Manicules

Abstract

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.

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 It includes unpublished marginal comments, as well as an original subject index, copied by the main scribe in a formal hand and could be an invaluable source for studies of the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...