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61.
De amicitia

Creator:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created:
[1432?]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 781
Image Count:
41
Resource Type:
unspecified
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:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothico-Humanistica Libraria., 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., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Greyish brown paper over cardboard. On the spine a black leather label with the gold-tooled title “CICERO DE AMICITIE. - MS.”.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Subject (Topic):
Dialogues, Latin, Friendship, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De amicitia

62.
De amicitia, Paradoxa Stoicorum

Creator:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created:
[between 1425 and 1450]
Call Number:
Marston MS 258
Image Count:
8
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Cicero, De amicitia. 2) Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar in design to Piccard Schere III.918-19., Script: Written in poorly formed humanistic script with some gothic and cursive elements, perhaps by more than one scribe, above top line., Decoration, all of poor quality, executed by several contemporary hands. On f. 1r, black penwork initial with floral design in center, on square pale red-orange ground, outlined in black; large rectangular frame, in black, connects initial to unidentified arms (or a castle [tower?] proper surrounded by vine, in chief azure [with label of cadency of 4 points argent?] with charge [stars or crosses?] argent) in lower margin. On f. 26r, angular scroll, green with pale red and orange trim, unfurls to form the letter A, 5-line, with an arrow shot through the two shafts to serve as crossbar; green foliage sprouting above. Initials, 5- to 2-line, of similar scroll design for each paradoxon. Rubric on f. 1r in a different hand from those in rest of manuscript. Many elegant pointing hands with fancy cuffs in margins., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Quarter bound in vellum with blue, red, and yellow woodblock paste-paper sides. Traces of inscription on fore-edge (contemporary?) and on vellum strip.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Stoics
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De amicitia, Paradoxa Stoicorum

63.
De amicitia, etc

Creator:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created:
1465.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 313
Image Count:
22
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of works by Cicero, Plutarch, Petrus Diaconus, Marcus Valerius Probus, Leonardo Bruni, and Plato
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in humanistic bookhand below the top line by two persons: Scribe 1) ff. 1r-128r and 149r-191v; Scribe 2) ff. 129r-148v and 192r-207v., Initials, 5- to 2-line, ff. 1r, 39v, 71r (space for additional initials on ff. 105v and 149r), gold edged in black with white-vine ornament, against crimson, green and light blue; white-vine extensions in upper and inner margins. On f. 1r a coat of arms in lower margin surrounded by a wreath with a ribbon. 3-, 2-, and 1-line initials in red or blue. Rubrics throughout., Water damage has obliterated several words in the lower left of f. 1r., and Binding: 17th-18th centuries. Brown/red calf, gold-tooled. Paste decorated edges. On spine, stamped in gold but nearly effaced: "Ciceronis et aliorum varia. MSS 1465".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Philosophy, and Roman law
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De amicitia, etc

64.
De divinatione

Creator:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created:
1456.
Call Number:
Marston MS 181
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (warped and stained by moisture) of Cicero, De divinatione
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in a small humanistic bookhand by a single scribe, above top line. Marginalia added in a contemporary hand., 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., and 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.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Subject (Topic):
Divination, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De divinatione

65.
De finibus bonorum et malorum (fragment).

Creator:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1499].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 682
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Leaf of Cicero (106-43 B.C.), De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (On the Ends of Good and Evil) II.27-28.
Description:
Script: Copied by a single hand in a rather uneven Humanistica Textualis marked by frequent fusions. and Decoration: None. The modern folio number(?), 36, is written in pencil on the recto.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De finibus bonorum et malorum (fragment).

66.
De finibus, etc

Creator:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created:
1460; [between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Marston MS 72
Image Count:
324
Resource Type:
unspecified
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:
In Latin., Watermarks: Briquet Ciseaux 3668., 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., 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., and 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".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. and Foscari, Francesco, 1373-1457.
Subject (Topic):
Eulogies, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De finibus, etc

67.
De natura deorum

Creator:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Marston MS 116
Image Count:
224
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Cicero, De natura deorum
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in round humanistic bookhand, below top line., Spaces for decorative initials left unfilled., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries, Italy. Rigid vellum case with title, in ink, on spine: "Ciceronis de Natura Deorum M. S.". Gilt edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Subject (Topic):
Latin essays and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De natura deorum

68.
De officiis

Creator:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 950
Image Count:
210
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis
Description:
In Latin., The manuscript also includes an anonymous letter, by which the writer presents his father (or a religious person) with a (the present?) manuscript containing Cicero's De officiis, as well as a humanistic oration to a prince, and an anonymous oration., Script: main text copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria., and Binding: s. XX/XXI: undecorated parchment over cardboard.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Subject (Topic):
Latin essays and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De officiis

69.
De officiis, etc

Creator:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1475; ca. 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1015
Image Count:
151
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Cicero, De officiis, with Antonius Geminianensis' oration in honour of Franceso Useppio, added circa 1500
Description:
In Latin., Script: main text copied by one hand in Humanistica Textualis, with gloss in small Humanistica Cursiva Currens. Antonius Geminianensis' oration is written in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria s. XV/XVI. The following moral maxims are in in Humanistica Cursiva s. XVI., Pink headings in Capitalis. The opening words of each book after the initial are in alternately black and pink letters. Alternately red and blue 2-line plain initials (Capitalis)., and Binding: French s. XIX/XX binding: blue morocco over pasteboard, the covers decorated with fillets in blind-tooling; spine with five raised bands and gold-tooled inscription “CICERO / DE / OFFICIIS”.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Subject (Topic):
Latin essays and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De officiis, etc

70.
De oratore, Pro Milone, Pro Ligario

Creator:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created:
1453.
Call Number:
Marston MS 39
Image Count:
316
Resource Type:
unspecified
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:
In Latin., Watermarks: Briquet Echelle 5904, Briquet Fleur 6306, and similar to Briquet Ciseaux 3668., Script: Written in a neat upright humanistic cursive by a single scribe., 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., and 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.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De oratore, Pro Milone, Pro Ligario

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