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Marston MS 60 Naples [?], 1450-60
Leonardo Bruni, Epistolae familiares, etc.
We thank J. Hankins for his assistance with the text of this manuscript.
1. ff. 1r-89v Epistolae familiares of Leonardo Bruni, in nine books.
F. Luiso, Studi su L'Epistolario di Leonardo Bruni, (= Istituto Storico
Italiano per il Medio Evo, Studi storici fasc. 122-124 [Rome, 1980]), for
first reference cited below; L. Mehus, ed., Leonardi Bruni Arretini
Epistolarum Libri VIII (Florence, 1741), for reference in parentheses.
Headings in the manuscript were added by a later hand, s. xvi#i#n.
Book 1: I.3 (I.1); I.4 (I.2), with heading: "Adversario praeponitur,
Pontificisque Secretarius eligitur;" letter of Coluccio Salutati to Innocent
VIII, with heading: "Colucij Gratulatio ad Pontificem. [text:] [I]nnocentio pape
Linus Coluccius Salutatus post humilem recommendationem et pedum
obscula beatorum. Nescio cui magis..." (F. Novati, ed., Epistolario di
Coluccio Salutati [Rome, 1904] vol. 4, pp. 105-09, ep. XIV.xv); I.6 (I.3);
I.5 (I.4); I.7 (I.5); I.8 (I.6); I.9 (I.7); I.1 (I.8); I.13 (I.9);
I.14 (I.10); I.15 (I.11); I.16 (I.12), dated "iiij Maii, ex Mutiliana,
Mccccvj;" I.17 (I.13); I.18 (I.14); I.19 (I.15). Book 2: II.23 (II.1);
II.1 (II.2); II.2 (II.3); II.3 (II.4); II.4 (II.5); II.7 (II.6);
II.8 (II.7); II.9 (II.8); II.10 (II.[9]);
II.12 (II.10); II.13 (II.11); II.14 (II.12); II.11 (II.13); II.20 (II.14);
II.21 (II.15); II.22 (II.16); II.24 (II.17); II.25 (II.18); II.26 (II.19);
II.27 (II.20); II.28 (II.21); II.29 (II.22). Book 3: III.1-3 (III.1-3);
III.5 (III.4); III.7 (III.5); III.8 (III.6); III.10 (III.7); III.11 (III.8);
III.12 (III.9); III.14 (III.10); III.15 (III.11); III.18 (III.12);
III.19 (III.13); III.21 (III.14); III.22 (III.15); III.25 (III.16);
III.27 (III.17), dated "Florentie xv Kal. Aprilis;" III.26 (III.18), dated
"viij Kal. Januarii Rome;" III.28 (III.19); III.29 (III.20). Book 4:
IV.1 (IV.1), dated "ex Urbe vij Kal. Januarii Mccccxij;" IV.2-4 (IV.2-4);
IV.5 (IV.5), dated "Florentiae, Idibus Sept. Mccccxvj;" IV.12 (IV.14);
IV.6 (IV.6), dated "Florentiae, iiij Kal. Decembris Mccccxvj;" IV.7-9 (IV.7-9);
IV.18 (IV.10); III.13 (IV.11); IV.10 (IV.12); IV.11 (IV.13); IV.14 (IV.15),
dated "Aretii, Idibus Juniis;" IV.16 (IV.16); IV.20 (IV.17); IV.24 (IV.18),
dated "Florentie, ij Kal. Februarii Mccccxxj;" IV.25 (IV.19); IV.26 (IV.20);
IV.27 (IV.21); IV.29 (IV.22); IV.30 (IV.23). Book 5: V.1-2 (V.1-2);
III.23 (V.3); IV.22 (V.4); IV.31 (V.5); V.5 (V.8). Book 6: VI.1 (VI.1),
dated "nonas octobris Florentiae Mccccxxviiij;" VI.2-3 (VI.2-3); VI.5 (VI.4);
VI.6 (VI.5); VI.9 (VI.6); VI.10 (VI.7); VI.12 (VI.8); VI.13 (VI.9);
VI.15 (VI.10); VI.16 (VI.11). Book 7: VII.1-6 (VII.1-6); VII.14 (VII.7),
addressed "Leonardus Bartolomeo Senensi s.p.d.;" VII.15 (VII.8); VII.16 (VII.9);
VII.7 (VII.10). Book 8: VIII.4 (VIII.1); VIII.9 (VIII.2); VIII.10 (VIII.3);
VIII.11 (VIII.4); VIII.12 (VIII.5); VIII.13 (VIII.6), with eight lines at the
conclusion omitted, expl.: "O pecudem! neque enim appellari hominem decet, cui
tam insensatum iudicium sit. Vale.;" VIII.14 (VIII.7); VIII.15 (VIII.8).
