Harvard University, MS Lat 177

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DS ID:

DS11008

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 177

Title:

M. T. Ciceronis officiorum ad Marcum Ciceronem filium

Author:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Cicero WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 129 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 26 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Charles Sumner WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from incipit.
Written in Italy, probably in Rome or possibly in Florence, in a rounded humanistic script.
With white ivy vinestem initials, marginalia, and an unidentified coat of arms (f. 1r), illuminated by Gioacchino di Giovanni de Gigantibus.
In a 19th-cent. English gold-tooled brown morocco binding by Francis Bedford.
In a tray case, 28 cm.
Sold by Ellis and White, London, cat. 30 (no date), no. 174; belonged to Charles Sumner by ca. 1871.
Bequest of Charles Sumner, 1874.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Medieval

illuminations (paintings)

Ethics, Ancient

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990093485030203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:17277975

Holding Institution:

Harvard University