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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This manuscript contains Sienese humanist Ludovico Petroni's (d. 1478) Italian translation of Leonardo Bruni's (d.1444) Latin work De bello italico adversus Gothos. Petroni's translation into the Italian vernacular was completed in 1456. Bruni's Latin text is an account of The Gothic War (535–554) that was fought between the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy and Emperor Justinian. Bruni loosely based De bello italico on the Greek writings of the sixth-century scholar and historian Procopius. Procopius documented military campaigns in his eight-volume work The Wars of Justinian, the last four volumes of which deal with the Gothic War. In all of Bruni's correspondence concerning Del bello italico, he does not mention that his primary source is Procopius and claims the text is not a translation, but his own original composition. Although Bruni's text is loosely based on that of Procopius, he uses a number of additional sources and modifies his telling of a number of the main events. It has been suggested that the manuscript was copied by the prolific Neapolitan scribe Giovan Marco Cinico. The heraldry on the first folio suggests that the Bentivoglio family of Bologna may have commissioned the manuscript. The very end of the third book and most of the fourth book are missing but both are more fully preserved in a copy of the text at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Marson MS 15).
Written in humanist script, possibly by Neapolitan scribe Giovan Marco Cinico
Principal cataloger: Berlin, Nicole
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Polidori, Elisabetta
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 844, no. 498.
Hankins, James. "The dates of Leonardo Bruni's later works (1437-1443)". Studi Medievali E Umanistici/Università Degli Studi Di Messina, Centro Interdipartimentale Di Studi Umanistici, 2009, 11-50.
Ianziti, Gary. Writing history in Renaissance Italy Leonardo Bruni and the uses of the past. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press, 2012.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Italy (Naples?)
Ca. 1460-80 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Bound in Italy ca. 1900; printed paper on paste-board; purple paper with a pattern of black diamonds and orange circles
The primary language in this manuscript is Italian.
Created in Naples
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Italy (Naples?)
Ca. 1460-80 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Italian.
Created in Naples
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased before 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This manuscript contains Sienese humanist Ludovico Petroni's (d. 1478) Italian translation of Leonardo Bruni's (d.1444) Latin work De bello italico adversus Gothos. Petroni's translation into the Italian vernacular was completed in 1456. Bruni's Latin text is an account of The Gothic War (535–554) that was fought between the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy and Emperor Justinian. Bruni loosely based De bello italico on the Greek writings of the sixth-century scholar and historian Procopius. Procopius documented military campaigns in his eight-volume work The Wars of Justinian, the last four volumes of which deal with the Gothic War. In all of Bruni's correspondence concerning Del bello italico, he does not mention that his primary source is Procopius and claims the text is not a translation, but his own original composition. Although Bruni's text is loosely based on that of Procopius, he uses a number of additional sources and modifies his telling of a number of the main events. It has been suggested that the manuscript was copied by the prolific Neapolitan scribe Giovan Marco Cinico. The heraldry on the first folio suggests that the Bentivoglio family of Bologna may have commissioned the manuscript. The very end of the third book and most of the fourth book are missing but both are more fully preserved in a copy of the text at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Marson MS 15).
Written in humanist script, possibly by Neapolitan scribe Giovan Marco Cinico
Principal cataloger: Berlin, Nicole
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Polidori, Elisabetta
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 844, no. 498.
Hankins, James. "The dates of Leonardo Bruni's later works (1437-1443)". Studi Medievali E Umanistici/Università Degli Studi Di Messina, Centro Interdipartimentale Di Studi Umanistici, 2009, 11-50.
Ianziti, Gary. Writing history in Renaissance Italy Leonardo Bruni and the uses of the past. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press, 2012.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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