Historia florentina

Description

Title: Historia florentina
Creator: Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459
Contributor: Bracciolini, Jacopo, 1441-1478.
Published / Created: 1475.
Publication Place: Italy (Florence)
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (lightly burnished) of Poggio Bracciolini, Historia Florentina, translated into Italian by his son Jacopo. With Prefatory letter of Jacopo di Poggio to Federico da Montefeltro
Description: In Italian.
Watermarks: similar to Briquet Chapeau 3387.
Script: Written in sloping humanistic bookhand with cursive elements.
Illuminated initial in gold, f. 1r, 10-line, infilled and surrounded by flowers in rose and blue (yellow centers), rayed gold discs, winding green stems and leaves, and hair-line decoration. Gold initial, f. 3r, 6-line, on ground composed of blue, green, and rose panels, all decorated with gold scroll designs. Headings in red rustic capitals.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Diced brown calf spine, blind- and gold-tooled, with Strozzi arms and "Poggio istoria tradotta da Iacopo suo figlio" and "M. S. Cartaceo del S. XV". Blue and white decorated paper sides.
Provenance: Purchased from Davis and Orioli in 1963 by L. C. Witten from whom it was acquired, 22 April 1964, with funds from Edwin J. Beinecke and the Albert H. Childs Fund.
Extent: ff. i + 140 + i : 336 x 235 (225 x 126) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Florence (Italy)
Subject (Name): Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Italian literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
History
Subjects: Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Italian literature > 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Florence (Italy) > History
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Poggio Bracciolini, Historia Florentina. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.