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Osborn a17
Leonardo Bruni Aretino (1369-1444). Oratio iuvenis licentiam sui
necandi a iudicibus petentis. Bound with other Latin pieces by him and
other Italian humanists. Italy; ca. 1500.
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f. 1r Quotation from Plato, Plutarch, Pliny, St. Jerome, Aristotle.
f. 2r Notes in Italian on painters in Padua
f. 3v Table of Contents in later hand.
ff. 4r-11v Oratio juvenis licentia sui necandi a judicibus petentis
(Leonardo Bruni)
ff. 11v-12v Speech in Italian, dated Padua, January, 1556.
ff. 13r-28r Francesco Contareni, Dialogus
ff. 28v-31v Lombardo a Sirico, Epistula de dispositione sue vite ad
celeberrimum vatem F. Petrarcham
f. 32v Note on the office of the Cardinal
ff. 33r-47r Leonardo Bruni Aretino, Oratio funebris pro Nanni
Strozzi, milite fiorentino.
ff. 48r-58r Poggio, Oratio in funere Fransisci Zabarelle,
cardinalis, florentini.
ff. 58v-61v Jeronimus Madius, Orationpro D. Thadeo Quirino.
ff. 64r-73v Philippus [Arimineus], Symphosion de paupertate.
ff. 75r-82v Boccaccio, Novella de Tancredo, translated into Latin by
Leonardo Bruni.
ff. 83v-93r Boccaccio, Novella di Griselda, translated into Latin by
Petrarch.
f. 93v Petrarch, Memoria to Laura.
ff. 94v-104v Pietro Paolo Vergerio, Funera orations.
ff. 105r-112r Pietro Paolo Vergerio, Vita Francisci Petrarcae.
ff. 113r-132r Leonardo Bruni, Dialogi ad Petrum Histrum.
Paper. 134 ff. 215 x 146 mm. 1 column, 25-27 lines.
I (2), II (10, +1, -10), III-VII (10), VIII (12), IX-XI (10), XII
(10, -9-10), XIII-XIV (10), XV (2).
Humanist script. Illustration of Arms on f. 4r. Titles and
marginalia (which note quotations from classical authors are
rubricated. Bound in brown calf in the nineteenth century.
Shelf number on f. 3r: "Diutii Caesaris Patauini, Ordinis Minorum
Conuentualium, No 486." Arms on f. 4r with initials NI. HO. Sir Thomas
Phillipps, MS 9627. Purchased from W. H. Robinson in 1953. Bequest of
James M. Osborn, 1976.
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