Fifteenth Century (dates CE)

Abstract Auli gelii noctium atticarum primi comentarii extracta quodam sequuntur Curus initium est. Primo de Ingenio~pithagore sollertia exempla ponitInc: Plutarchus in libro quem scripit: Quantii inter homines fuit animi corporisque ingenio atque virtutibus inter sit. conscripsit scite subtiliterque ratiocinatum.Expl.: Tum contio universa que ad sentenciam de scipione ferenda conuenerat relicto Tribuno Scipionem in capitolio comitata atque inde ad edes eius cum letitia et...

Abstract This manuscript is a humanistic miscellany written in northern Italy in the fifteenth century. The volume contains three texts: Poggio Bracciolini, In laudem rei publicae Venetorum (fols. 1r-23v); Einhard, Vita Excellentissimi Imperatoris Magni Caroli (fols. 25r-66r); Alcuin, Confessio [for Charlemagne] (fols. 66v-70v). The beginning of each text is marked by white-vine illumination; the coat of arms on the first page suggests original ownership by a member of the Bembo family of Venice. The...

Abstract This fifteenth-century Italian manuscript contains six texts: Giannozzo Manetti, Oration to Nicholas V (fols. 1r-10v); Poggio Bracciolini, oratio ad summum pontificem Nicolaum V (fols. 11r-19r); Franciscus de Padua de Florentia, Letter to Nicholas V (fols. 19r-24r); Leonardo Bruni, Oratiuncula ad Martinum V (fols. 24r-26r); Leonardo Bruni, State Letter for the Commune of Florence to the Emperor (fols. 26v-27v); Leonardo Bruni, State letter for the Commune of Florence to the Council of Basel...

Abstract ff. 1r-53v [Text imperfect, begins at line 80:] Ost [sic] opere prime quo limite debeat ordo/ Currere. cuncta sequens omni pensare statura/ Pondera, sinistre pendet sententia. . . Si mediocris ama mediocria. Sumere noli/ Que quando sumus presimus [sic] in omnibus una// [text breaks off at line 298 at the bottom of f. 6v and resumes on f. 7r at line 369:] //Indefensa modo gestu restare dolorem/ Exundent celi lacrimas ex terminet ora. . .Expl.: Set licet omnis apex tibi crescat...

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Table of contents: Marcus Tullius Cicero oratio pro Archia poeta, Marcus Tullius Cicero oratio pro Deotaro rege [crossed out and added in a different hand: Marco Marcello] ad senatum habita, Pro Q. Ligario, Invectiva Salustii contra Ciceronem, Marcus Tullius Cicero Opusculum vel epistola de regimine proconsulatus ad Quintum fratrem incipit.

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This is a Northern French processional for the use of the Dominican nuns of Poissy from the second half of the fifteenth century. It contains various Latin processional texts with accompanying rubrics and chant notation.

Abstract This manuscript contains a mid-fifteenth century French book of hours.Table of contents: Text obliterated from f. 1r. Gospel Pericopes; Obsecro te... [masculine forms; Leroquais, LH 2.346-47] begins and ends imperfectly; Hours of the Virgin, use uncertain; Suffrages to the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter, and Nicholas; Resumption of the Hours of the Virgin; Penitential Psalms, beginning in middle of the first Psalm; Litany of the Saints; Short Hours of...

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This manuscript contains a mid-fifteenth century Book of Hours.

Table of contents: Calendar of Bruges; Short Hours of the Holy Cross; Short Hours of the Holy Spirit; Mass of the Virgin, use of Rome; Obsecro te... [masculine forms; Leroquais LH 2.346-47]; Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome; Penitential Psalms and Litany; Office of the Dead, use of Rome, only one Nocturn; Suffrage to St. Sebastian.

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ff. 1r-55r Inc.: Actiuum verbum est quod in o finitum format passiuum in or ut lego legor amo amor licet non sit in usu dor plurimum uerba actiua possunt. . . Expl.: Similiter bis adde ficus ficus et ficus fici quod nomen in quacunque declinatione et genere foeminino tam arborem quam fructum significat. Finis. [added in a later hand: Regularum Gasparensis] [colophon:] I. F. de arzignano 1463. f. 55v ruled but blank.

Abstract De ratione dicendi ad C. Herennium, missing text from Book 4. Text breaks off at bottom of f. 46v: Quibus liberi sunt statuite exemplum quante pene sint in ciuitate hominibus huiusmodi conparate//, and resumes at the top of f. 48r: haec exornatio cui licentiae nomen est sicuti demonstrauimus duplici ratione tractabitur. . . The text breaks off again at the bottom of f. 48v: [D]ivisio est que rem semouens a re utramque absoluit ratione subiecta hoc modo. Cur//, and resumes on 50r with:...