Book 9: IX.2 (IX.1); IX.3 (IX.2); IX.4 (IX.3); IX.5 (IX.4); IX.7 (IX.6);
IX.8 (IX.7); IX.9 (IX.8); IX.10 (IX.9); IX.11 (IX.10); IX.12 (IX.11);
IX.13 (IX.12); IX.14 (IX.13).
2. ff. 90r-94r [Heading in upper margin:] Leonardi Aretinj prohemium
in orationibus homeri. [text:] [A]dmirari non numquam soleo: cum
alia permulta diuinitus apud homerum scripta...repellas. non tamen par
gratia atque honor tibi erit. finis orationis: phoenicis: amen.
f. 94v ruled, but blank
Selected speeches from Homer, Iliad IX (Oratio Ulixis,
Responsio Achillis, Oratio Phoenicis), translated into Latin
prose by Leonardo Bruni, with his preface. D. Mansi, ed., Stephani
Baluzii tutelensis Miscellanea novo ordine...(Lucca, 1762) v. 3,
pp. 151-54; preface only in Baron, pp. 132-34.
Arts. 3-135, the public letters of Leonardo Bruni, are numbered 1-132
by an 18th-century hand, but actually contain 131 letters and fragments
of 20 others, with salutations and texts as follow. This portion of
the manuscript is a direct copy of Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana,
Chigi J IV 119, ff. 156r-289v
(written in Arezzo, 1449), but omits a number of texts included in
the Chigi manuscript. None of these texts has been located in published
sources. There are no headings or decorative initials for any of the letters
in Marston MS 60; in addition, it is not always clear where the salutation ends
and the text begins.
3. f. 95r [M]agnifici domini amici carissimi. [text:] Displicent nobis
iniurie....
4. f. 95r [M]agnifici domini amici carissimi. [text:] Nobilis ac
dilectissimus ciuis noster Orlandus de Medicis....
5. f. 95r [No salutation.] [P]resentibus litteris nostris eandem Dominam
Magdalenam....
6. f. 95r-v [No salutation.] [S]pectabilis miles ciuis noster carissime....
7. f. 95v [D]omini Amici Reuerendi. [text:] Accedit ad presentiam
uestram Ciuis noster dilectissimus....[arts. 7 and 8 written as a single
letter]
8. f. 95v Vir amice Reuerende. [text:] Ratio exigit ut pro iustitia....
9. ff. 95v-96r [D]omine amice Reuerendissime. [text:] Quia officium est
magistratus....
10. f.96r [S]erenissime ac gloriosissime princeps. [text:] Necesse est tam
in paruis rebus....
11. f. 96r-v [V]ir amice carissime. [text:] Quia pene omnes gubernatores....
12. f. 96v [I]llustris ac excelse domine frater et amice carissime. [text:]
Si eadem conditione forent ciues uestri....
13. ff. 96v-97r [S]erenissime ac gloriosissime princeps ac benefactor noster
singularis. [text:] Accedit ad pedes V. M. ciuis noster dilectus
Jacobus Johannis de bischaris....
14. f. 97r [I]llustris et excelse domine frater et amice carissime.
