Bruni, Leonardo (1370-1444)
This manuscript was owned by Johannes Heynlin de Lapide, who donated it to the Carthusian Monastery of Basel; it contains a collection of speeches and letters by renowned humanists such as Poggio Bracciolini and Enea Silvio Piccolomini— among them an original letter from Johannes Reuchlin to Jakob Louber— with texts by Greek and Oriental authors in Latin translation. Parts of the manuscript are written by Heynlin and Reuchlin.
Online Since: 10/04/2018
- Bruni, Leonardo: Oratio in hypocritas (36r-45r)
Incipit: Leonardi Aretini viri clarissimi contra hypocritas invectiva. Ex omni genere hominum quos variis
Explicit: sed in tua.
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- Bruni, Leonardo: Tractatulus de studiis et litteris (234r-243v)
Incipit: Illustri domine Baptiste de Maletestis Leonardus Aretinus salutem plurimam dicit. Compulsus crebro rumore admirabilium virtutum tuarum
Explicit: ad gloriam cohortari. Explicit epistola de commendatione et incitamento litterarum studiorumque humanitatis que est invectiva quodam modo contra delatores poesis.
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- Balue, Jean (Author) | Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Blondus, Flavius (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Translator) | Guarinus, Veronensis (Translator) | Heynlin, Johannes (Librarian) | Heynlin, Johannes (Former possessor) | Heynlin, Johannes (Annotator) | Heynlin, Johannes (Scribe) | Heynlin, Johannes (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Johannes, Ioffridi (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Louis XI., France, Roi (Author) | Maximus, Tyrius (Author) | Mehmed II., Osmanisches Reich, Sultan (Author) | Perottus, Nicolaus (Translator) | Pius II, Papa (Author) | Plutarchus (Author) | Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco (Author) | Proclus, Constantinopolitanus (Author) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Scribe) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Author) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Translator) | Senilis, Paulus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel was written by various hands; it contains primarily astrological writings, among them texts by Abraham ibn Esra, Al-Zarkali and Hermes Trismegistus translated from the Arabic, Hebrew and Greek. In the margin of f. 120r there is a blessing against worms, on f. 145v medical advice in a blend of German and Latin. In addition to handwritten parts, the volume also contains three prints. One of the two original leather clasps is still intact.
Online Since: 03/29/2019
- Bruni, Leonardo: Praefatio in libros oeconomicorum Pseudo-Aristotelis ad Cosmam Medicem (325r-325v)
Incipit: Preciosa sunt interdum parvi corporis
Explicit: magis decet quam alienis. Nunc ad textum Aristotelis veniamus
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- Alfonsus, Bonihominis (Translator) | Aristoteles (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Translator) | Campanus, Johannes (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Florus, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Henricus, Bate (Translator) | Hermes, Trismegistus (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir (Author) | Johannes, de Lineriis (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Maġribī, as-Samauʾal Ibn-Yaḥyā al- (Author) | Nicolaus, de Tudeschis (Author) | Petrus, de Abano (Translator) | Petrus, De Andelo (Author) | Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Gaius (Author) | Ṯābit Ibn-Qurra (Author) | Valerius Maximus (Author) | Valescus, de Taranta (Author) | Zarqālī, Ibrāhīm Ibn-Yaḥyā az- (Author) Found in: Standard description
An exceptional testimony of the "Renaissance" that rediscovered Platonism, as opposed to the medieval Thomism based on Aristotle, CB 136 was copied by the hand of the great Florentine humanist Leonardo Bruni, also called Aretino. This manuscript on parchment, written in a regular calligraphy, contains many philosophical dialogues, and it served as the basis for the Latin translation made by Aretino.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
- Bruni, Leonardo (Translator) | Marsilius Ficinus (Author) | Platon (Author) Found in: Standard description
In this work from Plato's most productive period, Phaedo tells of the death of Socrates from a witness's point of view and relates the last words of the great philosopher in the form of a last dialogue with Cebes and Simmias. This manuscript, which contains a number of attractive decorative initials, was written during the 15th century on parchment. The round humanistic script is that of a single scribe, who identifies himself in red thus, "Marcus Speegnimbergensis scripsit" (fol. 76)
Online Since: 06/02/2010
- Bruni, Leonardo: Epistula communis ad libros omnes Platonis (f. 1-2v)
Incipit: Et si ego mi Nicolae prius quoque uehementer amabam Platonem tuum sic
Explicit: quod minus a te in pistrinum dedam. Sed hęc satis. Vale nonis septembris.
