De bello italico adversus gothos

Description

Title: De bello italico adversus gothos
Creator: Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
Published / Created: [ca. 1450-65]
Publication Place: Florence
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Leonardo Bruni, De bello italico adversus gothos, in the Italian version by Ludovico Petroni made in 1456. Preceded by the letter of Leonardo Bruni to Giuliano Cardinal Cesarini (1398-1444).
Description: In Italian.
Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-gothic script, above top line.
Partial border in inner margin of white vine-stem ornament, f. 1r, on blue, green and pink ground with white and blue dots. In lower border terminals extending in ink hair spray with green, pink and blue flowers and gold balls frame central medallion with a crude outline drawing of a head in profile (later addition?). Two decorated initials, 4- to 3-line, gold on blue, pink and green grounds with white vine-stem ornament. On f. 1r initial joined to partial border. Heading on f. 1r in red.
Binding: 18th-19th centuries, Italy. "Alla rustica" with grey-green paper added over the spine and part of the boards. Edges yellow.
Provenance: Acquired from C. A. Stonehill in 1949 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. i + 82 + i : 257 x 160 (143 x 96) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Rome
Subject (Name): Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444.
Cesarini, Giuliano, Cardinal, 1398-1444.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Italian literature
Literature, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
History
Subjects: Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
Cesarini, Giuliano, Cardinal, 1398-1444
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Italian literature > 15th century
Literature, Medieval > Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Rome > History
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Leonardo Bruni, De Bello Italico Adversus Gothos. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.