[text:] Reuertitur uenetias vir bonus et spiritu feruens....
15. f. 97r-v [I]llustris ac excelse domine frater et amice Reuerende. [text:]
Inter occupationes maximas....
16. f. 97v [I]llustris ac excelse domine frater et amice Reuerende. [text:]
Prudentes uiri ac uobis plurimum dilecti....
17. ff. 97v-98v [I]n Cristo pater et dominus post recomendationem. [text:]
Audivimus literas quasdam diffamatorias civitatis nostre....
18. ff. 98v-99r [S]anctissime ac Beatissime pater post humilem
recommendationem. [text:] Non dubitamus, Beatissime Pater, quin multum
displiciant....
19. f. 99r [R]euerendo in christo patri et domino Domino Fratri Archiepiscopo
Florentino. [text:] Que cum ita sit [sic] atque ut audiunt ciues
nostri....
20. ff. 99r-101r [No salutation.] [L]icet grauissimum sit mentibus nostris
aduersus Cesaream Maiestatem....
21. f. 101r-v [No salutation.] [F]raternus amore et beniuolentia singularis....
22. f. 101v [S]pectabilis domina amica nostra Reuerenda. [text:] Cum sicut
accepimus. Dilectus ciuis noster Simon Antonij....
23. ff. 101v-102r [S]anctissime ac Beatissime pater post humilem
recomendationem. [text:] Quod [sc. Quam] fauorabiliter Sanctitas Vester
se habuerit....
This is the same letter as art. 78 below.
24. f. 102r-v [S]erenissime atque gloriosissime princeps et domine. [text:]
Etsi per alias literas ciues omnes nostros....
25. f. 102v [I]llustrissime ac excelse domine frater et amice Reuerende.
[text:] Alias scripsimus M. V. recomictentes negotium dilectorum ciuium
nostrorum N. et C. et heredum p. de pantaleonibus....
26. f. 102v [S]pectabilis uir amice Reuerende. [text:] Singularis dilectio
nostra quam erga uos....
27. f. 102v [D]omine amice Reuerende. [text:] Quia audiuimus M. V. per hoc
ipsum tempus....
28. f. 103r [M]agnifici domini amici Reuerendi. [text:] Conquestus est
grauiter apud nos....
29. f. 103r [S]pectabilis domine amice Reuerende. [text:] Accepimus litteras
uestro nomine scriptas....
30. f. 103v [M]agnifici domini fratres Reuerendi. [text:] Gratias agimus
Magnifice fraternitati uestre pro hijs....
31. f. 103v [S]erenissime princeps pater et benefactor noster singularissime.
[text:] Cum ad uestre ciuitatis obsequia nouiter condusserimus....
32. f. 103v [I]llustris ac Magnifice domine. [text:] Magnifice Vir, rogamus
ut nostro intuitu Recomendatos habere uelit. fratres germanos eiusdem....
33. ff. 103v-104r [U]niuersis et singulis ad quos presentes aduenerint
salutem et prosperos ad uota successus. [text:] Cum egregium et circumspectum
virum Marioctium....
34. f. 104r [I]llustres ac Magnifici fratres et amici Reuerendi. [text:]
Super materia illa differenciarum....
35. f. 104r-v [M]agnifici ac prudentes viri amici Reuerendi. [text:] Si
iustitiam colit ciuitas uestra....
36. f. 104v [P]riores Artium ac vexilefer [sic] iustitie populi et comunis
florentie uniuersis et singulis dominis et officialibus et ceteris omnibus
quibus hee nostre littere presentabuntur. [text:] Fidem certissimam et
indubitatam uobis facimus per presentes litteras nostras....
37. f. 105r [D]omini fratres Reuerendi. [text:] Cum olim sequuta fuisset
pax ex nouissimo bello....
38. f. 105r [D]omini Fratres Reuerendi. [text:] Super querela nobis facta
per Oratorem....
39. f. 105r-v [S]erenissima Regina mater nostra singularis. [text:] Iam
pridem et meminisse debet....
