Harvard University, MS Lat 174

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11003

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 174

Title:

Etsi negotiis familiaribus impediti vix satis ocium studio suppeditare possiumus

Date:

between 1400 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 109 leaves, bound ; 22 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Allen, Samuel

Samuel Allen WIKIDATA

Ricketts, C. L. 1859-1941

Coella Lindsay Ricketts WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from incipit.
Often ascribed to Cornificius, but occasionally attributed to Cicero, or pseudo-Cicero.
Designated as no. 33 in Girolamo Lagomarsini's collation of the text, and inscribed by him (f. 1r): "Hic codex a me Hieronymo Lagomarsino a Societate Jesu cum vulgatis diligenter collatus in mea rhetoricorum Ciceronis operum editione; numero 33 designabitur. Florentie, 21 Octobri 1740."
Written in northeastern Italy, probably in Venice, in a gothic bookhand.
Probably circulated with MS Lat 175.
Bound in pasteboard covered with a vellum leaf from an antiphonal, stained dark green.
In a tray case, 24 cm.
Belonged to Samuel Allen; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 Jan. 1920, no. 11, to Quaritch. Listed earlier in the catalogs of Payne and Foss, London, May 1825, no. 91, Feb. 1826, no. 532, and 1827, no. 1408, when the manuscript included both the Rhetorica ad Herennium and the Disciplina ad scolarium. Belonged to Coella L. Ricketts, Chicago.
Purchased with the Stephen Salisbury fund, 1942.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Medieval

Rhetoric, Ancient

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990093480360203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:18208482

Holding Institution:

Harvard University