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Book/Printed Material Collection of Speeches and Latin Epistles by Renaissance Humanists. Orationes et epistulae

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Title

  • Collection of Speeches and Latin Epistles by Renaissance Humanists.

Other Title

  • Orationes et epistulae

Summary

  • This manuscript, dating to the late-15th century, formerly belonged to the Sienese Alessandro Tegliacci, as stated in a note written on the initial page by an unknown later owner: "Dedit mihi Alex(ande)r Tegliaccius die(?) 8 decembris 1581 atque sua humanitate donavit" (Alessandro Tegliacci kindly gave this to me as a gift on December 8, 1581). The decoration on the same leaf bears the coat of arms of the Tegliacci family. Alessandro can perhaps be identified as the scholar who was called by Cosimo II to be professor of humanities of the Studio (university) of Siena in 1609. The manuscript is comprised of a collection of speeches and Latin epistles by several Renaissance humanists: Oratio ad pontificem Nicolaum V by Giannozzo Manetti (folios 49--58r); other orations addressed to the same recipient by Poggio Bracciolini (folios 58v--66v) and Francesco Micheli del Padovano (folios 66v--71v); Oratiuncula ad Martinum V by Leonardo Bruni; and Florentinorum epistula ad imperatorem Federicum III and Florentinorum epistula ad Concilium Basiliense (folios 74r--79v). The manuscript is bound in a composite codex that gathers together five manuscripts of different ages (dating from the end of the 13th century to circa 1521) and provenance, and which are also dissimilar in layout, graphic style, and format.

Names

  • Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459 Contributor.
  • Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444 Contributor.
  • Manetti, Giannozzo, 1396-1459 Contributor.
  • Micheli del Padovano, Francesco, circa 1396 or 7-after 1480 Contributor.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1450 to 1500]

Headings

  • -  Italy
  • -  1450 to 1499
  • -  Codex
  • -  Correspondence
  • -  Illuminations
  • -  Letters
  • -  Literature, Medieval
  • -  Speeches

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Shelfmark: ms. H.VI.31[2]"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 32 folios : parchment with illuminations ; 200 x 133 millimeters.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: Biblioteca comunale degli Intronati, The Biblioteca comunale degli Intronati for The James Madison Council: manuscripts, incunables, drawings and prints (Siena: 2011).
  • -  Original resource at: Municipal Library Intronati.
  • -  Content in Latin.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Illuminated Manuscripts from Europe

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667842

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Bracciolini, Poggio, Contributor, Leonardo Bruni, Giannozzo Manetti, and Francesco Micheli Del Padovano. Collection of Speeches and Latin Epistles by Renaissance Humanists. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1500, 1450] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667842/.

APA citation style:

Bracciolini, P., Bruni, L., Manetti, G. & Micheli Del Padovano, F. (1450) Collection of Speeches and Latin Epistles by Renaissance Humanists. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1500] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667842/.

MLA citation style:

Bracciolini, Poggio, Contributor, et al. Collection of Speeches and Latin Epistles by Renaissance Humanists. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1500, 1450] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667842/>.