Cicero, Moral extracts, Canon law

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Title: Cicero, Moral extracts, Canon law
Published / Created: [ca. 1450]
Publication Place: Southern Germany
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of (1) M. Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Laelius de amicitia; (2) Cicero, Cato Maior de senectute; (3) moral examples from antiquity; (4) commentary on parts of Canon Law
Description: In Latin.
Script: Artt. 1-2 (ff. 1-38) are copied in Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Currens, except f. 6v, which is in Semihybrida Libraria; art. 3 is copied in Gothica Semihybrida Currens; art. 4 is copied in Gothica Semihybrida Currens in two sizes (large for the texts and small for the commentaries); and art. 5 (the former pastedowns) are written in Gothica Textualis, with the marginal notes in small Gothica Hybrida.
Decoration: Undecorated,; the former pastedowns (art. 5) contain Arabic numerals in black, red, and blue.
Binding: original, damaged brown calfskin over wooden boards sewn on three cords; covers are blind-tooled and stamped; two original clasps were replaced by a single clasp (now lost); spine with paper label.
Provenance: The manuscript belonged to the Benedictine abbey of Wiblingen, near Ulm, in the 17th century. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. 114 : 200 x 140 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: Paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Wiblingen (Ulm, Germany)
Subject (Name): Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Subject (Topic): Canon law
Christian education
History
Education, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Monastic and religious life
Subjects: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Canon law
Christian education > History
Education, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Monastic and religious life
Wiblingen (Ulm, Germany)
Germany > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Cicero, Moral extracts, Canon law. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.