Epistolarum Domini Leonardi liber primus incipit : manuscript, [ca. 1440]
- Title
- Epistolarum Domini Leonardi liber primus incipit : manuscript, [ca. 1440]
Alternative Title: Epistulae familiares
Alternative Title: Phillipps MS 862 - Creator / Contributor
- Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
- Place of Origin
- Italy
- Date
- 1440
- Language
- Latin
- Description
- Extent: III, 100, II leaves, bound : vellum ; 35 cm.
print - Abstract
- The ms. originally contained 8 books, but the end is lost and it now ends with Book 7 on f. 98. The following leaf in the original ms. was moved and is now f. 94.
- Genre
- letter
Manuscripts, Renaissance-Italy-1400-1450. - Notes
- Written in a round humanistic minuscule in brown ink by an unknown scribe. The first page has an illuminated border, and the initial letters of the books are also illuminated in the white-vine style. The artist was perhaps Filippo Torelli.
18th-century French binding in brown morocco, gilt.
"Vespasianus librarius Florentinus vendidit" - f. 100r.
In a tray case,36 cm.
MS Typ 9. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Also available in an electronic version.
Microfilm available in the Houghton Reading Room (reel 25 no.4). - Series
- Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
- Repository
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
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