Orationes, etc.

Description

Title: Orationes, etc.
Creator: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1410]
Publication Place: Florence,
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Cicero, Orations.
Description: Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Bound by Zaehnsdorf (London, 1842-1930) in brown goatskin, blind-tooled, with gold-tooled spine "Cicero" and "MS". Yellow edges. Discoloration on early parchment endleaves reveal traces of corner tongues.
Blanks at end not digitzed.
Script: The manuscript was copied by two scribes who exhibit distinct formats and scripts reflecting the transition from gothic to humanistic types of book production. Scribe I) ff. 1-107r, line 14. Written in a very fine early humanistic bookhand, above top line. Scribe II) ff. 107r, line 15-135r. Written in a semi-gothic script, below top line, in a style of writing similar to that used by Coluccio Salutati; strong gothic influence in forms of majuscules.
Twenty-three illuminated intials of fine quality, 6- to 2-line, yellow on rectangular bright blue grounds with narrow black frames. Grounds filled with restrained and stylized thin white vine-stem ornament and intricate white filigree. Most spaces for rubrics left unfilled.
Extent: ff. iii + ii + 137 + i + iii : parchment ; 270 x 183 mm.
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Annotations
Armorial bookplates
Decorated initials
Illuminated manuscripts
Marginalia
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin

Access: Public
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Citation: Cicero, Orationes, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 7.

Orbis Record: 9805574
OID: 10171234
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars007.htm