Humanistic miscellany

Description

Title: Humanistic miscellany
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1500]
Publication Place: Northern Italy
Abstract: Manuscript fragments on paper of humanistic miscellany
Description: In Latin.
Script: copied by two hands, both writing a similar Humanistica Cursiva under Gothic influence, Currens in artt. 1-2, Libraria in art. 3.
Space and guide letters for 2-line initials on ff. 1v and 2r, respectively at the beginning of the prologue and of the text proper of art. 2.
The manuscript contains: 1) Final page of a violent invective against a pope (Paul II, 1464-1471, or more probably Alexander VI, 1492-1503) by a woman (repeatedly referring to herself as "ipsa") who had been badly treated by him; it is addressed to another woman. Here attributed to the humanist Filippo Buonaccorsi ("Callimachus"), born 1437 in San Gemignano, d. 1496, a member of the Accademia Romana, who was among the accused of a conjuration against the life of Pope Paul II and had to flee Italy. 2) Francesco Pietrasanta from Milan, De opibus Christianae religionis, a treatise against the wealth of the clergy, addressed to the theologian Filippo Maineri. 3) Two fragments of a history of Florence.
Provenance: Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley, CA, MS 164.
Extent: ff. 10 : 290 x 215 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Florence (Italy)
Subject (Name): Alexander VI, Pope, 1431-1503.
Paul II, Pope, 1417-1471.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
History
Subjects: Alexander VI, Pope, 1431-1503
Paul II, Pope, 1417-1471
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Florence (Italy) > History
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Humanistic Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.