Cicero; Plutarch, etc

Description

Title: Cicero; Plutarch, etc
Creator: Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Petrus, Diaconus, of Monte Cassino, ca. 1107-ca. 1140
Plato
Plutarch
Probus, Marcus Valerius
Published / Created: 1465
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of works by Cicero, Plutarch, Petrus Diaconus, Marcus Valerius Probus, Leonardo Bruni, and Plato.
Description: Binding: 17th-18th centuries. Brown/red calf, gold-tooled. Paste decorated edges. On spine, stamped in gold but nearly effaced: "Ciceronis et aliorum varia. MSS 1465".
Initials, 5- to 2-line, ff. 1r, 39v, 71r (space for additional initials on ff. 105v and 149r), gold edged in black with white-vine ornament, against crimson, green and light blue; white-vine extensions in upper and inner margins. On f. 1r a coat of arms in lower margin surrounded by a wreath with a ribbon. 3-, 2-, and 1-line initials in red or blue. Rubrics throughout.
Script: Written in humanistic bookhand below the top line by two persons: Scribe 1) ff. 1r-128r and 149r-191v; Scribe 2) ff. 129r-148v and 192r-207v.
Water damage has obliterated several words in the lower left of f. 1r.
Extent: 1 vol.
22 cm.
color illustrations
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Hand coloring
Inhabited initials
Manuscripts
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic): Classical literature
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Philosophy--Early works to 1800
Roman law

Access: Public
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Citation: Cicero, De Amicitia, 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, MS 313.

Orbis Record: 9788139
Object ID (OID): 2056490
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms313.htm