Oratio in laudem rei publicae venetorum; Vita caroli magni, etc. (DS16540) (Q69313)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Bryn Mawr College (MS 40, MS 40, https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS40.html)
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| English | Oratio in laudem rei publicae venetorum; Vita caroli magni, etc. (DS16540) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Bryn Mawr College (MS 40, MS 40, https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS40.html) |
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Oratio in laudem rei publicae venetorum; Vita caroli magni, etc.
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Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459
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Einhard, approximately 770-840
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Canonici, Matteo Luigi 1727-1805
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Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888
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Gordan, Phyllis Walter Goodhart
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Gordan, John D., 1907-1968
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1400-1499
15. century
1400Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: iii+71+ii; 147 x 105 mm bound to 154 x 107mm; parchment
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Formerly numbered Gordan MS 149
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Portions of the text on 70r-v illegible due to staining
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First two front flyleaves paper, third flyleaf contemporary parchment added to first quire; fol. 71 is another contemporary parchment flyleaf added to last quire, followed by two paper flyleaves
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Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf with gold tooling on covers and spine; on small dark brown panel on spine: Poggii/ Oratio/ Vita C. M./ Cod. M.
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Layout: Single column written in twenty lines, ruled with single vertical bounding lines in lead; paragraphs marked by initial outside the written area; written area: 90 x 65 mm
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Script: Humanistic
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Script: Scribe: Giovanni di Ubaldino deli Stagnesi (Matthew Tischler, Einharts "Vita Karoli," vol. 2, 1484–1496)
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Decoration: Two three-quarter white-vine borders with five-line and six-line gold initials (fols. 1r, 25r); two gold initials with white-vine extensions (fol. 27v, fol. 66v); rubricated in red
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Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 399-400, no. 54.
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Related resource: Kristeller, P.O., Iter Italicum; a finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries (London, 1963-97), vol. 5, p. 351, no. 149.
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Related resource: Tischler, Matthias M., Einharts "Vita Karoli": Studien zur Entstehung, Überlieferung und Rezeption (Hannover: Hahnsche, 2001) vol. 2, p. 1484-1496.
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Provenance: Written in northern Italy during the fifteenth century; coat of arms on fol. 1r suggests that the first owner was probably a member of the Venetian Bembo family as does the bookplate of Walter Sneyd, who in 1835 bought the remainder of the collection of the Venetian Abate Matteo Luigi Canonici; Sneyd's sale (16 Dec. 1903?); on first flyleaf recto in lead: "1931 cat./121" and "349...
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14 February 2025
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14 February 2025
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