Orationes, etcCicero, Marcus Tullius[between 1425 and 1450]latManuscript on parchment of Cicero, Orationes. With works by Pseudo-Cicero and Pseudo-SallustIn Latin.Script: Written by a single scribe in a beautiful humanistic script.Delicately executed gold initials, 7- to 5-line, filled with white-vine ornament (highlights in pale orange) on blue, pale green, and pale orange ground with brown dots, mark the beginning of each oration. Rubrics (modified square capitals) throughout.Binding: Eighteenth century. Narrow brown calf spine with brown spattered-paper sides, small vellum corners. Bound for the Convent of San Marco, Florence; rebacked in Yale Library Conservation Studio.