De officiis, De oratore, etc

Description

Title: De officiis, De oratore, etc
Creator: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1475]
Publication Place: Oxford
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.
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".
Provenance: Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1948 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. i + 123 + i : 221 x 168 (ff. 3-83: 152 x 98; ff. 85-119: 160 x 95) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Subject (Topic): Latin essays
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Latin essays
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Cicero, De Officiis, De Oratore, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.