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De amicitia, etc
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Title
De amicitia, etc.
Created
Italy, 1465.
Physical Description
ff. i + 207 + ii : parchment ; 203 x 135 (142 x 77) mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
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.
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".
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1964 by the Yale Library Associates.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment of works by Cicero, Plutarch, Petrus Diaconus, Marcus Valerius Probus, Leonardo Bruni, and Plato.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 06, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 313.
Cicero, De Amicitia, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Cicero, De Amicitia, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Italy - 15th century.
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