{"id":115,"date":"2020-09-04T23:30:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T23:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/?page_id=115"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:59:41","slug":"humanist-manuscripts-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reed-scriptorium\/manuscripts\/humanist-manuscripts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanist manuscripts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The development of the Humanist script is attributed to the Florentine scholar and Renaissance humanist Poggio Bracciollini (1380\u20131459). As a papal secretary serving under four popes, Poggio was responsible for the rediscovery of several classical Latin manuscripts which he then preserved by copying them in his legible and orderly script. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first dated example of Poggio’s humanistic script.
Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, Ms. <\/em><\/a>Ham. 166<\/em>, f.1r, 1408<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Detail of Ms. Ham. 166<\/em>, f.1r<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another of Poggio’s Cicero manuscripts can be viewed at the Vatican Library, Vat. Lat 3245<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 2005 the Reed College library acquired a manuscript written in a humanistic minuscule. The Beatus vir Psalter and Prayerbook<\/em> dates from around 1510. The manuscript can be viewed through Reed’s digital archives<\/a> or make an appointment to visit the archives and see it for yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beatus vir Psalter and Prayerbook<\/em>, Reed Special Collections, \u00a0BX2033.A3 B43<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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