Epistolae ad familiares
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Description
- Title
- Epistolae ad familiares
- Creator
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Contributor
- Gellius, Aulus.
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1400; between 1415 and 1431]
- Publication Place
- Northwestern Italy; Netherlands
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment (hairside yellow and speckled) of Cicero, Epistolae ad familiares. With Extract from Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae III.8.8: Epistula Fabricii et Aemilii consulum ad Pyrrhum regem. The text was copied ca. 1400 and the border decoration added between ca. 1415 and 1431
- Description
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In Latin.
Script: Written in a neat fere-humanistic hand by a single scribe, below top line.
14 elegant illuminated initials and partial borders at the beginning of each of the 16 books (the opening pages of Books XII and XV have been excised). Initials, 5- to 3-line, blue with white filigree or red with gold filigree on cusped grounds of gold. Most of the illuminated initials filled with bust-length portraits, presumably of Cicero's correspondents, on red, blue or diapered ground. Some initials filled with vine scrolls with trilobe leaves in red with white highlights against gold ground. Partial borders, scrolling vine with trilobe leaves or acanthus in blue, pink, red and gold with white highlights and green, red and blue with gold highlights. Small figures of angels, dressed in green with gold wings in borders or margins, some playing musical instruments, one holding an open book, one holding the cloth of Veronica. Other marginal figures include the "Agnus Dei" and a pelican piercing its breast. The figures are all characterized by white faces, small angled black eyes, and a preference for green and gold, the green with contour lines in gold. Plain initials alternate red and blue. Rubrics throughout.
Binding: Nineteenth century, France (?). Red velvet case with a dark green gold-tooled label: "M. T. Ciceronis Epistolae Ad Familiares MS. in Membranis". Gilt edges. - Provenance
- Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 24346). Acquired from Dudley M. Colman, through C. A. Stonehill, in 1954 by Thomas E. Marston.
- Extent
- ff. i + i + 182 + i + i : 263 x 180 (180 x 117) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Marston MS 59
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Netherlands 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic)
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin letters
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin letters
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Netherlands > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Cicero, Epistolae ad Familiares. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9807165
- Object ID (OID)
- 10269813
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