40. ff. 105v-106r [M]agnifici domini Amici Reuerendi. [text:] Si prouisio
facta per populum uestrum....
41. f. 106r [S]erenissime princeps pater et benefactor noster singularissime.
[text:] Capta fuit dudum ut S. V. meminisse confidimus....
42. f. 106r-v [S]pectabilis et honorabilis amice Reuerende. [text:] Solent
qui conuiuia instituunt....
43. f. 106v [I]llustris ac Magnifice domine frater et amice carissime. [text:]
Quia semper fuit consuetum....
44. ff. 106v-107r [I]llustris ac excelse domine frater et amice carissime.
[text:] Ut possit Illustris D. V. intueri....
45. ff. 107r-108r [I]llustris atque excelse domine frater et amice carissime.
[text:] Dum sapientiam V. D. eximiam in maximis minibusque rebus....
46. f. 108r [I]llustris ac excelse domine frater et amice Reuerende. [text:]
Quoniam per effectum operis manifeste deprehendimus....
47. f. 108r-v [I]llustris et excelse domine frater et amice carissime.
[text:] Recensentes nobiscum ipsi sanctum illud....
48. ff. 108v-109r [D]omini fratres carissimi. [text:] Sepius iam querelas
nobis fecerunt comunitas et homines de Montepulciano....
49. f. 109r-v [M]agnifici domini fratres carissimi. [text:] Veniens ad
nos. Spectabilis vir Johannes eneri [sic]....
50. ff. 109v-110r [No salutation.] [V]ellemus nos quidem serenissima regina
ut qui ferebat....
51. f. 110r [M]agnifice et amice noster carissime. [text:] Audiuimus non
sine displicentia....
52. f. 110r [M]agnifici domini amici Reuerendi. [text:] Audito casu prouidi
uiri B. sandri talani ciuis nostri dilecti....
53. f. 110r-v [M]agnifici uiri. [text:] Pro liberatione eiusdem ciuis nostri
rerumque suarum restitutione ad ipsum....
54. f. 110v [I]llustris et excelse domine frater et amice carissime. [text:]
Non est dubium mentibus nostris....
55. f. 110v [R]euerende in christo pater et domine. [text:] Licet nostris
mentibus desiderium insideat....
56. ff. 110v-111r [No salutation.] Receptis litteris claritatis uestre in
quibus ad nos scribitis....
57. f. 111r-v [M]agnifice domine amice carissime. [text:] Non alienum ab
offitio hominis uidetur esse....
58. f. 111v [R]euerende in christo pater et domine. [text:] Exposuerunt
nobis quidem negotia florentini cleri....
59. f. 111v [M]agnifici uiri et amici Reuerendi. [text:] Quia nonulli
deuotionis populi forte ignari....
60. f. 112r [M]agnifice domine et amice carissime. [text:] Quia experientia
teste didicimus....
61. f. 112r [U]niuersis et singulis ad quos presentes littere nostre
peruenerit [sic] salutem [salutem expunged] et prosperos ad uota successus.
[text:] Fidem uobis facimus per presentes quod facto solempni discursu....
62. f. 112v [M]agnifice domine et amice carissime. [text:] Notum est non
solum nobis uerumetiam uniuersis....
63. f. 112v [M]agnifice vir amice carissime. [text:] Scribimus Magnifico
domino Johanni de Uarrano....
64. ff. 112v-113r [D]omine amice carissime. [text:] Recepimus uestras
litteras super negotio hominum de pontito....
65. f. 113r [R]euerende in christo pater et domine. [text:] Per litteras
uenerabilium religiosarum monialium sancti silvestri....
66. f. 113r-v [S]anctissime ac Beatissime pater post humilem recomendationem
et pedum oscula beatorum. [text:] Cum spectabilis miles dominus Paulus de
quiperno qui potestarie offitium in hac nostra civitate exercuit. Nunc
finito offitio suo domum reuertatur atque ut ab eo percepimus....
