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1. Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione
- Creator:
- Victorinus, Marius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1175]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 86
- Image Count:
- 110
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (warped) of Victorinus, Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione (Explanationes in Ciceronis Rhetoricam). With an Anonymous commentary on Cicero, De inventione I.24-28.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by multiple scribes in cramped early gothic bookhand, above top line. Marginalia by several contemporary and later hands., Seven illuminated initials are later addition (Italy, 1450-1500): 4- to 3-line, gold on blue, red and green ground with white filigree. Black inkspray with gold leaves and balls extending into margins; f. 1r with blue and red flowers. Guide letters for decorator in margins., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same bindery for the Guarnieri-Balleani family (Iesi) as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 181, 182, and 212.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. and Victorinus, Marius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione
2. De amicitia, Paradoxa Stoicorum
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1425 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 258
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Cicero, De amicitia. 2) Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: similar in design to Piccard Schere III.918-19., Script: Written in poorly formed humanistic script with some gothic and cursive elements, perhaps by more than one scribe, above top line., Decoration, all of poor quality, executed by several contemporary hands. On f. 1r, black penwork initial with floral design in center, on square pale red-orange ground, outlined in black; large rectangular frame, in black, connects initial to unidentified arms (or a castle [tower?] proper surrounded by vine, in chief azure [with label of cadency of 4 points argent?] with charge [stars or crosses?] argent) in lower margin. On f. 26r, angular scroll, green with pale red and orange trim, unfurls to form the letter A, 5-line, with an arrow shot through the two shafts to serve as crossbar; green foliage sprouting above. Initials, 5- to 2-line, of similar scroll design for each paradoxon. Rubric on f. 1r in a different hand from those in rest of manuscript. Many elegant pointing hands with fancy cuffs in margins., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Quarter bound in vellum with blue, red, and yellow woodblock paste-paper sides. Traces of inscription on fore-edge (contemporary?) and on vellum strip.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Stoics
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De amicitia, Paradoxa Stoicorum
3. 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
4. De finibus, etc
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- 1460; [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 72
- Image Count:
- 324
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript in two parts. Part 1 (parchment): Cicero, De finibus bonorum et malorum. Part II (paper): 2) Carlo Aretino Marsuppini, Oratio ad Cosimum et Laurentium de Medicis de matris obitu. 3) Bernardo Giustiniani, Oratio funebris habita in obitu Francesco Foscari Ducis (d. 1457). 4) Epitaph of Francesco Foscari, Doge of Venice (d. 1457). 5) 7-line account, in prose, summarising the accomplishments and life of Francesco Foscari. 6) Alcinous, Epitoma disciplinarum Platonis, translated into Latin by Pietro Balbi. 7) Bernardo Giustiniani, Oratio apud Sixtum IV Pontificem Maximum habita, delivered at Rome in December 1471
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: Briquet Ciseaux 3668., Script: Part I (ff. 1-90): Copied by two scribes. Scribe 1, ff. 1r-38v, writes in a well formed round humanistic script, below top line and sometimes not using the final line ruled for text. Scribe 2, ff. 38r-90r, is Stefano Guarnieri, who writes in a smaller and less calligraphic humanistic script with cursive features, below top line. Part II (ff. 91-157): Copied by Scribe 2 of Part I: arts. 2-6 in italic, above top line; art. 7 added later, disregards bounding lines of written space., Part I: 5 illuminated initials, 6- to 4-line, yellow and ochre on blue, green and deep red ground with white vine-stem ornament, sometimes extending into the margins to form partial borders. Headings in red majuscules written by Scribe 2. Part II: 4 illuminated initials, 6-line, dark yellow on irregular grounds of blue, green and pink with white vine-stem ornament, shaded with grey; white dots on blue, pale yellow on green and blue on pink. Headings 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 86, 212, 181, 182, with the first three probably by the same binder. Title, in ink, on tail edge: "C. DE. FI. BO. ET MA".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. and Foscari, Francesco, 1373-1457.
- Subject (Topic):
- Eulogies, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De finibus, etc
5. De natura deorum
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 116
- Image Count:
- 224
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Cicero, De natura deorum
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in round humanistic bookhand, below top line., Spaces for decorative initials left unfilled., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries, Italy. Rigid vellum case with title, in ink, on spine: "Ciceronis de Natura Deorum M. S.". Gilt edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin essays and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De natura deorum
6. De officiis
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 950
- Image Count:
- 210
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis
- Description:
- In Latin., The manuscript also includes an anonymous letter, by which the writer presents his father (or a religious person) with a (the present?) manuscript containing Cicero's De officiis, as well as a humanistic oration to a prince, and an anonymous oration., Script: main text copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria., and Binding: s. XX/XXI: undecorated parchment over cardboard.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin essays and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De officiis
7. De officiis, De oratore, etc
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 4
- Image Count:
- 258
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1-4) Excerpts from an 11th- or early 12th-century supplement to Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni. 5) Ps.-Alexander the Great, Oratio. 6) Cicero, De officiis, with annotations in Middle English. 7) Cicero, De oratore
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Scribe 1) ff. 2r-4r, sloping humanistic cursive script with gothic features; above top line. Scribe 2) ff. 5r-61v, well spaced and well formed gothic script. Scribe 3) ff. 61v-82r, upright English gothic bookhand; below top line. Scribe 4) ff. 85r-119v, upright English gothic bookhand; below top line. Interlinear and marginal glosses in art. 6 in at least two contemporary or slightly later annotating hands., Spaces for decorative intials and most headings remain unfilled; remains of guide letters for arts. 1-5., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries, England. Half bound in dark brown goatskin, gold-tooled, with dark pink cloth sides. Edges spattered red. Title on spine: "Cicero/ De Officiis/ MS./ Saec. XV".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. and Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin essays and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De officiis, De oratore, etc
8. De officiis, etc
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475; ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1015
- Image Count:
- 151
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Cicero, De officiis, with Antonius Geminianensis' oration in honour of Franceso Useppio, added circa 1500
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: main text copied by one hand in Humanistica Textualis, with gloss in small Humanistica Cursiva Currens. Antonius Geminianensis' oration is written in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria s. XV/XVI. The following moral maxims are in in Humanistica Cursiva s. XVI., Pink headings in Capitalis. The opening words of each book after the initial are in alternately black and pink letters. Alternately red and blue 2-line plain initials (Capitalis)., and Binding: French s. XIX/XX binding: blue morocco over pasteboard, the covers decorated with fillets in blind-tooling; spine with five raised bands and gold-tooled inscription “CICERO / DE / OFFICIIS”.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin essays and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De officiis, etc