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Bruni, Leonardo (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Translator) | Karl und Faber Kunst- und Literaturantiquariat (Seller) | Platon (Author) Found in: Standard description
The text De verborum significatu by the Latin grammarian Pompeius Festus is an extremely valuable dictionary of Latin language and mythology for those seeking to understand the world of the Romans. This manuscript is of Italian origin and retains its contemporary binding with a wooden cover. It was written during the 15th century on parchment and contains lovely gilded initials on a blue and red background. Quotations have been added in the margins to explain certain words in the text. The last leaves in the volume contain excerpts from Greek and Latin authors.
Online Since: 06/02/2010
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- Apicius (Author) | Aristophanes (Author) | Asconius Pedianus, Quintus (Author) | Berchem, Denis van (Former possessor) | Bruni, Leonardo (Translator) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Festus, Sextus Pompeius (Author) | Gellius, Aulus (Author) | Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Author) | Livius, Titus (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Author) | Plutarchus (Author) | Schennis, Friedrich von (Former possessor) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Servius (Author) | Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius (Author) | Varro, Marcus Terentius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
Paper manuscript containing the Parallel Lives of Plutarch in latin translation. The first page features a golden initial on a background of white vine stem decoration, as well as a coat of arms in the bottom margin, perhaps that of Guiniforte Zazzi, Pavia professor of law; on the sides of the coat of arms can be read the name of Peter Falck (†1519), the Fribourg humanist through whom the manuscript reached Fribourg before becoming part of the library of the Capuchins, and, in 2004, of the University Library.
Online Since: 10/04/2011
- Bruni, Leonardo: Vita Ciceronis (234v-241r) Found in: Standard description
- Bruni, Leonardo (Author) Found in: Standard description
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- Bruni, Leonardo (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Translator) | Falck, Peter (Former possessor) | Giustiniani, Leonardo (Translator) | Jacobus, Angelus de Scarperia (Translator) | Philelphus, Franciscus (Translator) | Plutarchus (Author) | Xenophon (Author) Found in: Standard description
Le Mignon is a collection of various historical narratives and moral or philosophical texts. Henri Romain is the author of the summary of the three decades of Titus Livius and the Compendium historial, a compilation of ancient stories. Laurent de Premierfait is the translator of De la vieillesse by Cicero, and Jean Courtecuisse translated Des Quatre vertus cardinales by Seneca. This manuscript from the studio of Maître François presents seven beautiful frontispiece illuminations.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
- Romain, Henri: Abrégé des trois premières Décades de Tite-Live [d'après la traduction française de Pierre Bersuire], et de la Première Guerre punique de Leonardo Bruni d’Arezzo [d'après la traduction française de Jean Le Bègue] intercalé entre la première et la seconde décade. (Fol. 1-200v)
Incipit: Cy commence l’abregié et effect des trois decades de Titus Livius avec aussi l’abregié de la premiere bataille punique mené et faicte entre les Rommains et les Cartageniens.
Explicit: Cy fine l’abregié des trois decades de Titus Livius. Et aussi de la premiere bataille punique.
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- Berchorius, Petrus (Translator) | Bruni, Leonardo (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | François, Meister (Illuminator) | Johannes, de Brevicoxa (Translator) | Laurent, de Premierfait (Translator) | Le Bègue, Jean (Translator) | Livius, Titus (Author) | Lullin, Ami (Former possessor) | Martinus, Bracarensis (Author) | Nemours, Jacques d'Armagnac de Castres de (Former possessor) | Petau, Alexandre (Former possessor) | Romain, Henri (Author) Found in: Standard description
Laurent de Premierfait translated De casibus virorum illustrium by Giovanni Boccaccio into French in about 1400. The work described the tragic fates of illustrious personages, mostly figures from antiquity. The translator presented a second version to the Duke of Berry in 1409, after expanding it with notes based on extracts from Latin historians. The Geneva exemplar, which carries the Ex libris of the bibliophile duke, transmits the second version. It is richly decorated with historiated vignettes, attributable mainly to the "Maître de Luçon".
