Fifteenth Century (dates CE)

Abstract Table of contents: Three unidentified capitula lacking first initial and rubrication; Three capitula, one each for: prime at feasts during Advent, Quadragesima, Sundays, and the Vigil of the Nativity; feasts outside of Advent and Quadragesima; and private feasts; Prayers and antiphons for Prime for these feasts; a capitulum for other feasts during the week; a capitulum for miscellaneous Sundays, followed by more prayers and antiphons; Psalms and antiphons for Prime, Monday through Saturday;...

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ff. 1r-44v Theodorou grammatikeis eisagogeis ton eis tessara to proton. Book One, Grammatikes Eisagoges;Theodoros Gazes (Venice, 1495).

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A collection of epigrams, usually in elegiac couplets, concerning Patrizi's friends, family, political matters, and verses inspired by classical authors.

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Table of contents: Leonardi Aretini ad Cosmam medicum florentinum Platonis epistole feliciter incipiunt; Leonardi Aretini ad Inocentium Septimum Pontificem maximum in translatone sedonis prohemium Feliciter Incipit; Leonardi Aretini Moralis Discipline Isagogicon ad Galiotum [sic] Ricasolanum.

Abstract This is a mid-fifteenth century Italian manuscript, which contains various letters from Cicero or Pseudo-Cicero; two unidentified homilies; an index of Petrarch's sonnets, Petrarch's Canzoniere, poems 5 and 4 from his Rime disperse, and his Trionfi; and Pseudo-Seneca's De remediis fortuitorum bonorum liber. The scribe is identified as Petrus de Carbonibus, whose colophons recur frequently throughout the work and his son, Leonardus, who wrote the last leaf in Castro Massignani on 31 May...

Abstract Table of contents: Francisci Aretini in phalaridis tyranni Agrigentini epistolas ad Illustrissimum principum malatestam nouellum; Epistolarum Bruti per dominum Ranuntium e greco in latinum traductarum ad sanctissimum dominum nostrum papam Nicolaum papam quintum prohemium; Ad sanctissimum et clementissimum patrem et dominum domini Pium secundum pontificem maximum in diogenis philosophi epistolas francisci Aretini prefacio; Unidentified treatise on the administration of justice from a...

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This is a mid-fifteenth northern Italian manuscript, which contains nine books of letters by Leonardo Bruni.

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This is a humanistic manuscript of letters by Leonardo Bruni, with one letter of Coluccio Salutati to Innocent VIII (fols. 2v-3v), copied in Italy in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. The lower margin has been cut away from over half of the leaves, with no loss of text. Multiple readers have added notes and manicules in the margins.

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This is an Italian manuscript from the second half of the fifteenth century, which contains: Pseudo-Eusebius' Epistola de morte Hieronomi ad Damasium; Pseudo-Augustine's Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi ad Cyrillum; Pseudo-Cyrillus' Epistola ad beatum Augustinum de miraculis Hieronymi; Sulpicius Severus' De vita beati Martini, his Tituli metrici de Santo Martino, and his Dialogus I-III; Gregory of Tours' Narrationes in obitu et de prima translatione; and Vita Sancti Zenonis.

Abstract This is an exceptionally interesting collection of texts by Saint Jerome, still in its original binding and signed and dated at numerous intervals by the scribe, Johannes Tyrolf, providing valuable evidence on how fast scribes wrote. Tyrolf signed at least five other manuscripts. It includes unpublished marginal comments, as well as an original subject index, copied by the main scribe in a formal hand and could be an invaluable source for studies of the reception of Jerome’s works, as well...