Ciceronis Oratio Gn. pom. contra Mitridatem esse Imparatorem [sic] eligendum

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Title: Ciceronis Oratio Gn. pom. contra Mitridatem esse Imparatorem [sic] eligendum
Alternative Title: Orator; Orationes
Creator: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Contributor: Guarnieri, Stefano--Manuscripts
Published / Created: [ca. 1450]
Publication Place: Northern [?] Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper, composed of two distinct parts. Part I (ff. 1-48): Cicero, Orator ad M. Brutum. Part II (ff. 49-114): Cicero, Orationes.
Description: Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi) in the same bindery as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 86, 181 and probably by the same binder. Title in ink on the tail edge, mostly illegible.
Heading and plain initial, in red, on f. 49r only.
On paper
Part I: Plain initials in red or blue; heading on f. 1r in red majuscules. Part II: Heading and plain initial, in red, on f. 49r only.
Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston.
Script: Each part written in humanistic cursive by a single scribe, above top line.
Watermarks: Part I: unidentified hunting horn, in gutter. Part II, in gutter: similar in design to Briquet Fruit 7380-81.
Written possibly in Northern Italy in the middle of the 15th century. Part II was copied by the humanist Stefano Guarnieri who never completed copying the text
Extent: f. i + i + 114 : paper ; 210 x 145 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: mixed material
Genre: Inscriptions
Manuscripts
Rubrics
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Guarnieri, Stefano--Manuscripts
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Oratory--Early works to 1800
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin

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Citation: Cicero, Orator; Orationes. 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 182.

Orbis Record: 9811687
Object ID (OID): 2057501
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars182.htm