University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 61

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DS ID:

DS12630

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 61

Title:

Laelius, sive, De amicitia ; Cato major, vel, De senectute

Author:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Cicero WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

negative (BOX 1057:1) & positive (BANC MS UCB 61 FILM)

Physical Description:

Extent: 65 leaves : parchment, col. ill. ; 233 x 165 (135 x 85) mm. bound to 239 x 170 mm.
Extent: 1 microfilm reel : negative (BOX 1057:1) & positive (BANC MS UCB 61 FILM)

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from opening rubrics (fol. 1r and fol. 35r).
Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 65 + i; 78 ( -6, 7, 8).
Layout: 22 long lines.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script in one hand.
Decoration: 2 large initials in gold with interlaced ribbon pattern (fol. 1, 35), the first with floral, gold-decorated border the length of text; titles and 2-line initials in red.
Binding: Modern vellum.
Origin: Written in southern Italy, probably in the region of Campania, possibly in Naples.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 61.
Former shelfmark: MAR 32.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS PA6304 L2M2.
1. fol. 1r-34v: "[rubr.] M.T.C. Lelius sive de Amicitia Dialogus ad T. Pomponium Atticum Prefatio. [text] Quintus Mutius Augur Scevola multa narrare de C. Lelio Socero suo memoriter et iocunde solebat ... Vos autem hortor ut ita virtutem locetis sine qua amicitia esse non potest ut ea exempta nihil amicitia praestabilius esse putetis."
2. fol. 35r-65r: "[rubr.] M.T. Ciceronis Cato Maior vel de senectute ad Titum Pomponium Atticum prefatio. [text] O Tite si quid ego adiuto curamve levasso Que nunc te coquit et versat sub pectore fixa et qua deprimeris ... Hec habui de Senectute que dicerem ad quam utinam perveniatis ex me audistis re experti probare possitis." Fol. 65v blank.

Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

decorated initials

Manuscripts, Medieval

California--Berkeley

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991035099229706532

IIIF Manifest:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/228905/

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley