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Terence; Cicero
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Title
Terence; Cicero.
Created
Italy, [between 1490 and 1500]
Physical Description
ff. viii + 145 + vi : paper ; 195 x 141 (142 x 85) mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Unidentified watermarks buried in gutter include horn, mermaid in a circle; two distinct birds in circles similar to Briquet Oiseau 12203 and 12220.
Script: Written by multiple scribes in various styles of round humanistic and gothic scripts. One hand supplied most of the glosses on Terence and Cicero and the texts on ff. 143r-145v in italic.
Crude initials mark beginning of each section; rubrics throughout; many letters stroked in red.
Binding: Seventeenth century. Limp vellum case with title lettered in ink down the spine.
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Bought in 1949 from Stonehill's by Thomas E. Marston who presented it to Yale in 1952.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on paper of 1) Life of Terence. 2) Terence, Andria. 3) Terence, Eunuchus. 4) Terence, Heautontimoroumenos. Artt. 5-24: Cicero, Epistolae. 25) Commentary, partly in Italian, on the first letter of Cicero to Lentulus Spinther (some loss due to trimming).
Publications
Faye and Bond, pp. 37-38, no. 185.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 13, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 185.
Terence; Cicero. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Terence; Cicero. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Italy - 15th century.
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