Anthology. of humanist texts : manuscript, [between 1425 and 1500]
- Title
- Anthology. of humanist texts : manuscript, [between 1425 and 1500]
Alternative Title: Phillipps MS 6748 - Place of Origin
- Italy
- Language
- Latin
- Description
- Extent: 114 leaves, bound : vellum ; 21 cm.
print - Subjects
- Greek literature--Translations into Latin
Latin literature--Early works to 1800 - Abstract
- 1. Table of contents (f. 4v) -- 2. Rinuccio Aretino da Castiglione's De decretis Atheniensium, dedicated to Poggio Bracciolini (5r-18r) -- 3. Anaximenes of Lampsacus' Epistola ad Athenienses, translated by Leonardo Bruni Aretino (19r-24r) -- 4. Aeschines' Epistola senatui populoque Atheniensi, translated by Leonardo Bruni Aretino (24r-26v) -- 5. Suetonius' (or Donatus) Vita Virgilii (26v-32r) -- 6. Pseudo-Aeschines' (Pietro Marcello?) Eschinis oratoris ad Athenienses oratio (32r-v) -- 7. Pseudo-Demades' (Pietro Marcello?) Demadis oratoris ad Athenienses contio (32v-33r) -- 8. Pseudo-Demosthenes' (Pietro Marcello?) Demosthenis oratoris ad Athenienses contio (33r-v)-- 9. Pseudo-Demosthenes' (Pietro Marcello?) Demosthenis ad Alexandrum macedonie regem epistola (33v-35v) -- 10. Tacitus' De origine et situ Germanorum liber [Germania] (36r-55r) -- 11. St. Basil the Great's Oratio ad adolescentes, translated by Leonardo Bruni Aretino [Address to young men] (55v-69v) -- 12. Xenophon's Libellus de tyranno, translated by Leonardo Bruni Aretino (69v-86v) -- 13. Pseudo-Petrarch's (Benvenuto Rambaldi da Imola) Liber Augustalis (86v-108v) -- 14. Palladius' De insitione liber (108v-113r) -- 15. Ovid's Cedippe Acontio Heroidum Ovidii ultima epistola (Heroides) (113v-116v).
- Genre
- Manuscripts, Medieval-Italy-1400-1450.
Manuscripts, Medieval-Italy-1450-1500.
Manuscripts, Renaissance-Italy-1400-1450.
Manuscripts, Renaissance-Italy-1450-1500.
Rules (layout features)
Ribbon markers.
Hairside.
Straps (fasteners)
Early works to 1800 - Notes
- Article 2 was transcribed in a humanist script by an unidentified copyist in Florence between 1425 and 1450, while the remaining articles were transcribed in a humanist script in Florence by Jacopo di Poggio Bracciolini, probably after 1471.
In a 15th-cent. Italian brown leather binding with blind tooling and five brass bosses on front and back, gilt edges.
In a protective tray case, 22 cm.
MS Lat 124. Houghton Library, Harvard University. - Series
- Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
- Repository
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
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