Terence; Cicero

Description

Title: Terence; Cicero
Creator: Terence
Contributor: Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Published / Created: [between 1490 and 1500]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of 1) Life of Terence. 2) Terence, Andria. 3) Terence, Eunuchus. 4) Terence, Heautontimoroumenos. Artt. 5-24: Cicero, Epistolae. 25) Commentary, partly in Italian, on the first letter of Cicero to Lentulus Spinther (some loss due to trimming).
Description: In Latin.
Unidentified watermarks buried in gutter include horn, mermaid in a circle; two distinct birds in circles similar to Briquet Oiseau 12203 and 12220.
Script: Written by multiple scribes in various styles of round humanistic and gothic scripts. One hand supplied most of the glosses on Terence and Cicero and the texts on ff. 143r-145v in italic.
Crude initials mark beginning of each section; rubrics throughout; many letters stroked in red.
Binding: Seventeenth century. Limp vellum case with title lettered in ink down the spine.
Provenance: Bought in 1949 from Stonehill's by Thomas E. Marston who presented it to Yale in 1952.
Extent: ff. viii + 145 + vi : 195 x 141 (142 x 85) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Terence.
Subject (Topic): Latin drama (Comedy)
Latin letters
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Terence
Latin drama (Comedy)
Latin letters
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Terence; Cicero. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.