Orations; Letters on St Jerome
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10621941
Description
- Title
- Orations; Letters on St Jerome
- Creator
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Contributor
- Eusebius, of Cremona, Saint, -approximately 423.
- Published / Created
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Publication Place
- Northern Italy
- Abstract
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Manuscript on goatskin of Cicero, In Quintum Caecilium divinatio and In Verrem, and texts about St. Jerome by Pseudo-Eusebius of Cremona, Pseudo-Augustine, and Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem
- Description
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In Latin.
Script: Cicero text: copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria under some Humanistic influence. Space for headings and large (10-lines) and small initials was provided. Both were supplied s. XVII in brown ink, the initials in a kind of classicising style (on f. 1r in the shape of a tablet with a faun [?] standing in a landscape holding the stems of a plant with both hands).
Scipt: copied by one hand in Humanistica Textualis.
Decoration: Pale red headings and paragraph marks. Space for large (7-9 lines) and small initials was provided. They were supplied s. XVII in brown ink, by the same hand and in the same style as in the Cicero text.
Binding: 17th century green velvet over pasteboard. At the top of the spine parchment label with s. XVII handwritten inscription "Cic. In Verrem / et / aliquot epi/stolae Patrum / ***." - Provenance
- Collection of Victor Klemperer (1876-1942, of Dresden); his armorial bookplate, with the handwritten shelfmark "1692", on the front pastedown. Sotheby sale 18 June 1991, lot 88. Sotheby sale 3 Dec. 2002, lot 73. Purchased on the fund given by the estate of Edwin J. Beinecke in honor of Herman W. Liebert.
- Extent
- ff. 88 : 285 x 205 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 1016
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420. - Subject (Topic)
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Subjects
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Cicero, Orations; Letters on St Jerome. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9892770
- Object ID (OID)
- 10621941
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