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Orationes, etc
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Title
Orationes, etc.
Created
Italy, [between 1425 and 1450]
Physical Description
ff. i + 228 + i : parchment ; 391 x 274 (250 x 173) mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: Written by a single scribe in a beautiful humanistic script.
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.
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.
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
From the collection of David Wagstaff; presented to Yale in 1945 by Mrs. David Wagstaff.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment of Cicero, Orationes. With works by Pseudo-Cicero and Pseudo-Sallust.
Publications
Faye and Bond, p. 28, no. 93.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 15, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 93.
Cicero, Orationes, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Cicero, Orationes, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Italy - 15th century.
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