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Opusculum de vitiis

Creator:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1425]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 651
Image Count:
147
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of assorted works by Cicero with additional texts
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: 1) Human bust, var. Briquet 15599?. 2) Balance, var. Piccard, Waage 1.78?. (3) Crown, unidentified?., Script: Written by two scribes, one writing in Italian Gothica Hybrida or Semihybrida Libraria and the other in a bold Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria/Formata with numerous decorative hairlines., Red paragraph marks. Art. 3 has yellow heightening of the majuscules, a 2-line and a 3-line flourished initial in red, blue and yellow. In art. 1 the majuscules are heightened in red; there are plain red initials in art. 5, but its decoration is not consistent., and Binding: Damaged original binding in deerskin over heavy almost unbevelled wooden boards. Parchment pastedowns, the front one detached from the board. On the front cover inscription in large Southern Gothica Textualis Formata, worn and difficult to decipher. On the spine a 17th-century paper label with the number "2760" and the title "Huma (?)......Marci Tulii de amicitia manu scripta". Marks of two leather straps fixed to the front cover, the pin holes visible in the rear cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opusculum de vitiis

2.
Orationes, De oratore, Orator, Brutus, etc

Creator:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created:
[1420s, between 1450 and 1475]
Call Number:
Marston MS 6
Image Count:
810
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, composed of two distinct parts, of speeches by Cicero. Introductions to ten of the speeches were composed by Antonio Loschi between 1391 and 1405. The pattern of stains indicates that Parts I and II were once separate; it is unclear when they were bound together
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: unidentified letter B. Part II: Briquet Tete de boeuf 15068, and Piccard Ochsenkopf VII.40., Script: Part I (ff. 1-232): Written by a single scribe in a fere-humanistic script characterized by the broadness of majuscule letter forms; written below top line. Part II (233-398): Written in a small gothic script with cursive features, below top line., Part I: Elegantly decorated title-page (f. 1r) with a full border: in inner and upper margins, thin gold bar with flowers in mauve, blue and gold and stylized foliage in green with pale yellow highlights; in outer and lower margins, floral border of black inkspray with flowers in mauve and blue and with some gold accents and stylized foliage in green. In center of lower margin, a shield with unidentified coat of arms, much rubbed supported by two standing nude female figures with flowing blond hair. One historiated initial, 12-line, mauve, green and pink against gold ground, with extremely fine portrait in profile of a man wearing a two-tiered red cap and academic gown against a blue background with a geometric pattern in black and greyish blue. 6-line initials, blue with red penwork designs alternate red with purple for the beginning of each text. Headings in red., Part II: Red and black divided initial, 6-line, with plain designs on f. 234r; plain red initials some with simple designs, 5- to 2-line, elsewhere. Paragraph marks and initial strokes in red., The dark acidic ink has bled through many leaves; no loss of text., and Binding: Eighteenth century, France. Gold-tooled brown, mottled calf spine. Edges gilt. Boards, composed of paper pasteboard, are detached.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. and Loschi, Antonio, d. 1441.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Orationes, De oratore, Orator, Brutus, etc

3.
Orations; Letters on St Jerome

Creator:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1450]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1016
Image Count:
181
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on goatskin of Cicero, In Quintum Caecilium divinatio and In Verrem, and texts about St. Jerome by Pseudo-Eusebius of Cremona, Pseudo-Augustine, and Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem
Description:
In Latin., Script: Cicero text: copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria under some Humanistic influence. Space for headings and large (10-lines) and small initials was provided. Both were supplied s. XVII in brown ink, the initials in a kind of classicising style (on f. 1r in the shape of a tablet with a faun [?] standing in a landscape holding the stems of a plant with both hands)., Scipt: copied by one hand in Humanistica Textualis., Decoration: Pale red headings and paragraph marks. Space for large (7-9 lines) and small initials was provided. They were supplied s. XVII in brown ink, by the same hand and in the same style as in the Cicero text., and Binding: 17th century green velvet over pasteboard. At the top of the spine parchment label with s. XVII handwritten inscription "Cic. In Verrem / et / aliquot epi/stolae Patrum / ***."
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. and Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Orations; Letters on St Jerome

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