De partitione oratoria M.T. Ciceronis dialogvs and Partitiones oratoriae
Description:
From the collection of E.K. Schreiber (Firm). Ms. ownership inscriptions on t.p.: Ex conventu minimorum Romanens[is][?]. Bookplate on front pastedown: Sem. Maj. Valentin. Some ms. notes in margins (bled). Ms. remnants used in binding., Includes index., and Signatures: a-x⁸ y¹⁰.
Publisher:
Seb. Gryphium excudebat Lugduni,
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.--Partitiones oratoriae., E.K. Schreiber (Firm) Ownership., Gryphius, Sebastianus, 1493-1556, printer., Minims (Religious order) Ownership., Sem. Maj. Valentin Bookplate., Strébée, Jacques-Louis, d. ca. 1550., and Valla, Giorgio, 1447-1500.
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