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Container Reference (shelfmark) Burney MS Language Latin Name Bruni, Leonardo, Italian humanist, 1370-1444, http://isni.org/isni/000000...

1. Burney MS 74

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 74
Title:
Letters and Orations of Demosthenes, Aeschines, Plato, Philip II of Macedon, and Dion, translated by Leonardo Bruni, with prefaces
Scope & Content:
Letters and Orations of Demosthenes, Aeschines, Plato, Philip II of Macedon, and Dion, translated by Leonardo Bruni, with prefaces. Vertical catchwords. Decoration: 1 large gold initial on a blue and red ground, with sprays of foliage in the margin. Large puzzle initials in red and blue. Smal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1462
Extent:
Parchment codex

2. Burney MS 157

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 157
Title:
Speeches of Cicero, Pseudo-Cicero, Pseudo-Sallust, Aeschines, and Demosthenes (the latter two in the Latin translation of Leonardo Bruni)
Scope & Content:
Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia (ff. 2r-8r), preceded by an added argument (f. 1v); Pro Milone (ff. 8r-18r), with an added marginal argument; Pro Plancio (ff. 18r-28v); Pro Sulla (ff. 28v-37r); De Haruspicum Responsis (ff. 37r-43v); De Provinciis Consularibus (ff. 43v-47v); Pro Caelio (ff. 47v-55v); Pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

3. Burney MS 254

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 254
Title:
Humanistic miscellany
Scope & Content:
A typical humanistic collectionof texts relating to classical ideas of education of the youth. Contents: ff. 1r-11v: RufiusFestus, Breviarium rerum gestarum populiRomani, begins ‘Ruffi Sexti viri consularis rerumgestarum populi Romani, Valentiniano Augusto, liber incipit feliciter.: Pioperpet...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
One volume