Fifteenth Century (dates CE)

Abstract

This is a late fifteenth-century Italian manuscript of Poggio Bracciolini's De miseria conditionis humanae (usually called De miseria humanae conditionis). The work is a type of socratic reflection, inspired by the sack of Constantinople, which Bracciolini wrote in his retirement in Florence.

Abstract

This manuscript of the late twelfth-century text De miseria conditionis humanae was produced in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century. The author of the work was the cardinal Lotario dei Segni, who later became Pope Innocent III. This copy is written on paper in a Gothic cursive script, with red and blue initials.

Abstract This humanistic manuscript was copied on parchment in Italy in the mid-fifteenth century. The first four works are three letters of Poggio Bracciolini, including one on nobility and one against avarice, and a poem by Carlo Marsuppino (Aretino) on nobility; these share a page layout, illuminated initials, and marginal notes of proper names in red. Three brief letters by Petrarch and an Easter table have been added at the end (fols. 103v-114r) and have spaces left for illuminated initials....

Abstract

Table of contents: Marci Tulii Ciceronis eloquentissimi officiorum. Liber primus Incipit feliciter; Meditationes ad Ipsum. . .; World chronicle written the same hand as article 2.

Abstract

Table of contents: M. T. C. De Officiis Liber Primus Feliciter Incipit; Unidentified paragraph on natural law.

Abstract ff. 1r-120v [Heading:] Incipit Liber Primus T. C. de Oratore ad Quintum Fratrem.Inc.: Cogitanti mihi sepe numero ac memoria vetera repetenti, per beati fuisse, Quinte frater frater [sic] illi videri solent, qui in optima re publica, cum ex honoribus et rerum gestarum gloria florerent, eum uite cursum tenere potuerunt, vt uel in negotio sine periculo, uel in otio cum dignitate esse possent.Expl.: Nam cum sint numeri plures plures [sic] iam et trocheum frequenter...

Abstract

This is a Northern Italian manuscript from the second quarter of the fifteenth century, which contains Gaspare da Verona's De temporibus pauli II, liber V.

Abstract Table of contents: Qui se comença lo libro della patientia. el quale se chiama medicina del core. Nel quale se contengono li rimedii contra le tribulationi e Le Tribulationi e le desperatione. Liquali Remedii fortifica lanima deuota ad resistere contra epate e meritare uita eterna; preface; table of chapters for Book I; chapter 1, A detestatione et biasmo dell ira; chapter 2, Como la patientia ene grande Victoria et singnioria et como per tre Rasuini li sancti seglorano nelle tribulatinni....

Abstract

ff. 1r-3r [Heading in upper margin in a 17th century hand:] Table des Chapitres de chemin de Paradis de l’Eveque de chalons sur Saone Jehan de Souhan 1456. ff. 4r-169r [Prologue:] Iehan Germain par la grace de dieu Euesque de chalon sur la saone maistre en theologie a paris: A nos tres chiers freres en ihesu crist et cooperateurs a la conduite de nos subgetz les doyen archediacres chanoynes de notre eglise les curez vicaires et autres nos enfans espirituelz de notre dicte eueschie salut.

Abstract ff. 1r-2v [Title in upper margin:] Priulegium Ciuitatis bononieInc: In Christi Nomine Amen. Anno a natiuitate domini Quadrigentesimo uigesimo tercio. Incaepit imperare Theodosius minor et imperauit viginti sex annis. Theodosius dei gratia Romanorum Imperator semper augustus in imperio constitutus a theodosio suo Patruo qui per potentiam imperium acquisiuit.Expl.: Si quis autem tam audax forte extiterit qui huic nostre sententie non satisfecerit presenti Anno vita...