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)
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
Manuscript on parchment of Cicero, Orationes. With works by Pseudo-Cicero and Pseudo-Sallust.
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth century. Narrow brown calf spine with brown spattered-paper sides, small vellum corners. Bound for the Convent of San Marco, Florence; rebacked in Yale Library Conservation Studio., Delicately executed gold initials, 7- to 5-line, filled with white-vine ornament (highlights in pale orange) on blue, pale green, and pale orange ground with brown dots, mark the beginning of each oration. Rubrics (modified square capitals) throughout., and Script: Written by a single scribe in a beautiful humanistic script.
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