Manuscript of a collection of humanist texts, including 1) Ghigo Brunelleschi (c. 1353-c. 1410) and Domenico da Prato (c. 1389-1432/1433), Geta e Birria. 2) Nicolaus Perottus (Niccolò Perotti, 1429-1480), Latin translation of the Oath of Hippocrates,...
Description:
In Latin and Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459., Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444., Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D., Perotti, Niccolò, 1430-1480., Persius., and Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
"Portrait of Giovanni Volpato, half-length, facing front, wearing cravat and felt hat; after Kauffman; closed letter state."--British Museum online catalogue
Manuscript on parchment (speckled) of George of Trebizond, Isagoge dialectica. With Extracts from Aristotle, De sophisticis elenchis, in an unidentified Latin translation; logical and syllogistic diagrams; Martinus Phileticus (ca. 1430-ca. 1490), 14-l...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle., Federico, da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, 1422-1482., and George, of Trebizond, 1396-1486.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Logic, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Rhetoric
Manuscript on parchment (speckled on hair side) of Greek works translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni: 1) Demosthenes, Olynthica tertia. 2) Aeschines, Epistola senatui populoque Atheniensi. 3) Anaximenes of Lampsacus, Epistola Philippi ad Athenienses...
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Plato, Phaedo, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni and preceded by his prefatory letter to Pope Innocent VII. 2) Xenophon, Hiero (Tyrannus), translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni and preceded by his prefatory letter...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hieron I, Tyrant of Syracuse, -467 B.C. or 466 B.C., Innocent VII, Pope, 1336-1406., Niccoli, Niccolò, approximately 1364-1437., and Plato.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Dialogues, Greek, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Philosophy, Ancient