Harvard University, MS Lat 176

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DS ID:

DS11011

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 176

Title:

Marci Tullii Ciceronis tusculanarum questionum

Author:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Cicero WIKIDATA

Date:

between 1475 and 1500

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 110 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 26 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Firmin-Didot, Ambroise, 1790-1876

Ambroise Firmin Didot WIKIDATA

Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908

Charles Eliot Norton WIKIDATA

Pugliese family

Pugliese WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in Florence in a humanistic script by Antonius Torrigiani (colophon, f. 109v).
With one portrait initial, acanthus border, and the coat of arms of the Pugliese family of Florence within a laurel wreath (f. 1r).
In a 19th-cent. black morocco blind-stamped binding by Hagué.
In a tray case, 27 cm.
Commissioned by the Pugliese family of Florence (coat of arms, f. 1r); bookplate of Ambroise Firmin-Didot; his sale, Catalogue des livres précieux, manuscrits et imprimés, Paris, 11-16 Jun 1883, v. 5, no. 28, to Hénaux. Belonged to Charles Eliot Norton.
Purchased with funds from the Friends of the Library, 1905.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

illuminations (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990093483230203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:4261855

Holding Institution:

Harvard University