Cicero; Plutarch, etc

Creator:

Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Petrus, Diaconus, of Monte Cassino, ca. 1107-ca. 1140
Plato
Plutarch
Probus, Marcus Valerius

Published/Created:

Italy
1465

Physical Description:

1 vol.
color illustrations
22 cm.

Related Links:

https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms313.htm

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".

Abstract:

Manuscript on parchment of works by Cicero, Plutarch, Petrus Diaconus, Marcus Valerius Probus, Leonardo Bruni, and Plato.

Topics:

Classical literature
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Philosophy--Early works to 1800
Roman law

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Hand coloring
Inhabited initials
Manuscripts

Format:

Text

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

Beinecke MS 313

Orbis Record:

9788139

Orbis Barcode:

39002091596834

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

1244729

Citation:

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.

Extent of digitization:

Partial work digitized.

OID:

2056490

PID:

digcoll:3574929