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That’s a wrap on 100 images from Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries From Philadelphia Libraries! http://bibliophilly.pacscl.org/
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Book of Hours, Use of Rome Siena, ca. 1475; illuminators: Liberale da Verona (miniatures) and Gioacchino de Gigantibus (borders and illuminated initials) The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 118
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Illuminated initial showing a Priest Celebrating Mass; border cartouche with deer; border roundel with deer, possibly from the Missal of Lucrezia de’ Medici Possibly Venice, 1475–76 The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 27:27–29
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Missal for the Use of Rome Southern Netherlands, possibly Hainault, ca. 1530–50 The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 157
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April Showers Bring May Flowers in Books of Hours! Book of Hours, Use of Rome (Hours of Cornelia Rhò) Milan, ca. 1520; illuminator: Giovanni Giacomo Decio The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 206
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Historical Miscellany including Paul the Deacon, Historia romana (Roman History) Italy (Lombardy or Piedmont?), ca. 1450 The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 71
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Leaf from Petrarch, Africa, Book IX Lombardy, ca. 1400 The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 48:4
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Inhabited initial C from a choir book showing Saint John on Patmos Lombardy, ca. 1500; illuminator: Master B.F. The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 72:11a
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Isidore of Seville Sententiae (Sentences) Spain, 12th c. The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 137
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Cicero Epistolae ad familiares (Letters to Friends) Ferrara, 1468; scribe: Gregorio Martinello (colophon on fol. 174v) The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 66 Petrarch had uncovered Cicero’s Epistolae ad Atticum in 1345 in Verona, but it was only in 1392 that Coluccio Salutati brought to light the entire sixteen books that make up the Epistolae ad familiares. Beyond its exemplary style of Latin prose, this collection of letters provided invaluable historical information concerning the final years of the Roman Republic. The present manuscript contains a complete copy of the Epistolae ad familiares, save for the first four letters of book 16, which appear to have been omitted purposefully.
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Horace Epistolae (Epistles); Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry); Satires, Odes, Epodes, Carmen seculare (Song of the Ages) Venice, ca. 1471–73 The Free Library of Philadelphia, Horace MS 2 (previously Lewis E 235a) Horace’s Ars poetica (Art of Poetry) became a foundational text for Renaissance poetics and prompted numerous responses. This manuscript of Horace’s works, which includes the Epistles, Ars poetica, Satires, Odes, and Epodes, was written by two skillful humanist scribes.
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Prayer Book Milan (?), ca. 1510 The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 207 The radiant but somewhat childlike miniatures found in this beautiful Italian Book of Hours reflects the soft style championed by Leonardo da Vinci’s followers Marco d’Oggiono and Bernardino Luini in the region of Lombardia.
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