Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione

Description

Title: Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione
Creator: Victorinus, Marius
Published / Created: [between 1150 and 1175]
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (warped) of Victorinus, Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione (Explanationes in Ciceronis Rhetoricam). With an Anonymous commentary on Cicero, De inventione I.24-28.
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written by multiple scribes in cramped early gothic bookhand, above top line. Marginalia by several contemporary and later hands.
Seven illuminated initials are later addition (Italy, 1450-1500): 4- to 3-line, gold on blue, red and green ground with white filigree. Black inkspray with gold leaves and balls extending into margins; f. 1r with blue and red flowers. Guide letters for decorator in margins.
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same bindery for the Guarnieri-Balleani family (Iesi) as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 181, 182, and 212.
Provenance: Purchased from Lathrop Harper in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. i + 49 + i : 195 x 135 (170 x 103) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Victorinus, Marius.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin essays
Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholia
Subjects: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Victorinus, Marius
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin essays
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholia
France > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Victorinus, Commentarius in Ciceronis De Inventione. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.