67. f. 113r-v [E]gregii uiri et amici Reuerendi. [text:] Cum spectabilis
miles dominus petrus de piperno qui potestarie offitium in hac nostra ciuitate
exercuit nunc finito offitio suo domum reuertatur. Noluimus
pretermictere....
68. ff. 113v-114r [M]agnifice domine et amice carissime. [text:] Si casus
maleficij umquam accidit in quo boni domini....
69. f. 114r [I]llustris ac Magnifice domine. [text:] Etsi non dubitamus
celsitudinem vestram in multiplicibus uarijsque casibus....
70. f. 114r-v [R]euerende vir pater quam amantissime. [text:] Quanta
deuotione et quanta eximia caritate florentinus populus....
71. f. 114v [M]agnifici domini fratres Reuerendi. [text:] Quia per
capitaneos partis guelfi ciuitatis nostre ordinatum est certum equestrem....
72. f. 114v [M]agnifici domini fratres Reuerendi. [text:] Audiuimus
quemdam. Stefanum donati de Rassina....
73. f. 115r [M]agnifice domine amice carissime. [text:] Quia iustitie fauor
semper est comendabilis libenter....
74. f. 115r-v [No salutation.] [C]ognoscimus Serenissime princeps et
clementissime domine rengnum [sic] Vmgarie [sic]....
75. f. 115v [I]llustris ac excelse domine frater et amice carissime. [text:]
Fuerunt dudum res quedam et merces....
76. f. 115v [M]agnifici uiri amici carissimi. [text:] Que per uestras
litteras ad gaudium et letitiam....
77. ff. 115v-116r [S]pectabiles uiri amici Reuerendi. [text:] Aduentus
Nobilis uiri I. borromei a nobis missi gratissimus proculdubio....
78. f. 116r-v [S]anctissime ac Beatissime pater post humilem recomendationem.
[text:] Quam fauorabil[iter sanctitas uester] se habuerit et habeat erga
Reuerendum in christo patrem Amerigum florenti[e archie]piscopum....
The same letter as art. 23 above.
79. f. 116v [I]llustris et excelse domine frater et amice carissime. [text:]
Coniunctio nostra et hec scribendi assiduitas....
80. ff. 116v-117r [M]agnifice domine frater et amice. [text:] Fuit dudum in
principio huius belli....
81. f. 117r [S]anctissime et Beatissime pater post humilem recommendationem.
[text:] Exposuit nobis Reuerendus in christo pater et dominus pilius
Archiepiscopus Ianuensis....
82. f. 117r [M]agnifici domini fratres nostri Reuerendi. [text:] Relatum
nobis a commissario uestro scribitis multa et facta....
83. f. 117v [S]anctissime ac beatissime pater post humilem recomendationem.
[text:] Scripsit nuper sanctitas vester nobis super negotio....
84. ff. 117v-118r [S]erenissime princeps et clementissime domine. [text:]
Singularis deuotio, quam ciuitas nostra erga uos....
85. f. 118v [M]agnifici domini fratres carissimi. [text:] Fraternitas uestra
sic litteras nostras interpretatur....
86. f. 118v [M]agnifici domini fratres amici Reuerendi. [text:] Audiuimus
captum esse in ciuitate vestra....
87. ff. 118v-119r [R]euerende vir amice carissime. [text:] Scribimus
spectabilibus viris *** et brargo [sic]....
88. f. 119r [I]llustris et excelse domine frater et amice carissime. [text:]
Alias scripsimus celsitudini uestre recommendantes....
89. f. 119r-v [V]enerabiles et magnifici domini amici Reuerendi. [text:]
Excitat nos dilectio singularis qua venerabilem uirum....
90. f. 119v [M]agnifici domini fratres Reuerendi. [text:] Examinatis
litteris vestris postremis....
91. f. 119v [S]erenissime princeps et clementissime domine. [text:] In
hijs litteris per quas iustitiam postulatur....
