De miseria conditionis humanae (DS16547) (Q69334)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Bryn Mawr College (MS 47, MS 47, https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS47.html)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | De miseria conditionis humanae (DS16547) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Bryn Mawr College (MS 47, MS 47, https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS47.html) |
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Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459
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Gordon, Phyllis Goodhart
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Gordan, John Dozier Jr.
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1455-1499
15. century
1455Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: ii+ 48+ii; 255 x 207 mm bound to 261 x 218 mm; paper
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Previously called Gordan MS 50
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Binding: Modern paper boards, leather spine, stamped in gold: POGGIO/ DE/ MISERIA. Restored by J. MacDonald Co. East Norwalk, Conn.
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Layout: Single column of twenty-nine lines; ruled in hardpoint with vertical bounding lines full length; written area: 145 x 111 mm
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Script: Humanistic
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Decoration: One four-line red penwork initial with elaborate black penwork extensions stretching along the inner margin appears on fol. 1r, and on 28r a similar, but slightly less elaborate, three-line initial begins Book 2; on fol. 2v space for initial left unfilled; marginalia throughout
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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. 399, no. 50.
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Related resource: Bond, W. H. Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962. p. 351, no. 50.
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Related resource: Bracciolini, Poggius. De miseria. R. Fubini, ed., Opera omnia I (Torino, 1964) 86-131.
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Provenance: Written in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century; early provenance unknown; in the library of Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (bookplate) and John Dozier Gordan, Jr.; her bequest to Bryn Mawr College in 1995
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14 February 2025
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14 February 2025
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