Plutarch and Xenophon
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Description
- Title
- Plutarch and Xenophon
- Creator
- Plutarch
- Contributor
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Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444.
Xenophon. - Published / Created
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Publication Place
- Italy (?)
- Abstract
-
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Dedicatory epistle of Leonardo Bruni to Niccolo Niccoli. 2) Plutarch, Vita Ciceronis. 3) Plutarch, Vita Demosthenis. 4) Dedicatory epistle to Niccolo Niccoli. 5) Xenophon, Hiero. All translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni. In this manuscript the treatises are not identified, nor is the translator, but the dedicatory epistles to Niccolo Niccoli serve to indicate both author and translator
- Description
-
In Latin.
Written in humanistic script by a single scribe.
No headings or ornamentation; the manuscript was apparently never finished.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Straight-grained black goatskin, gold-tooled. - Provenance
- Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (963 and 2738). Presented in 1926 by Leonard Bacon and Susan Bacon Keith in memory of their father Nathaniel Terry Bacon.
- Extent
- ff. ii + 90 + ii : 202 x 128 (127 x 79) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 14
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Demosthenes.
Niccoli, Niccolò, ca. 1364-1437.
Plutarch. - Subject (Topic)
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Biography
Dialogues, Latin
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Demosthenes
Niccoli, Niccolò, ca. 1364-1437
Plutarch
Translations from Greek and Roman authors
Biography > To 500
Dialogues, Latin
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Plutarch and Xenophon. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9801792
- Object ID (OID)
- 11684570