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Holkham Ms. 487: Humanist miscellany with a strongly Venetian bent, compiled in the Veneto in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century (after 1463), and written in several hands. Texts include: Pier Paolo Vegerio, De ingenuis moribus; letters to and from him; letter from Leonardo Bruni to ‘Francisco barbaro suo; Niccolo Volpe, Elegia (inc: Est gravis ille labor quem premia nulla sequuntur) ; letters between Aristotle, Philip and Alexander; letters of Leonardo Giustinani, Volpe, Pius II; Hippocratic oath in Latin with Bruni’s Invectiva against it (?); treatises by Poggio, Lauro Quirini, Bonaccursio De nobilitate and speeches by and Publius Cornelius Scipionis and Gaius Flaminius on the same subject; Poggio, letter to Gregorium Corarium; Bonaccursio, Oratio pro Catellinam et contra Ciceronem; Isocrates, Ad demonicum; Dares Phrygius, De excidio Troiae with prefatory material; Ruffius Sextus, on Augustus (inc: Brevem fieri clementia tua); De aedificatione ventiarum (possibly from the Rufus text?); prophecies and verses in Latin and Italian; Giustiniani, Primus patriarcha Venetiarum. (For further description see M. Davis, "Letters of Bruni" in Bolletino Storico italiano del medio evo, c. 1990. De Ricci, Handlist, 43; Kristeller, Iter, IV, 46)
Filmed with Ms. 521, copied by Felice Feliciano in 1462, and comprising sonnets in Italian by Feliciano and other poets.