92. f. 120r [R]euerende in christo pater et domine. [text:] Susceptis
litteris uestris in quibus securitatem....
93. f. 120r-v [R]euerende in christo pater. [text:] Quam inuiti ac prope
horentes scribamus....
94. f. 120v [R]euerendissime in christo pater et domine. [text:] Audiuimus
ex ciuibus nostris dilectis Iohannem de cordutijs....
95. ff. 120v-121r [S]erenissime princeps et clementissime domine. [text:]
Est clementis mansuetudinisque vestre....
96. f. 121r [M]agnifici domini fratres carissimi. [text:] Ciues quidam
nostri ut uobis suggeritur....
97. f. 121r [N]obilis uir amice carissime. [text:] Cognouimus relatione
nobis facta pro parte consulum....
98. f. 121v [M]agnifici domini fratres carissimi. [text:] Si alias
scripserimus, M. V., pro liberatione B. de tizano quem ratione cuiusdam
blasfemie condempnatum....
99. f. 121v [M]agnifice domine ami[ce carissime]. [text:] Fuit dudum
captus per hostes nostros I. Io. de orlandinis....
100. ff. 121v-122r [M]agnifici Reuerendi carissimi [sic]. [text:] Si
sepius scribimus M. V. F. in fauorem ciuium nostrorum....
101. f. 122r [No salutation.] [Q]uare cum iustitia sit in facto et fauor in
personis....
102. f. 122r [R]euerendissime pater et prestantissime domine. [text:]
Honestum simul et debitum uidetur esse....
103. f. 122r [M]agnifici domini et amici Reuerendi. [text:] Litteras quidem
uestras plenas beniuolentie et singularis caritatis accepimus....
104. f. 122r-v [S]anctissime ac beatissime pater post humilem recomendationem
et pedum oscula beatorum. [text:] Et per litteras oratoris nostri
penes s. v....
105. f. 122v [S]anctissime ac beatissime pater post humilem recomendationem et
pedum obscula [sic] beatorum. [text:] Per gratiam summi et inefabilis
creatoris nostri a quo omnia bona descendunt....
106. ff. 122v-123r [M]agnifici domini. [text:] Quia certissime scimus cuncta
que ad prosperitatem....
107. f. 123r [M]agnifice domine amice carissime. [text:] Etsi non dubitamus
quin omnes florentini ciues....
108. f. 123r [R]everendissime pater et domine. [text:] Quia preces eorum qui
iustitiam....
109. f. 123r [M]agnifici domini fratres Reuerendi. [text:] Duas per hos dies
querelas habuimus....
110. f. 123r-v Sanctissime ac Beatissime pater post humilem recomendationem.
[text:] Ut primum per oratores ferarie consistentes....
111. ff. 123v-124r [R]euerendissime pater et domine. [text:] Etsi opera
R. P. V. in hoc sanctissimo ac acceptissimo pacis negotio....
112. f. 124r [No salutation:] [C]um aliquid accidit deuotis fidelibus et
subiectis uestris....
113. f. 124r [I]llustris atque excelse domine. [text:] Sepius iam scripsimus
celsitudini uestre....
114. f. 124r [I]llustris atque excelse domine. [text:] Ut de bello dudum
exorto maximam non [imme]rito....
115. f. 124r-v [R]euerendissime in christo pater et domine. [text:] Quoniam
per dei gratiam pax....
116. f. 124v [I]llustris et excelse domine amice carissime. [text:]
Suscepimus litteras I. M. V. et cum illis documentum publicum ratificationis
facte....
117. f. 124v [R]euerendissime in christo pater et domine. [text:] Singularis
fidutia quam prestitit nobis benignitas S. D....
118. ff. 124v-125r [M]agnifice domine amice carissime. [text:] Scripsimus
nuper ad M. V. desiderium nostrum....
119. f. 125r [R]everendissime in christo pater. [text:] Quoniam in hijs que
nobis scribitis....
