Ciceronis Oratio Gn. pom. contra Mitridatem esse Imparatorem [sic] eligendum

Creator:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Published/Created:

Northern [?] Italy
[ca. 1450]

Physical Description:

f. i + i + 114 : paper ; 210 x 145 mm.

Related Links:

https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars182.htm

Notes:

On paper
Heading and plain initial, in red, on f. 49r only.
Written possibly in Northern Italy in the middle of the 15th century. Part II was copied by the humanist Stefano Guarnieri who never completed copying the text
Watermarks: Part I: unidentified hunting horn, in gutter. Part II, in gutter: similar in design to Briquet Fruit 7380-81.
Script: Each part written in humanistic cursive by a single scribe, above top line.
Part I: Plain initials in red or blue; heading on f. 1r in red majuscules. Part II: Heading and plain initial, in red, on f. 49r only.
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi) in the same bindery as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 86, 181 and probably by the same binder. Title in ink on the tail edge, mostly illegible.
Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston.

Abstract:

Manuscript on paper, composed of two distinct parts. Part I (ff. 1-48): Cicero, Orator ad M. Brutum. Part II (ff. 49-114): Cicero, Orationes.

Variant Titles:

Orator; Orationes

Topics:

Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Oratory--Early works to 1800
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin

Topics:

Guarnieri, Stefano--Manuscripts

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Inscriptions
Manuscripts
Rubrics

Format:

Mixed Material

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

Marston MS 182

Orbis Record:

9811687

Orbis Barcode:

39002104684775

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

1250180

Citation:

Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 182.
Cicero, Orator; Orationes. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Extent of digitization:

Partial work digitized.

OID:

2057501

PID:

digcoll:3587323