- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 182
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- 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.
- Alternative Title:
- Orator; 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., and 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
- Subject (Name):
- Guarnieri, Stefano--Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Oratory--Early works to 1800, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ciceronis Oratio Gn. pom. contra Mitridatem esse Imparatorem [sic] eligendum
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- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Victorinus, Marius - Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1175]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 86
- Image Count:
- 110
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- 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:
- 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., Contemporary accounts on f. 49v refer to one Jordanus de Walchelina, and to Rotbertus, Liulfus and Leofric. Partially effaced inscription on f. 49v indicates that Stefano Guarnieri (d. 1495) bought the manuscript in Rome in 1465 (see U. Nicolini, "Stefano Guarnieri da Osimo cancielliere a Perugia dal 1466 al 1488," L'umanesimo umbro: atti del XI convegno di studi umbri-Gubiio 22-23 settembre 1974 [Perugia, 1977] pp. 307-23)., On parchment., Purchased from Lathrop Harper in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston., 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., and Written by multiple scribes in cramped early gothic bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Victorinus, Marius and Victorinus, Marius. Explanationes in Ciceronis rhetoricam
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- 1456
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 181
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (warped and stained by moisture) of Cicero, De divinatione.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same bindery for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi) as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 86, 182, 212., Copied in Italy, perhaps in Rome, in 1456 (see colophon in art. 1) by the humanist Stefano Guarnieri probably for his personal use, Imperfect: Water stained at end, f. 57 marginalia excised at fore-edge margin., On parchment, One illuminated initial, 6-line, on f. 28r, gold against blue, green and deep red ground with white vine-stem ornament, joined to a partial border, white vine-stem ornament curling around a thin gold bar on blue, green and deep red ground with white dots on blue, grey on red and pale yellow on green. Headings and running titles in red., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in a small humanistic bookhand by a single scribe, above top line. Marginalia added in a contemporary hand., and Written in a small humanistic bookhand by a single scribe, above top line. Marginalia added in a contemporary hand.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De divinatione and Guarnieri, Stefano--Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic):
- Divination--Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De divinatione
- Creator:
- Alcinous, fl. 2nd cent
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Marsuppini, Carlo, 1398-1453 - Published / Created:
- 1460; [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 72
- Image Count:
- 324
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript in two parts. Part 1 (parchment): Cicero, De finibus bonorum et malorum. Part II (paper): 2) Carlo Aretino Marsuppini, Oratio ad Cosimum et Laurentium de Medicis de matris obitu. 3) Bernardo Giustiniani, Oratio funebris habita in obitu Francesco Foscari Ducis (d. 1457). 4) Epitaph of Francesco Foscari, Doge of Venice (d. 1457). 5) 7-line account, in prose, summarising the accomplishments and life of Francesco Foscari. 6) Alcinous, Epitoma disciplinarum Platonis, translated into Latin by Pietro Balbi. 7) Bernardo Giustiniani, Oratio apud Sixtum IV Pontificem Maximum habita, delivered at Rome in December 1471.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same bindery for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi) as MS 450 and Marston MSS 86, 212, 181, 182, with the first three probably by the same binder. Title, in ink, on tail edge: "C. DE. FI. BO. ET MA"., Part I: 5 illuminated initials, 6- to 4-line, yellow and ochre on blue, green and deep red ground with white vine-stem ornament, sometimes extending into the margins to form partial borders. Headings in red majuscules written by Scribe 2. Part II: 4 illuminated initials, 6-line, dark yellow on irregular grounds of blue, green and pink with white vine-stem ornament, shaded with grey; white dots on blue, pale yellow on green and blue on pink. Headings in red., Script: Part I (ff. 1-90): Copied by two scribes. Scribe 1, ff. 1r-38v, writes in a well formed round humanistic script, below top line and sometimes not using the final line ruled for text. Scribe 2, ff. 38r-90r, is Stefano Guarnieri, who writes in a smaller and less calligraphic humanistic script with cursive features, below top line. Part II (ff. 91-157): Copied by Scribe 2 of Part I: arts. 2-6 in italic, above top line; art. 7 added later, disregards bounding lines of written space., and Watermarks: Briquet Ciseaux 3668.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De finibus bonorum et malorum, Foscari, Francesco,--1373-1457, and Guarnieri, Stefano --Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic):
- Ethics, Ancient, Eulogies, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De finibus, etc.