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| Genre/Form: | decorated initials Illuminations (painting) Early works Manuscripts Early works to 1800 Ouvrages avant 1800 |
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| Material Type: | Manuscript |
| Document Type: | Book, Archival Material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Poggio Bracciolini; Leonardo Bruni |
| Language Note: | In Latin. |
| OCLC Number: | 36907727 |
| Notes: | Spine title. Spine title possibly stands for: Cursus philosophiae moralis. Manuscript (handwritten). Consists of 77 parchment folios, originally larger than the current 21.5 cm x 13.5 cm, as indicated by marginal notes cut off at the fore-edges. Script in more than one hand. First, second and fourth texts written in a fine Humanistic book script, while the third text is written in a cursive hand. The first, second and fourth texts have humanist illuminated white-vine initials with blue, red, and green infiliing. Bound in 18th century mottled calf over boards. Sewn on 5 cords; raised bands on spine with six compartments. Title in gilt on second compartment; blind-stamped floral decoration in the other compartments. All edges spattered red. Coat of arms of previous owner(s?) have been erased from the first and last pages. |
| Reproduction Notes: | Microfilm. [Seattle, Wash. : Filmed for the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections and Preservation Division by Alpha Information Management, Inc.], 1997. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. |
| Description: | 154 unnumbered pages : parchment ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | Rem minime probatam vulgo, et quae haud persuaderi nisi admodum paucis queat ... / [Poggio Bracciolini] -- Si ut vivendi Galeotte sic etiam bene vivendi cura nobis esset ... / [Leonardo Bruni] -- [A]nno a nativitate d[omi]ni cccc. xxiij incepit ... / [attributed to the Emperor Theodosius II] -- Collegi ea que multis modis dice rentur quo uberior promptiorque esset oratio / [attributed to Marcus Tullius Cicero] |
| Other Titles: | Cursus philosophiae moralis Diploma suppositicium Theodosii minoris Augusti, per quod Gymnasium Bononiense institutum ab eo fertur, anno Christi 433. Synonyma Ciceronis (Abditum, opertum) |
Abstract:
Consists of four manuscripts. The first is the De infelicitate principum of Poggio Bracciolini, and is an imaginary dialogue among the Florentine humanists Niccolò Niccoli, Carlo Marsuppini, and Cosimo de Medici. It touches on questions of political philosophy. The second manuscript is the Isagogicon moralis disciplinae of Leonardo Bruni. It is a compendium of moral philosophy which formed the foundations of Florentine civic humanism. The third manuscript is attributed to Emperor Theodosius II and is a fabricated charter of the University of Bologna to show that the city had been selected as a center of learning. The charter contributed to the origin myth of the university. The fourth manuscript is one of several medieval collections of Latin synonyms spuriously ascribed to Marcus Tullius Cicero, or to the apocryphal Cicero Victurius.
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