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., and 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.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