Online Since: 12/21/2010
- Bruni, Leonardo (Translator) Found in: Standard description
- Boccaccio (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Translator) | Laurent, de Premierfait (Translator) | Luçon Master (Illuminator) | Lullin, Ami (Former possessor) | Petau, Alexandre (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Laurent de Premierfait translated De casibus virorum illustrium by Giovanni Boccaccio into French in about 1400. This work describes the tragic fates of illustrious personages, mostly figures from antiquity. The translator presented a second version to the Duke of Berry in 1409, after expanding it with notes based on extracts from Latin historians. The Geneva exemplar, which carries the Ex libris of the bibliophile duke, transmits the second version. It is richly decorated with historiated vignettes, attributable mainly to the "Maître de Luçon".
Online Since: 12/21/2010
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- Boccaccio (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Translator) | Laurent, de Premierfait (Translator) | Luçon Master (Illuminator) | Lullin, Ami (Former possessor) | Petau, Alexandre (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript, written in 1499 under the schoolmaster Cunradus Reuschman of Lindau (note on p. 488), contains predominantly works by ancient writers, as well as several works by 15th century Italian authors. All texts have commentaries, and the more important works are generally preceded by an argumentum. Often there are several pages left blank between the texts. In the margins, there are several simple pen sketches (pp. 498–501, 504, 511, 513; on p. 706 and 712 sketches of maps of the world). P. 3 contains a full-page pen sketch of the city of Troy. The individual texts are: Publius Baebius Italicus, Ilias latina (pp. 5–51); Virgil, Georgica (pp. 57–146); Horace, Epistolae (pp. 148–230); Horace, Carmen saeculare (pp. 231–234); Lactantius, De ave Phoenice (pp. 234–241); Persius, Satires (pp. 245–282); Margarita passionis, inc. Cum prope pasca foret (pp. 283–288); Seneca, De providentia (pp. 289–298); Augustinus Datus, Elegantiolae (pp. 323–361); Carmen de dolo et astutia cuiusdam mulieris, inc. Summe procus caveat ducatur ne mala coniunx (pp. 362–365); hymns (pp. 366–388); Parvulus philosophiae moralis (pp. 395–417); Dominicus Mancinus, De quattuor virtutibus (pp. 419–488); Hieronimus de Vallibus, Jesuida (pp. 491–514); Matthaeus Bossus, Oratio in beata coena domini (pp. 515–524); Ps.-Leonardo Bruni Aretino, Comoedia Poliscena (pp. 539–549); Terence, Andria (pp. 563–621); Virgil, Bucolica (pp. 629–660); Horace, Ars poetica (pp. 661–678); Horace, Epodes (pp. 679–692); Ps.-Virgil, Moretum (pp. 692–694); Ps.-Ovid, Remedia amoris, inc. Qui fuerit cupiens ab amica solvere colla (pp. 694–695); Ps.-Ovid, De arte amandi, inc. Si quem forte iuvat subdi sapienter amori (pp. 695–698); a treatise on punctuation, De kanone punctorum (pp. 699); Virgil, Aeneis, lib. 1 and 3 (pp. 701–726 and 741–760); Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae (pp. 765–802); Sallust, De bello Iugurthino, incomplete (pp. 803–804); Seneca, Epistolae morales (pp. 812–853).
Online Since: 10/04/2018
- Bruni, Leonardo: Accessus ad Ps.-Leonardi Bruni Aretini Comoediam Poliscenam (p. 538)
Incipit: Per lucidiorem intellectum eorum que hic et circa initium totius poetice dicuntur
Explicit: recitatio scripture vel distinctio eius vel ipsa scriptura.
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- Bruni, Leonardo: Comoedia Poliscena, cum prologo, argumento et glossis (pp. 539-549) Found in: Standard description
- Anonymus (Author) | Augustinus, Dati (Author) | Baebius, Italicus (Author) | Bosso, Matteo (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Author) | Hieronymus, de Vallibus (Author) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Author) | Mancinus, Dominicus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Persius Flaccus, Aulus (Author) | Pindarus (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Terentius Afer, Publius (Author) | Trutfetter, Jodocus (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Bruni, Leonardo: Comoedia Polixena. Found in: Additional description
- Anonymus (Author) | Augustinus, Dati (Author) | Baebius, Italicus (Author) | Bosso, Matteo (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Author) | Hieronymus, de Vallibus (Author) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Author) | Mancinus, Dominicus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Persius Flaccus, Aulus (Author) | Pindarus (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Terentius Afer, Publius (Author) | Trutfetter, Jodocus (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Additional description