120. f. 125r-v [M]agnifice domine amice carissime. [text:] Debitum est ut
talibus viribus qualem [per] presentem....
121. f. 125v [M]agnifice domine amice carissime. [text:] Nos quidem libenter
fauemur honori fidelium nostrorum....
122. ff. 125v-126r [I]llustris et excelse domine amice carissime post salutem.
[text:] Et animos ad uobis grata largitor paratos nostri semper fuit....
123. f. 126r [M]agnifice domine amice carissime. [text:] Audiuimus non sine
molestia animorum nostrorum....
124. f. 126r [I]llustris atque excelse domine frater et amice carissime.
[text:] Gerentes singularem deuotionis effectum....
125. f. 126r [M]agnifici uiri amici Reuerendi. [text:] Dignum simul
gratumque existimamus....
126. f. 126r-v [E]gregie doctor. [text:] Non nichil admirationis actulit
nobis tanta properatio recessus uestri....
127. f. 126v [R]euerendissime in christo pater et domine. [text:] Etsi
uestra intercessio pro Nobili illo de uiuario....
128. f. 126v [R]euerendissime in christo pater et domine. [text:] Recolenda
memoria clarissimi uiri colucij salutati....
129. ff. 126v-127v In this art. are the exordia of 14
different letters with the following salutations and incipits:
a. [No salutation.] [Q]uia illa que sunt comunis utilitatis debent ab
omnibus prompto fauore...; b. [No salutation.] [Q]uia ut alias scripsimus
per ipsa belli tempora...; c. [No salutation.] [S]i sepius scripsimus
M. fraternitati V. pro liberatione...; d. [No salutation.] [A]ccidit nuper
casus cuidam dilecto ciui nostro...; e. [No salutation.] [F]aciunt
liberalissime oblationes uestre nobis per uestras litteras...; f. [No
salutation.] [P]recipua singularisque fidutia Quam in uestra paternitate...;
g. [S]erenissime princeps et clementissime domine. Plerumque fiunt querele
apud principes et dominos...; h. [No salutation.] [I]n multis occupationibus
et rebus agendis...; i. [No salutation.] [C]ommendamus diligentiam uestram
et circa opera istic facta...; j. [No salutation.] [Q]uanta cum fidutia
recurramus ad sublimissimam S. V. in cunctis casibus...; k. [No salutation.]
[F]aciunt liberalissime oblationes uestre et cum effectu operam...;
l. [No salutation.] [E]xigunt et familie prestantia merita...; m. [No
salutation.] [N]ollemus ut territoria et loca nostra...; n. [M]agnifici domini
fratres carissimi. [text:] [Q]uia laudabile semper fuit et honestati
consonum....
130. f. 127v [M]agnifici domini fratres Reuerendi. [text:] Comendationum
genera multiplicia sunt....
131. f. 127v [M]agnifici domini fratres Reuerendi. [text:] Scripsimus
litteras commendatiuas pro duobus....
132. ff. 127v-128r In this art. are one complete letter and
the exordia of five additional letters: a. [M]agnifice uir amice
carissime. [text:] Compellunt nos multiplicitia et maxime [sic] atque
pene incomportabilia...compellamur. Datum.; b. [I]llustris atque excelse
domine frater et amice Reuerende. [text:] [A]licit nos dulcedo...; c.
[No salutation.] [S]e [sic] ipse paruerit mandatis nostris...; d. [No
salutation.] [Q]uotidie admiratio nobis crescit...; e. [No salutation.]
[N]on obmictimus nos quidem quotiens...; f. [No salutation.] [F]iduciam capimus
M. D. de M. V....
133. f. 128r-v [I]llustris et excelse domine frater et amice Reuerende. [text:]
[O]ptaremus no[s quidem in hac] liberalissima....
