Orationes, etc

Description

Title: Orationes, etc
Creator: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1410]
Publication Place: Florence
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Cicero, Orations
Description: In Latin.
Script: The manuscript was copied by two scribes who exhibit distinct formats and scripts reflecting the transition from gothic to humanistic types of book production. Scribe I) ff. 1-107r, line 14. Written in a very fine early humanistic bookhand, above top line. Scribe II) ff. 107r, line 15-135r. Written in a semi-gothic script, below top line, in a style of writing similar to that used by Coluccio Salutati; strong gothic influence in forms of majuscules.
Twenty-three illuminated intials of fine quality, 6- to 2-line, yellow on rectangular bright blue grounds with narrow black frames. Grounds filled with restrained and stylized thin white vine-stem ornament and intricate white filigree. Most spaces for rubrics left unfilled.
Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Bound by Zaehnsdorf (London, 1842-1930) in brown goatskin, blind-tooled, with gold-tooled spine "Cicero" and "MS". Yellow edges. Discoloration on early parchment endleaves reveal traces of corner tongues.
Provenance: Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1948 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. iii + ii + 137 + i + iii : 270 x 183 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
Subjects: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Cicero, Orationes, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.