Orationes, etc

Description

Title: Orationes, etc
Creator: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created: [between 1425 and 1450]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Cicero, Orationes. With works by Pseudo-Cicero and Pseudo-Sallust
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written by a single scribe in a beautiful humanistic script.
Delicately executed gold initials, 7- to 5-line, filled with white-vine ornament (highlights in pale orange) on blue, pale green, and pale orange ground with brown dots, mark the beginning of each oration. Rubrics (modified square capitals) throughout.
Binding: Eighteenth century. Narrow brown calf spine with brown spattered-paper sides, small vellum corners. Bound for the Convent of San Marco, Florence; rebacked in Yale Library Conservation Studio.
Provenance: From the collection of David Wagstaff; presented to Yale in 1945 by Mrs. David Wagstaff.
Extent: ff. i + 228 + i : 391 x 274 (250 x 173) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially 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.