134. f. 128v In this art. are two letters, the first giving a complete text,
the second fragmentary at the end. a. [P]riores artium et uexillifer iustitie
populi et comunis florentie vniuersis et singulis uicarijs capitaneis
potestatibus ac ceteris officialibus et sudditis uestris ad quos presentes
aduenerint. [text:] Cum Illustris princeps et generosus dominus dominus
petrus...; b. [Priores ar]tium et uexillifer iustitie populi et comunis
florentie. Specta[bilibus uiris] consulibus ciuitatis cacrouie
[sic] uel
alijs uniuersis et singulis [officialibus con]stitutis ad quos presentes
litteras peruenerint. Salutem et [prosperos ad uo]ta successus. [text:]
Fidem uobis et uestris singulis facimus per presentes....
135. f. 129r-v [Heading, in upper margin:] Ad regem Vngarie. [salutation:]
[S]erenissime rex et gloriossime princeps post humilimam recomendationem.
[text:] Gloria et magnitudo et omnis prosperitas sit in perpetuum tibi
gloriosissime rex...negotijs reportent. Datum.
136. ff. 129v-130r Ad Imperatorem oratio pro parte Comunis Florentie.
[text:] [V]idimus stellam eius in oriente Et uenimus adorare eam
[sic].
Verba sunt Macthei Euangeliste in capitulo [lacuna in ms]. Serenissime
atque gloriosissime princeps. non sine probabili ratione similitudo
facta est ab antiquis...cum dabitur locus et tempus tui Maiestati
seriosius exprimemus. For f. 130v see provenance below.
Leonardo Bruni, unpublished diplomatic oration, probably written
for Florentine orators attending the coronation of Frederick II as
King of the Romans in 1440.
Parchment, ff. i (paper) + 130 + v (paper, watermarks similar to
Briquet Oiseau 12250), 255 x 185 (187 x 128) mm. 32 long lines.
Frame-ruled in pale brown ink.
I 12, II-VII 10, VIII 12, IX-XII 10, XIII 6. Vertical catchwords
perpendicular to text along inner bounding line, verso.
Written in a semi-gothic bookhand with notarial features; marginal
notes, in red, by a later hand in humanistic cursive script.
Illuminated title page, f. 1r, with three-quarter border, fleshy
curling acanthus, red and green with some touches in blue and gold on
parchment ground, in inner, upper and outer margins (partly rubbed).
Illuminated initial, composed of foliage, green, red, mauve, yellow, and
gold, against blue ground, edged in yellow. In center of lower margin,
unidentified arms (partially effaced) clearly painted over earlier arms.
Many flourished initials alternate in blue and red with red or ochre pen
designs, with flourishes often extending the whole length of page. After
23r, spaces for initials remain unfilled; remains of guide letters for
decorator.
Rodent damage at end of manuscript often affects text.
Binding: Italy, s. xix. Quarter bound in vellum with semi-limp paper
sides. Traces of title, in ink, on spine. Off-set impression of earlier
turn-ins on f. 130v.
Written probably in Southern Italy, perhaps in Naples, in the middle of
the 15th century according to A. C. de la Mare. Owned and annotated by an
unidentified Italian humanist (Rome, s. XVI#i#n) who added brief marginal
notations in red at the beginning of many letters, as well as the
inscription on f. 130v: "M D viij Die. xj. Aprilis: hora v. noctis:
obijt Guido Vbaldus Dux Vrbinj." Early monogram [?] on f. 130v at top of
leaf. Notes, s. xix, in ink in margins of manuscript and on flyleaves;
these notes by the same 19th century collector as those in Marston MS 61.
The collector designated Marston MS 60 as "Vol. I" and Marston MS 61 as
"Vol. II" since each contained letters not found in the other. There is,
however, no certain evidence to indicate that the two volumes were originally
intended to complement one another; except for the same style of 19th-century
binding, the physical format of the two codices is completely different.
Purchased from Libreria Mediolanum of Milan (Dr. E. Pozzi) in 1955 by L. C. Witten (inv. no. 775), who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston
(bookplate).
secundo folio: sanctitati
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 71, no. 60.
Barbara A. Shailor