Codices Vossiani Latini
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Title:
Summarized description in English
Language:
Latin
Date range:
Second half 15th c.
Author(s):
Franciscus Barbarus (1395-1454) (1r-63r)
Giovanni Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (c. 1380-1459) (63v-64r)
Petrus Paulus Vergerius (1370-1444) (64r-v, 89r-124r)
Plutarch (c. 45/6-120/7) (65r-88v)
Various classical authors (Ovid, Virgil, Silius, Hildebertus Cenomanensis, Gellius, Seneca, Terence and Lactantius) (124r-126v)
Giovanni Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (c. 1380-1459) (63v-64r)
Petrus Paulus Vergerius (1370-1444) (64r-v, 89r-124r)
Plutarch (c. 45/6-120/7) (65r-88v)
Various classical authors (Ovid, Virgil, Silius, Hildebertus Cenomanensis, Gellius, Seneca, Terence and Lactantius) (124r-126v)
Description:
VLO 85 is a parchment codex from the second half of the 15th c., its 128 leaves measuring 157 x 120 mm. Written space covers 115 x 72/75 mm (23 lines in dark ink). The text was written by 2 scribes , one writing in Littera fere humanistica, the other in Littera humanistica cursiva. Initials are decorated and in colour. Inscriptions are in capitals but without colour. The codex has a 17th-c. cardboard binding, made for Melchisédech Thévenot.
Classification:
Middle Ages - Humanism - Moral instruction - Correspondence (1r-64v, 89r-124r)
Antiquity - Philosophy - Classical literature - Moral instruction (65r-88v)
Antiquity - Classical literature - Poetry (124r-126v)
Antiquity - Philosophy - Classical literature - Moral instruction (65r-88v)
Antiquity - Classical literature - Poetry (124r-126v)
Other Resources:
==> Library Catalogue Universiteit Leiden
==> Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections database
==> Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections database
DOI:
10.1163/9789004264243_O_085
Journal:
VLO 085 - Franc. Barbarus, Poggius Bracciolinus, Vergerius, Plutarchus