- Creator:
- Arnaldus, de Villanova, d. 1311
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
Vergerio, Pietro Paolo, 1370-1444 - Published / Created:
- ca. 1475
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 14
- Image Count:
- 93
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Arnold of Villanova, Epistola de sanguine humano ad magistrum Iacobum de Toleto. 3) Alchemical procedures. 4) Francesco Petrarca, Epistola ad Marcum Tullium Ciceronem. 5) Pier Paolo Vergerio, Epistola in nomine Ciceronis ad Franciscum Petrarcham. 6) Johannes Obrist, Super confectionem auri potabilis. 7) Nicolaus Claudii, Opus super aurum potabile.
- Description:
- Binding: Modern parchment over pasteboards, parchment pastedowns and guards, back gilt-lettered: "DE QVINTA ESSENTIA"., Headings in red, rubricated., and Script: Written by a single scribe using a clear and regular gothic bookhand without strong nationalistic traits.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical and humanistic miscellany
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- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1410]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 890
- Image Count:
- 152
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Paradoxa. 2) Prophecy in 11 verses added by a slightly later hand on the blank lower half of the page. The text is corrupt. 3) Two rhetorical exercises by an unrecorded author addressed to an emperor, who is praised with all possible exaggeration. 4) Astronomical or computistical table, recording for each month 3 up to 7 days, of which two are superscribed with a cross and an hour, the remaining ones only with the letter "p". The crosses are crutched crosses up to September inclusive, afterwards simple crosses. 5) Notes added by slightly later hands on a blank page; notes on ancient Roman abbreviations; various Latin names applied to the Greeks. 6) Ps.-Cicero, Synonyma, printed from 1487 onward, with 17th century Italian annotations, in the same hand as in art. 1, found in the margins of ff. 23v-25r. 7) Ps.-Sallustius, Invectiva in Marcum Tullium Ciceronem.
- Description:
- Binding: Twentieth century. Yellow parchment over light cardboard, with turned edges., Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley, California (MS 211). Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., In the original parts all initials are missing; at the opening of art. 6 the upper half of f. 17r is blank (in view of a picture which was not executed?) and a later hand has entered a large and coarse initial “C” (8 lines) containing a human face; in that art. there are guide letters for the small initials which were intended to open each entry; a few of these initials were added afterwards. The initial planned at the opening of art. 7 is 6 lines high. The opening lines of art. 1 are in a large fanciful display script overdecorated with flourishes and almost illegible. There is some pale red stroking of the majuscules on ff. 68v, 69r and 70v., Script: The original parts are copied by two scribes: A copied art. 1 in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Currens; B, writing a bold Gothica Cursiva Formata with “northern” features and marked by lengthened and decorated ascenders on the top line, copied artt. 4, 6 and 7. The additional texts, copied on blank spaces or pages, are in badly shaped Humanistica Cursiva (art. 2), slovenly executed Gothica Semihybrida Currens (art. 3), Humanistica Cursiva (art. 5, [1] and [2]) and Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva (art. 5, [3] and [4])., and There are remnants of an early foliation in arabic numerals (17th century?) in the upper outer corner of the recto pages, starting f. 16 ("1").
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Stoics
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cicero, Pseudo-Cicero, Pseudo-Sallust, etc.
- 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
4.
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [1432?]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 781
- Image Count:
- 41
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Laelius de amicitia. With marginal corrections by the scribal hand and interlinear and marginal glosses and variants by various contemporary hands.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Greyish brown paper over cardboard. On the spine a black leather label with the gold-tooled title “CICERO DE AMICITIE. - MS.”., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothico-Humanistica Libraria., and The decoration is missing, but there are guideletters and spaces for 1-line initials (for the interlocuting personages) and 2-line initials (f. 1v). At the opening of the text space for a 7-line initial.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dialogues, Latin, Friendship, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De amicitia
- 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.
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 116
- Image Count:
- 224
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Cicero, De natura deorum.
- Description:
- Acquired in 1953 from C. A. Stonehill by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: 18th-19th centuries, Italy. Rigid vellum case with title, in ink, on spine: "Ciceronis de Natura Deorum M. S.". Gilt edges., Script: Written by a single scribe in round humanistic bookhand, below top line., and Spaces for decorative initials left unfilled.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De natura deorum
7.
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 950
- Image Count:
- 210
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De officiis
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 4
- Image Count:
- 258
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1-4) Excerpts from an 11th- or early 12th-century supplement to Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni. 5) Ps.-Alexander the Great, Oratio. 6) Cicero, De officiis, with annotations in Middle English. 7) Cicero, De oratore.
- Description:
- Binding: 19th-20th centuries, England. Half bound in dark brown goatskin, gold-tooled, with dark pink cloth sides. Edges spattered red. Title on spine: "Cicero/ De Officiis/ MS./ Saec. XV"., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1948 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Scribe 1) ff. 2r-4r, sloping humanistic cursive script with gothic features; above top line. Scribe 2) ff. 5r-61v, well spaced and well formed gothic script. Scribe 3) ff. 61v-82r, upright English gothic bookhand; below top line. Scribe 4) ff. 85r-119v, upright English gothic bookhand; below top line. Interlinear and marginal glosses in art. 6 in at least two contemporary or slightly later annotating hands., and Spaces for decorative intials and most headings remain unfilled; remains of guide letters for arts. 1-5.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De officiis, De oratore, etc.
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1470; ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1015
- Image Count:
- 151
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Cicero, De officiis. With Antonii geminianensis oratio ad equitem Franciscum concivm, added ca. 1500.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De officiis, etc.
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- 1453
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 39
- Image Count:
- 316
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (coarse; remains of deckle edges) of 1) Cicero, De oratore I-III. 2) Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone. 3) Cicero, Pro Q. Ligario.
- Description:
- Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Stays cut from parchment manuscripts (text washed) inside the quires and also outside the first two. Original sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps attached to wooden boards. Beaded, chevron, natural, pink, and green endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores. Covered in dark brown calf with narrow corner tongues and blind- tooled with two circles and corners of rope interlace in a central panel with concentric frames, one with beaded zigzag ribbon tools similar to those on Marston MSS 38 and 68, and gilt annular dots. Spine: double fillets at head and tail and outlining the bands; panels diapered with double fillets. Two fastenings, the catches on the lower board; the straps and clasps probably later additions., Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 2814). Passed from the collection of Giuseppe (Joseph) Martini to H. P. Kraus, who sold it to Thomas E. Marston in 1955., Partial border, f. 1r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green and pink ground with white and pale yellow dots. At the terminals, gold balls with hair-line extensions. Illuminated initial, 4-line, gold on blue, green and red ground as above joined to the border. In lower margin, wreathed medallion for arms (drawn with a compass), blank. Five smaller initials, 4- and 3-line, gold on blue, green and red rectangular grounds with white or pale yellow filigree and white dots. Headings and colophons in red., Script: Written in a neat upright humanistic cursive by a single scribe., and Watermarks: Briquet Echelle 5904, Briquet Fleur 6306, and similar to Briquet Ciseaux 3668.
- 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 > De oratore, Pro Milone, Pro Ligario