Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460, scribe Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460, translator D'Angelo, Jacopo, translator Plutarch. Dion. Latin Drury, Henry, 1778-1841, former owner Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscript. HM 1029
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ff. 1-20. [Plutarch] Vita Bruti. Incipit: Marci Bruti progenitor fuit Iunius fuit brutus [sic] quem pristi romanorum. Explicit: epistolam vere bruti fuisse dicimus. Rubric: Marci Bruti Vita ex Plutarco Per Guarinum Veronensem Oratorem Clarissimum. Latin. Other creator(s): Iacopo Angeli da Scarperia, translator. Iacopo Angeli da Scarperia, trans.; on the authorship of the different Plutarch translations, see V. R. Giustiniani, ""Sulle traduzioni latine delle 'Vite' di Plutarco nel Quattrocento,"" Rinascimento, 2 ser., 1 (1961) 37 and n. 3. ff. 20-21v; ff. 22-24v blank. [Plutarch] Comparatio Bruti et Dionis. Incipit: His itaque hominibus cum multa bonorum adsint genera. Explicit: ut statua eodem in loco permaneret imperavit. Rubric: Comparatio et diligens de bruto ac dione iudicium plutarchi. Latin. Other creator(s): Guarino Veronese, translator. Guarinus Veronensis, trans.; in the manuscripts, the Comparatio usually follows the Vita Dionis (also translated by Guarinus Veronensis), not the Vita Bruti. Title supplied by cataloger. Support: Paper. Script: Cursive with some humanistic features. Layout: 1-2¹². Catchword in center lower margin. 36 long lines in quire 1, 34 in quire 2; horizontal rules in ink, vertical double bounding lines in lead; the written space placed towards the center of the page with 45-50 mm. margins at either side. Span folios: ff. 1-24v. Other Decoration: 5-line plain initial in the ink of the text, f. 1, followed by the first line in display capitals; pale red-brown rubrics on f. 1, on the last note on f. 23v and the note on f. 24v. Notes added on f. 23v in a humanistic script are: Omnia prius experiri consilio quam armis sapientem decet et cetera; Vincat honestas commoda propria et iustitia ac leges humanos coherceant affectus nec male imperanti obediamus et cetera; Adversam enim corporis egritudinem ars sanat animi vero sola mors medetur; on f. 24v, an added note in a cursive script: Vita alexandri, vita marci bruti traducte de grecho in latinum per elloquentissimum virum guarinum veronensem. Act. 150. Marginal notes on f. 1 in the hand of Guarino Veronese. Acknowledgments: We thank Dr. A. C. de la Mare for kindly identifying the person who added notes in the margins. Assigned Date: s. XVmed. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/30/2012. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound, s. XIX ineunte, in brown half calf by Charles Lewis. HM 1029. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Brutus, Marcus Junius, 85 B.C.?-42 B.C Dion, approximately 408 B.C.-354 B.C Statesmen--Rome--Biography Statesmen--Greece--Biography Biographies (rbgenr) Translations (rbgenr) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
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Provenance
Written in Italy in the mid-fifteenth century; it possibly once also included a Life of Alexander. Belonged to the Rev. Henry Drury (1778-1841), with his signature in the upper right hand corner of the first flyleaf; his sale, London, 19 February 1827, n. 3464 to Sir Thomas Phillipps. Phillipps n. 3377 and his pressmark on the front pastedown; Phillipps sale, Sotheby's, 10 June 1896, n. 959 to Leighton. Owned by G. D. Smith; sale by Anderson, New York, 30 March 1908, n. 299 to G. D. Smith; resold for him by Anderson, New York, 12 October 1909, n. 227 to S. Source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
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