- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Gellius, Aulus - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400; between 1415 and 1431]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 59
- Image Count:
- 380
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (hairside yellow and speckled) of Cicero, Epistolae ad familiares. With Extract from Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae III.8.8: Epistula Fabricii et Aemilii consulum ad Pyrrhum regem. The text was copied ca. 1400 and the border decoration added between ca. 1415 and 1431.
- Description:
- 14 elegant illuminated initials and partial borders at the beginning of each of the 16 books (the opening pages of Books XII and XV have been excised). Initials, 5- to 3-line, blue with white filigree or red with gold filigree on cusped grounds of gold. Most of the illuminated initials filled with bust-length portraits, presumably of Cicero's correspondents, on red, blue or diapered ground. Some initials filled with vine scrolls with trilobe leaves in red with white highlights against gold ground. Partial borders, scrolling vine with trilobe leaves or acanthus in blue, pink, red and gold with white highlights and green, red and blue with gold highlights. Small figures of angels, dressed in green with gold wings in borders or margins, some playing musical instruments, one holding an open book, one holding the cloth of Veronica. Other marginal figures include the "Agnus Dei" and a pelican piercing its breast. The figures are all characterized by white faces, small angled black eyes, and a preference for green and gold, the green with contour lines in gold. Plain initials alternate red and blue. Rubrics throughout., Binding: Nineteenth century, France (?). Red velvet case with a dark green gold-tooled label: "M. T. Ciceronis Epistolae Ad Familiares MS. in Membranis". Gilt edges., Imperfect: incomplete, some leaves wanting with loss of text., and Script: Written in a neat fere-humanistic hand by a single scribe, below top line.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistolae ad familiares
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- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1000 and 1100] and 11th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1057
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment leaf.
- Description:
- Used as binding for Daemonolatreiae libri tres / Nicolai Remigii serenissimi ducis Lotharingiae a consiliis interioribus, & in eius ditione Lotharingica cognitoris publici, ex iudiciis capitalibus DCCCC. plus minus hominum, qui sortilegii crimen intra annos XV. in Lotharingia capite luerunt ; miris ac iucundis narrationibus, variarum naturalium quaestionum ac mysteriorum daemonicorum discussionibus, valde suaues & grati, adque sales mouendos imprimis apti.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistolae ad familiares
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1460]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1143
- Image Count:
- 236
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Monastic school book, including canon law, and Cicero's De amicitia and De senectute.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Wiblingen (Ulm, Germany)
- Subject (Topic):
- Canon law, Christian education--History, Education, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monastic and religious life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Monastic school book
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- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1035
- Image Count:
- 36
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Pseduo-Cicero, Marci Tullii Ciceronis in Catalinam oratio habita in senatu and Lucij Catiline in Ciceronem responsio. 2) Francesco Griffolini, Oratio Catiline habita Rome a magnifico domino Francisco Aretino ducali oratore ad Paulum Pontificem Secundum. 3) Treatise on rhetoric and grammar in episotlary form. 4) Manuel Guarinus, Manuelis Guarini ad eruditum virum Franciscum pendilaquam responsio.
- Description:
- Disbound from a larger collection but retains original wrapper with watermark depicting two crescent moons and a sickle[?] and Watermark of open scissors with additional character at opening.
- Subject (Name):
- Catiline, ca. 108-62 B.C, Griffolini, Francesco,--1418-1483, and Paul--II,--Pope,--1417-1471
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Rhetoric, Medieval, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Orationes
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Loschi, Antonio, d. 1441 - Published / Created:
- [1420s, between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 6
- Image Count:
- 810
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, composed of two distinct parts, of speeches by Cicero. Introductions to ten of the speeches were composed by Antonio Loschi between 1391 and 1405. The pattern of stains indicates that Parts I and II were once separate; it is unclear when they were bound together.
- Subject (Name):
- Loschi, Antonio,--d. 1441
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Scholia, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Orationes, De oratore, Orator, Brutus, etc.
16.
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1410]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 7
- Image Count:
- 148
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Cicero, Orations.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Bound by Zaehnsdorf (London, 1842-1930) in brown goatskin, blind-tooled, with gold-tooled spine "Cicero" and "MS". Yellow edges. Discoloration on early parchment endleaves reveal traces of corner tongues., Blanks at end not digitzed., Script: The manuscript was copied by two scribes who exhibit distinct formats and scripts reflecting the transition from gothic to humanistic types of book production. Scribe I) ff. 1-107r, line 14. Written in a very fine early humanistic bookhand, above top line. Scribe II) ff. 107r, line 15-135r. Written in a semi-gothic script, below top line, in a style of writing similar to that used by Coluccio Salutati; strong gothic influence in forms of majuscules., and Twenty-three illuminated intials of fine quality, 6- to 2-line, yellow on rectangular bright blue grounds with narrow black frames. Grounds filled with restrained and stylized thin white vine-stem ornament and intricate white filigree. Most spaces for rubrics left unfilled.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Orationes, etc.
17.
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1460]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1016
- Image Count:
- 181
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Cicero, Verrem. With texts about St. Jerome.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome,--Saint,--d. 419 or 20
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Verrem, etc.