De officiis

Description

Title: De officiis
Creator: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1500]
Publication Place: Italy (Pistoia?)
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis
Description: In Latin.
The manuscript also includes an anonymous letter, by which the writer presents his father (or a religious person) with a (the present?) manuscript containing Cicero's De officiis, as well as a humanistic oration to a prince, and an anonymous oration.
Script: main text copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria.
Binding: s. XX/XXI: undecorated parchment over cardboard.
Provenance: The colophon has partly been erased and its original wording is not clear. The first owner was Antonius Pistoriensis (of Pistoia) from Conegliano, a place in the Veneto. He sold it on 17 June 1455 to a Bartholomaeus de Doyono. Until the end of the twentieth century the manuscript was the first section of a volume, the second section of which is now MS 890. This volume was sold at auction by Christie's, London, on 3 June 1998, lot 19. After dismembering, the present first section was sold at auction by Sotheby's, London, in 2001, lot 31. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. 99: 215 x 145 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: paper;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Subject (Topic): Latin essays
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Latin essays
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Cicero, De Officiis. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.