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1. De amicitia, etc
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- 1465.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 313
- Image Count:
- 22
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- 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., and 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".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Philosophy, and Roman law
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De amicitia, etc
2. De divinatione
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- 1456.
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 181
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- 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., and 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Divination, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De divinatione
3. Opera philosophica
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- 1470.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 284
- Image Count:
- 556
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in italic script by Piero Cennini (b. 1444)., Fine border and initials by Mariano del Buono. 3/4 white-vine border, f. 2r, infilled green, pink, and blue, against a blue ground, with white dots; putti and birds; at the periphery, flowers, gold dots, and hair-spray, especially profuse in lower margin; supported by a trellis, gold, which expands at regular intervals to form roundels. In upper margin, a blossom with fruits, in lower margin, in separate roundels, a hound chasing a stag, against deep landscape backgrounds. Between roundels with animals, the arms of Joannes Vitez, bishop of Gran, in a complex braided roundel, infilled green and blue with white and yellow filigree, and supported by four putti, two of which play musical instruments. One historiated initial, f. 1r, gold, Cicero reading a book, against a blue ground with stylized clouds, all against a green ground with yellow filigree. Thirty-two 7-, 6-, 5-, and 3-line initials, gold, with white-vine infilled green, pink, and blue, with white dots, against blue ground, with vines extending into margin, gold dots and hair-spray. Twelve 4- and 3-line initials, following f. 178, gold, against pink and blue or pink and green grounds, with white and/or yellow filigree. Following initials, one line of square capitals in brown or alternating red and brown. 1-line square capitals in text., The entire codex, including the binding, is in an excellent state of preservation., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Resewn on seven tawed, slit straps laid in channels and nailed into wooden boards. The spine is square, the edges gilt. Covered in ruby-red goatskin, blind-tooled with concentric panels. The rectangular central panel is reduced to a square with rope interlace and the central ornament is a four-pointed star protruding from a quatrefoil within a circle. Five foliate brass catches on the lower board. Stubs of green fabric clasp straps on the upper board. Rebacked; headbands and a gold-tooled spine added. Two catches and all clasps wanting.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Philosophy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opera philosophica
4. Orator; Orationes
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 182
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, composed of two distinct parts. Part I (ff. 1-48): Cicero, Orator ad M. Brutum. Part II (ff. 49-114): Cicero, Orationes
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: unidentified hunting horn, in gutter. Part II, in gutter: similar in design to Briquet Fruit 7380-81., Script: Each part written in humanistic cursive by a single scribe, above top line., Part I: Plain initials in red or blue; heading on f. 1r in red majuscules. Part II: Heading and plain initial, in red, on f. 49r only., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi) in the same bindery as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 86, 181 and probably by the same binder. Title in ink on the tail edge, mostly illegible.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Oratory, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Orator; Orationes
