Humanistic miscellany
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2055247
Description
- Title
- Humanistic miscellany
- Published / Created
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Publication Place
- Southern Germany
- Abstract
-
Manuscript on paper containing humanistic miscellany
- Description
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In Latin and German.
Script: copied by various hands writing either Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens or Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Currens.
Watermarks: Piccard, Waage V.135. Many blank leaves.
Headings in red in artt. 1-7; the planned initials in that section were not executed, except the first one (f. 1r, 3-line plain red initial); art. 8 is undecorated; paragraph marks, underlining and 2-line plain initials with guide letters, all in red, in the main section of art. 9. Pointing hands in artt. 1-5.
The manuscript contains: 1) Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 B.C.), Sententiae, as transmitted by Vincentius Bellovacensis (Vincent de Beauvais, d. c. 1264), Speculum historiale, 6.59. 2) Excerpts from Virgil (70-19 B.C.), followed by notes on this poet. 3) Excerpts from Horace (65-8 B.C.), followed by a note on this poet. 4) Excerpts from Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D.), in the order of the books of the various works. 5) Excerpts from Valerius Maximus (beginning of first century A.D.), Facta et dicta memorabilia, in the order of the books. 6) Laurentius Valla (1407-1457), Dialogi in Poggium, 1. Prologue. 7) Aeneas Sivius Piccolomini (1405-1464), Proverbiorum libellus, ed. Vienna, 1509. 8) Extensive collection of Latin (and one German) letter models and letter formulas without a clear order, addressed mostly to clerics or students. Mentioned are the necessity for students to dedicate themselves to study, the love of one's country, recommendations of persons, the death of the widow of the German King Albert II (d. 1439) and a peace treaty with Poland (f. 21v), a Diet, the Duke of Saxony and the barons (f. 24r), Bohemia (f. 30v). With (a) a German letter to a prince, in which the author promits to forward a message from the King of Bohemia to the King of the Romans (f. 21r); (b) a letter from Frederick III, King of the Romans (1440-1493), dated Wiener Neustadt ("in Nova Civitate"), 8 April 1443, dealing with Hungary, his young cousin Ladislaus (Posthumus), and calling for a meeting with the Hungarian representatives at or near Posen and another meeting in Hamburg (ff. 25r-26r); (c) a passionate letter from an astronomer against the reform of the calendar proposed by friar Herman of Münster at the Council of Basel (ff. 28v-30r). 9) Bibliographical notes on works by or related to St. Augustine (354-430), dealing briefly with Ps.-Augustinus (Cyprianus?), De XII abusionibus saeculi, Augustinus, Sermones de verbis Domini et de verbis apostoli (ff. 34v-35v) and Martinus Bracarensis, Formula vitae honestae (CPL 1080, f. 41r).
Binding: 19th - 20th century. Paper over cardboard. - Provenance
- Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund from Jörn Günther Antiquariat, Hamburg.
- Extent
- ff. 45 : 205 x 140 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 937
- Related Resource Online
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Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Council of Basel
- Subject (Topic)
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Church calendar
Classical literature
Latin letters
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Council of Basel (1431-1449)
Church calendar
Classical literature
Latin letters
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Germany > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Humanistic miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9885284
- Object ID (OID)
- 2055247
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