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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Name Bracciolini, Poggio, scholar and humanist, 1380-1459, http://viaf.org/viaf/19722038 Level [40] File

1. Harley MS 1883

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1883
Title:
Collection of moral treatises, including Andreas Carthusiensis, De remedio utriusque fortunae
Scope & Content:
A collection of medieval and humanistic texts on virtuous life. Contents: ff. 1r-80v: Andreas Carthusiensis, De remedio utriusque fortunae, begins 'Quondam michi meditanti subiit illa quae me saepius occupat...'. ff. 81-118r: Francesco Zabarella (b. 1360, d. 1417), De Felicitate in 3 books wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 2460

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2460
Title:
Collection of classical texts, including Xenophon, Cyropaedia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-86r: Xenophon, Cyropaedia,in an unedited Latin translation by Poggio Bracciolini (see Lourdaux 1978), with a preface, rubric: 'In Xenophontis historiam de vita Cyri per Pogium vel ut quidam volunt per Franciscum Philelphum in latinum traductim prefatio', incipit: ‘Cum plures qu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. Harley MS 2500

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2500
Title:
A compilation of historical texts, including Orosius, Historia adversus paganos
Scope & Content:
A compilation of historical texts preceded by a table of contents added by a 15th-century hand (f. 1* recto). The entry for Pseudo-Turpinus, the last item on the list, was added by a later, 16th-century hand, and suggests a later inclusion of this item in the volume. ff. 1r-28v: L. Annaeus Flor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Harley MS 2711

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2711
Title:
Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae; De bello Jugurthino; Poggio Bracciolini, Invectiva in Franciscum Philelphum; Invectiva II in Franciscum Philelphum; Epistola ad Laurentium Aretinum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two works by the Roman historian Sallust (b. 86, d. c. 35 BC): De coniuratione Catilinae (On the Catiline Conspiracy) and De bello Jugurthino (On the Jugurthine War). It also includes two invectives by the Italian scholar and humanist Poggio Bracciolini (b. 1380, d. 1459...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1449
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 3276

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3276
Title:
Humanistic miscellany
Scope & Content:
A collection of historical and poetic works by Italian humanists. Contents: f. 1r: Leonardo Bruni Aretino (b. 1370, d. 1444), Letter to Alfonso of Aragon dated 1442 in Florence, printed in Leonardo Bruni, Epistolarum libri VIII, ed. by Lorenzo Mehus (Florence, 1741), pp. 165-66. ff. 1r-1v: Le...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 3333

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3333
Title:
Poggio Bracciolini, Facetiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript containing the Facetiae (Jokes) by the Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini (b. 1380, d. 1459) was completed on 10 June 1456. The Facetiae was one of the most popular joke books of the Renaissance. Contents: ff. 1r-87r: Poggio Bracciolini, Facetiae. Decoration: Initials in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1456
Extent:
A parchment codex

7. Harley MS 4150

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4150
Title:
Jerome, De officiis liberorum erga parentes; Plutarch, De liberis educandis; Pier Paolo Vergerio, De ingenuis moribus; Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino da Verona; Guarino da Verona, Letter to Nicolaus Leonardus; Francesco Barbaro, De re uxoria
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-5v: Jerome, De officiis liberorum erga parentes. ff. 6r-39v: Plutarch, De liberis educandis; translated into Latin by Guarino da Verona, with a preface. ff. 40r-93v; Pier Paolo Vergerio, De ingenuis moribus. ff. 94r-95v: Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino da Verona. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 6519

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6519
Title:
Poggio Bracciolini, De Nobilitate Vera
Scope & Content:
This manuscript of Poggio Bracciolini's De Nobilitate Vera was completed on 27 September 1446 (f. 18v). Contents: Poggio Bracciolini (b. 1380, d. 1459): De Nobilitate Vera (About True Nobility).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1446
Extent:

1 volume