Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco (1380-1459)
This composite manuscript, property of the scholar and Carthusian monk Johannes Heynlin from Basel, consists of various handwritten and printed pieces of theological content: among them the treatise De saecularium religionibus by the Dominican and church reformer Johannes Nider, written in 1465 by a French scribe and annotated in the margin by Heynlin; or the text De miseria humanae conditionis by Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, one of the most important humanists of the Italian Renaissance. After Heynlin's death, the volume became part of the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Basel.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
- Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco: De miseria humanae conditionis (129r-164r)
Incipit: Inter varios scriptores qui res diversas suis studiis complexi sunt nulli mihi propius ad hominum utilitatem accessisse videntur
Explicit: aliquando molestia non carent.
Found in:
Standard description
- Albertanus, Brixiensis (Author) | Alexander, de Villa Dei (Author) | Heynlin, Johannes (Annotator) | Heynlin, Johannes (Former possessor) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Former possessor) | Nider, Johannes (Author) | Palatius, Arnoldus de (Author) | Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript was owned by Johannes Heynlin de Lapide, who donated it to the Carthusian Monastery of Basel; it contains a collection of speeches and letters by renowned humanists such as Poggio Bracciolini and Enea Silvio Piccolomini— among them an original letter from Johannes Reuchlin to Jakob Louber— with texts by Greek and Oriental authors in Latin translation. Parts of the manuscript are written by Heynlin and Reuchlin.
Online Since: 10/04/2018
- Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco: Dialogus contra hypocritas (4r-35v)
Incipit: Incipit prohemium libri per clarissimum virum Pogium Florentinum secretarium apostolicum in hypocritas editi. Cum multis ac variis animi morbis
Explicit: hiis dictis recessimus. Explicit Pogius contra hypocritas.
Found in:
Standard description
- Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco: Dialogus de avaritia (171r-215r)
Incipit: Pogii Florentini dyalogus in avariciam incipit ad Francischum Barbarum. Quoniam plures mortalium, mi Francisce
Explicit: Ita omnes consurrexerunt. Explicit Pogii dyalogus in avariciam
Found in:
Standard description
- Balue, Jean (Author) | Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Blondus, Flavius (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Translator) | Guarinus, Veronensis (Translator) | Heynlin, Johannes (Librarian) | Heynlin, Johannes (Former possessor) | Heynlin, Johannes (Annotator) | Heynlin, Johannes (Scribe) | Heynlin, Johannes (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Johannes, Ioffridi (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Louis XI., France, Roi (Author) | Maximus, Tyrius (Author) | Mehmed II., Osmanisches Reich, Sultan (Author) | Perottus, Nicolaus (Translator) | Pius II, Papa (Author) | Plutarchus (Author) | Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco (Author) | Proclus, Constantinopolitanus (Author) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Scribe) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Author) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Translator) | Senilis, Paulus (Author) Found in: Standard description
At the request of Charles the Bold, in 1470 Vasco de Lucena translated Xenophon's Cyropaedia from the Latin translation by Poggio Bracciolini (Institutio Cyri, 1445) and titled it “ Traitté des faiz et haultes prouesses de Cyrus”. The manuscript was illuminated by the “Maitre des prières de 1500” and contains seven miniatures that tell the story of Cyrus and that inspired the Duke of Burgundy in his political and military actions.
Online Since: 10/04/2018
- Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco (Translator) Found in: Standard description
- Bourrit, Charles (Librarian) | Engelbert II., Nassau-Dillenburg, Graf (Former possessor) | Gebetbuch-Meister (Illuminator) | Lucena, Vasco de (Author) | Lullin, Ami (Former possessor) | Petau, Alexandre (Former possessor) | Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco (Translator) | Xenophon (Author) Found in: Standard description