Manuscript on paper of 1) Leonardo Bruni, La prima guerra punica, in an anonymous Italian translation. 2) Leonardo Bruni, Vita di Dante. 3) Leonardo Bruni, Vita di Francesco Petrarca
Description:
In Italian., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Monts 11684., Script: Written by two scribes: ff. 1r-51v in humanistic semi-cursive script, above top line; ff. 51v-59v in fere-humanistic script, above top line., Decoration of poor quality: 12-line divided initial in red and blue, f. 1r; 5-line blue initial with red penwork decoration, f. 51v; 5-line divided initial red and blue, f. 51r. Plain red and blue initials, 4- to 3-line, alternate throughout. Headings in bright red., and Binding: Twentieth century, England (?). Hard-grained, brown leather case. Gold-tooled title and date on spine: "L. Bruni Guerra Punica/ Vite di Dante e Petrarca/ MS. Sec. XV". Bright blue marbled edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444., Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321., and Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Punic wars
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Dante Alighieri, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata. 2) Bosone de' Raffaelli da Gubbio, "Capitolo" on the Divine Comedy, in 64 terzine. 3) Iacopo Alighieri, "Divisione" of the Divine Comedy in 50 terzine (thus of the B group).
Description:
In Italian., Script: Written in round gothic script., Very fine initials and borders. Three historiated initials, each with a personification with attributes. Each initial with a full border of fleshy acanthus, blue, orange, olive green, pink, grey and gold, with tooling; birds in lower margin of ff. 1r and 54r; on f. 1r a coat-of-arms, in lower margin: azure, a chevron or, between two roses in chief argent, a mount of 6 in base argent, probably of the Bini family, Florence. 3-line initials, red or blue, with mauve or red penwork with long intricate flourishes often extending the length of the page. Opening text of Inferno adjacent to the initial of f. 1r in display capitals with penwork panels in brown ink. Capitals on the beginning of each stanza stroked in yellow. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Sewn on five double supports attached to wooden boards. The spine is square with well defined bands and red and green endbands. Covered in dark brown goatskin, blind-tooled in mudejar style in two sets of concentric frames; DO.IOAN.DE gold-tooled in the center of one, BORGA in the other. Trace of two fastenings. Gilt edges. Restored.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. and Dominicans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Manuscript on paper containing (1) A short commentary on Matthew 23:2, against those who wrongly interpret the Scriptures and against simoniacs; (2) Simone Fidati da Cascia, L'ordine della vita cristiana; (3) Italian poetry: sonnet attributed to Dante; sonnet attributed to Petrarch; Dante, Divina Commedia, Inferno 34.1-12; sonnet by Antonio Pucci (often attributed to Domenico di Giovanni, called Burchiello), Carboni, Incipitario, 785
Description:
In Italian., Script: art. 1, gothica cursiva libraria. Art. 2, cancelleresca. The scribe Agniolo Donati is unrecorded. Art. 3, rapid gothica cursiva libraria/currens., Decoration: art. 2, 2- or 3-line plain initials in the same colour, with guide letters; some initials have a slight penwork decoration; rubrication. Remaining texts not decorated., Binding: early quarter binding, undecorated leather and beech boards. Spine with three raised bands and remnants of a printed paper title label: "[Tr]attato / della Vit[a] / Cristian[a] / di F. / Simone / da Casci[a]". Remnants of one clasp, attached to the rear board. On the front board the large 18th century (?) pressmark written in black ink "25.", and Original foliation in Arabic numerals. Quires strengthened at inner and outer sides by means of parchments stays, cut from an erased manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321., Petrarch, 1304-1374., Pucci, Antonio, approximately 1310-1388., and Simone Fidati, da Cascia, -1348.
Subject (Topic):
Italian poetry, Christian literature, Italian, and Manuscripts, Medieval
On the left, in profile looking left, the head and shoulders of a man with a laurel wreath around his head, probably Dante. On the right the head and shoulders of a man with a tonsure and a friar's habit, possibly Thomas Aquinas
Description:
Title devised by curator. and Approximate date assigned by curator.
Subject (Name):
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, and Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274,
