De amicitia, etc

Description

Title: De amicitia, etc
Creator: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Contributor: Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444.
Petrus, Diaconus, of Monte Cassino, approximately 1107-approximately 1140.
Plato.
Plutarch.
Probus, Marcus Valerius.
Published / Created: 1465.
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of works by Cicero, Plutarch, Petrus Diaconus, Marcus Valerius Probus, Leonardo Bruni, and Plato
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in humanistic bookhand below the top line by two persons: Scribe 1) ff. 1r-128r and 149r-191v; Scribe 2) ff. 129r-148v and 192r-207v.
Initials, 5- to 2-line, ff. 1r, 39v, 71r (space for additional initials on ff. 105v and 149r), gold edged in black with white-vine ornament, against crimson, green and light blue; white-vine extensions in upper and inner margins. On f. 1r a coat of arms in lower margin surrounded by a wreath with a ribbon. 3-, 2-, and 1-line initials in red or blue. Rubrics throughout.
Water damage has obliterated several words in the lower left of f. 1r.
Binding: 17th-18th centuries. Brown/red calf, gold-tooled. Paste decorated edges. On spine, stamped in gold but nearly effaced: "Ciceronis et aliorum varia. MSS 1465".
Provenance: Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1964 by the Yale Library Associates.
Extent: ff. i + 207 + ii : 203 x 135 (142 x 77) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 313
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Genre: Early works to 1800
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): Classical literature
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Philosophy
Roman law
Subjects: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Classical literature
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Philosophy > Early works to 1800
Roman law
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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