De divinatione

Description

Title: De divinatione
Creator: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created: 1456.
Publication Place: Rome (?)
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (warped and stained by moisture) of Cicero, De divinatione
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in a small humanistic bookhand by a single scribe, above top line. Marginalia added in a contemporary hand.
One illuminated initial, 6-line, on f. 28r, gold against blue, green and deep red ground with white vine-stem ornament, joined to a partial border, white vine-stem ornament curling around a thin gold bar on blue, green and deep red ground with white dots on blue, grey on red and pale yellow on green. Headings and running titles in red.
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same bindery for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi) as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 86, 182, 212.
Provenance: Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. v + 58 + i : 193 x 131 (131 x 79) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Marston MS 181
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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): Divination
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin essays
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Divination > Early works to 1800
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin essays
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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