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De amicitia
Creator
Title
De amicitia.
Created
Italy (Naples?), [1432?]
Physical Description
ff. i + 16 + i : parchment ; 250 x 180 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
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.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Greyish brown paper over cardboard. On the spine a black leather label with the gold-tooled title “CICERO DE AMICITIE. - MS.”.
In Latin.
Provenance
Purchased from Bernard M. Rosenthal on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund in honor of Herman W. Liebert, Yale 1933.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
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.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
July 22, 2011
References
Cicero, De Amicitia. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Cicero, De Amicitia. 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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