In addition to the Oratio, the manuscript contains: quotations from Plato, Plutarch, Pliny, St. Jerome, Aristotle; notes in Italian on painters in Padua (beginning with Giotto); a speech in Italian, dated Padua, January, 1556; Francesco Contarini, Dialogus; Lombardo della Seta, Epistula de dispositione sue vite ad celeberrimum vatem F. Petrarcham; a note on the office of the cardinal; Leonardo Bruni, Oratio funebris pro Nanni Strozza (Giovanni Strozzi), milite florentino; Poggio Bracciolini, Oratio in funere Francisci Zabarelle (Francesco Zabarella), cardinalis, florentini; Girolamo Maggi, Oratio pro D. Thadeo Quirino; Philippus [Arimineus], Symphosion de paupertate; Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron IV.1, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni, with dedication letter to Bindaccio Ricasoli; Giovanni Boccaccio, Novella di Griselda, translated into Latin by Petrarch; Francisco Petrarca, Note on Laura; Pietro Paolo Vergerio, Funeral orations for Francisco (Sr.) da Carrara; Pietro Paolo Vergerio, Vita Francisci Petrarcae; Leonardo Bruni, Dialogi ad Petrum Histrum. Manuscript, on paper, in humanist script, produced in Italy around 1500.
Alternative Title:
Oratio iuvenis licentiam sui necandi a iudicibus petentis, [circa 1500].
Description:
Arms on f. 4r with initials NI. HO., Binding: nineteenth-century brown calf., Ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 9627). Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., In Latin and Italian., Inscription on f. 3r: "Dultii Caesaris Patauini, Ordinis Minorum Conuentualium, No 486." The name Cesare Dultone also appears on f. 134v., Titles and marginalia (which note quotations from classical authors) are rubricated., and Watermark: tête de boeuf, similar to Briquet 14851.
Subject (Name):
Maggi, Girolamo,--d. 1572, Petrarca, Francesco,--1304-1374, Seta, Lombardo della, and Vergerio, Pietro Paolo,--1370-1444
Five manuscript charters, including land grants and indentures, produced in England between 1352 and 1599. On parchment in cursive charter hand, Chancery script, and Secretary script.
Description:
Ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 32220). Purchased and Four of the charters have partially or fully preserved wax seals.
Manuscript, on paper, in two secretary hands. The Roll of Battle Abbey, in English, on the first two pages, is followed by a chronicle of the kings of Britain from Noah to Edward IV. The text, in Latin, emphasizes the descent of the early kings from Brutus; the account of the life and reign of King Arthur contains details from Geoffrey of Monmouth's account as well as from the Mabinogion and from Nennius's Historia. The layout of the volume reflects the origin of the text in roll format; the descent of the kings and noble families after Edward I are outlined in the genealogical diagrams but without accompanying narrative text.
Description:
Almost entirely In Latin; Roll of Battle Abbey in English., Auction catalog description pasted onto front pastedown, with annotation concerning purchase at Sir Edward Coates' sale, Sotheby's July 9, 1923., Binding: seventeenth-century full calf, gilt ornament on covers, with the initials C. and F. in blind; remains of green silk ties., Bookplate: Fairfax of Cameron armorial bookplate., Decoration: in the Chronicle, names in genealogical charts in roundels with lines of descent in various colors; pen and ink illustrations of coats of arms and four drawings of cities, in color., Ex libris Charles Fairfax; ex libris Anthony Page, Fairfax of Cameron. From the collection of Sir Edward Coates. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 48 lines, incorporating genealogical charts., Ownership inscription of Charles Fairfax on front flyleaf., and Script: secretary script in two different hands.
Subject (Name):
Coates, Edward,--Sir,--1846-1921--Ownership., Fairfax of Cameron, Albert Fairfax,--Baron,--1870-1939--Bookplate., and Fairfax, Charles,--1597-1673--Autograph.
It also includes a charter granting lands from William I to Deorman., It includes a copy of the charter in Old English presented by William the Conqueror affirming the rights held by the citizens of London under Edward the Confessor., Manuscript, on parchment, in chancery script, produced in London at the beginning of the sixteenth century (during the reign of Henry VII)., and The text is an affirmation by King Henry VII of the rights given to the city of London by previous kings.
Description:
Binding: vellum wrapper., On the wrapper is written "Thomas Binkheued who sold it to Raph Wilbraham.", Purchased for the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection., and The manuscript was originally a roll, as can be seen by the sewing holes extending across the bottom of each page.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Kings and rulers, London (England)--Charters, grants, privileges, and London (England)--History
Manuscript on paper of Iacobus de Malvetiis (Jacopo Malvezzi, d. after 1432), Chronicon Brixianum. History of Brescia from its mythical foundation by Hercules up to 15 June 1332. With Prologue added ca. 1600.
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth century. Undecorated yellow parchment over pasteboard. On the spine dark red leather gold-tooled title label with inscription: “CRON. URB. BRIX. / PER MAG. JAC. / DE / MALVET. BRIX. / MS.” Below this label traces of an oval label. Endleaves in decorated paper printed with floral ornament in pink and gold., Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., ff. 145-192 blank, not digitized., Guide letters and spaces for 2-line initials (for a 3-line initial on f. 1r and in some other places) have been provided; no initials were executed., and Script: Art. 2 is copied by one hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Currens (Libraria on the first pages), s. XVIin. Art. 3 is by another hand writing the same type of script (Currens). Art. 1 is written in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria s. XVI/XVII, most headings in art. 2 by the same hand in less careful script.
Manuscript fragments on paper of 1) Final page of a violent invective against a pope (Paul II, 1464-1471, or more probably Alexander VI, 1492-1503) by a woman (repeatedly referring to herself as "ipsa") who had been badly treated by him; it is addressed to another woman. Here attributed to the humanist Filippo Buonaccorsi ("Callimachus"), born 1437 in San Gemignano, d. 1496, a member of the Accademia Romana, who was among the accused of a conjuration against the life of Pope Paul II and had to flee Italy. 2) Francesco Pietrasanta from Milan, De opibus Christianae religionis, a treatise against the wealth of the clergy, addressed to the theologian Filippo Maineri. 3) Two fragments of a history of Florence.
Description:
Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley, CA, MS 164., Script: Copied by two hands, both writing a similar Humanistica Cursiva under Gothic influence, Currens in artt. 1-2, Libraria in art. 3., Space and guide letters for 2-line initials on ff. 1v and 2r, respectively at the beginning of the prologue and of the text proper of art. 2., and The first quire (artt. 1-2) was originally most probably composed as follows: ff. 1 2 3 8 // 6 4 7 5. It now consists of a bifolium with parchment stay in its center (ff. 1-2), 4 singletons with stubs(ff. 3 8 6 7) and a singleton without stub (f. 5). What remains of quire II now consists of two singletons, ff. 9 (with stub) and 10 (with half of a parchment stay). Horizontal catch word right of the center on f. 5v.