Commentaria rerum graecarum

Description

Title: Commentaria rerum graecarum
Creator: Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
Published / Created: [between 1425 and ca. 1450]
Publication Place: Rome (?)
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Leonardo Bruni, Commentaria rerum graecarum (De principatu Graeciae), preceded by Bruni's letter to Angelo Acciaiuolo
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in round humanistic bookhand by two scribes who use somewhat different physical formats. Scribe I) ff. 1r-16r, written above top line, with initials for paragraphs set apart from the text between outer vertical bounding lines. Scribe 2) ff. 16v-26v, written below top line and leaving blank the final line of written space.
Two illuminated initials on ff. 1r and 2r, 5-line and 3-line, gold on blue, green and pale mauve ground with white vine-stem ornament and grey-green dots. On f. 1r vine-stem ornament on blue ground extends into inner margin (3-lines) to form partial border. Possibly by the same artist who executed the initials in Marston MS 257.
Binding: Twentieth century, Italy. Rigid vellum case with a green, gold-tooled label on spine: "L. Bruni De principatu graeciae. Sec. XV".
Provenance: Purchased from Hoepli of Milan in 1955 by L. C. Witten who sold it in the same year to Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. iii + i + 26 + i + iii : 258 x 184 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Greece
Subject (Name): Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval
History
Subjects: Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Greece > History
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Leonardo Bruni, Commentaria Rerum Graecarum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.