Manuscripts, Medieval -- Italy
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Medieval Manuscripts created in Italy.
Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:
La Guerra Punica, late 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 192
Scope and Contents
La Guerra Punica is a retelling of the first Punic War (264-241 BC) between Romans and Carthaginians. The author is Leonardo Bruni (c. 1370 - 1444), Italian humanist and historian, and one of the most prominent figures of the early Renaissance. He claims to have followed the account of ancient Latin and Greek authors; his story is particularly indebted to the Histories of the Greek historian Polybius....
Dates:
late 15th century
Liber Facetiarum by Poggio Bracciolini, 15th century
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Identifier: MS 204
Contents
This 15th-century Italian manuscript contains Poggio Bracciolini’s Liber Facetiarum or Facetiae. Poggio Bracciolini of Florence was a scholar and early humanist who was born in 1380 and died in 1459. His Liber Facetiarum is a collection of humorous or indecent tales.In this manuscript, this text is titled Poggii Florentini ac apostolici secretarii oratoris...
Dates:
15th century
Missal (Carthusian), second half of the 14th century
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Identifier: MS 53
Contents
The manuscript is an Italian Missal from the second half of the 14th century. A missal is a liturgical book containing all instructions and texts necessary for the celebration of Mass throughout the year. This specific manuscript is according to Carthusian Use.The Kalendar is from f.i to f.vi. It is missing January to April.The Proprium de Tempore starts on f.1r. The Proprium de Tempore comprises...
Dates:
second half of the 14th century
Missal (Franciscan), 14th century
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Identifier: MS 54
Contents
The manuscript is an Italian Missal from the 14th century. A missal is a liturgical book containing all instructions and texts necessary for the celebration of Mass throughout the year. This specific manuscript can be classified as Franciscan.A Miniature appears on f.1r.The Kalendar starts on f.2r. It is missing March to October.The Proprium de Tempore, Advent to Easter starts on f.4r. The ...
Dates:
14th century
MS MED 1.2: Athanasius; Vigilius Tapsensis., [undated]
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Scope and Contents
Composite volume. 130 numbered vellum pages. Neat humanistic script. Written space 150 x 90mm, 26 lines per page. f.1 features main intial, letter F in gold illumination, pink, green and blue, with a white interlaced vine and dots. Cupids hold a gold hoop in the lower margin.
Boards covered in a mottled, dyed vellum, with gold edges to text block. 'Mr Sargent's own' on front flyleaf. Written in Italy - potentially Florence. Described as MS 62 in Pettigrew's catalogue of the...
Dates:
[undated]
MS MED 1.4 Augustinus, Soliloquia; Preces, [undated]
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Scope and Contents
Composite volume. 83 numbered vellum pages. Small round fere-humanistica script, with ink lifting in places on flesh side of vellum. Written space 87 x 55mm, 30 lines per page. First initial is c.10 lines with blue, red, green and gold. Later initials are 1-3 lines, with combinations of blue, red, purple, green and gold. Contains some marginal notes in a second hand.
Blind tooled purple leather binding, with marbelled end papers. 'Manuscript of the XIV [14th] century' in pencil on...
Dates:
[undated]
New Testament and Wisdom Books [Bible. New Testament. Latin. Vulgate], 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 11
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the text of the New Testament according to the Vulgate. The four canonical Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles and the Book of Revelation are preceded by prologues. The prologues of the Gospels belong to the monarchian tradition, so called because it relates to the monarchian doctrine, which saw God as one person. They accompany several extant copies of the Vulgate, although their text is not derived from...
Dates:
14th century
New Testament [Bible. New Testament. Latin. Vulgate], 13th century
Item
Identifier: MS 10
Contents
The manuscript contains the New Testament. The text between Book of Revelation chapter 17, verse 8 to First Letter of Peter chapter 2, verse 13 is missing. The manuscript includes the apocryphal Letter to the Laodiceans (f. 253r). A letter written "to the Laodiceans" or "from Laodicea" (depending on the different interpretation of the Latin text) is mentioned in the ...
Dates:
13th century
Oratio in Die Cinerum by Giovanni Antonio Campani, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 97
Contents
This manuscript contains the Oratio in Die Cinerum, an oration for Ash Wednesday written by Giovanni Antonio Campani (1429-1477), a Neapolitan writer famous for his Latin poetry and orations. He held different offices in the Vatican and was close to Pope Pius II. A colophon on f. 19r indicates that this oration was read at the Palace of the Pope in Rome on the 3rd of March of 1462. A sale entry suggest that this very copy was presented to Pius...
Dates:
15th century
Ordinatio [incomplete] by John Duns Scotus, 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 116
Contents
This manuscript contains the first two books of John Duns Scotus’s Ordinatio or Opus Oxoniense. Duns Scotus (c. 1266 –1308) was Fransciscan and very influential Scholastic philosopher and theologian of the late Middle Ages, famous for his doctrines of the univocity of being and the haecceitas. The Ordinatio or Opus Oxoniense is...
Dates:
14th century