De officiis, De oratore, etc.
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Description
- Title
- De officiis, De oratore, etc.
- Creator
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Publication Place
- Oxford,
- Abstract
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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
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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".
Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1948 by Thomas E. Marston.
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. - Extent
- ff. i + 123 + i : parchment ; 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
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Marston MS 4
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- text
- Genre
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Annotations
Manuscripts
Marginalia - Material
- parchment
- Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic)
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Latin essays
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
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
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Cicero, De Officiis, De Oratore, 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 4.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9805536
- Object ID (OID)
- 11173516
- More Information
- https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars004.htm
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