University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 62

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DS ID:

DS12631

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 62

Title:

Laelius, sive, De amicitia ; Paradoxa stoicorum ; De officiis

Author:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Cicero WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

ca. 1430

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 99 leaves : paper and parchment ; 203 x 140 (145 x 90) mm. bound to 215 x 143 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from opening or closing rubrics of individual texts (fol. 20v, 21v, 22r).
Collation: Paper and parchment (outer and inner folios of each quire in parchment; watermarks hard to distinguish), fol. i + 99 + i; 114 214 ( -9) 3-714 810 ( -9, 10); some catchwords.
Layout: 28 long lines (fol. 1-73) and 26 long lines (fol. 74-99), ruled with hard point.
Script: Written in semi-cursive humanistic script by 2 scribes: scribe 1, fol. 1r-73v; scribe 2, 74r-99v.
Decoration: 2 2-line initials in red; large initial and 5 lines of display capitals (fol. 22r) possibly added.
Binding: Modern boards.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 62.
Former shelfmark: MAR 10.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS PA6304 L2M22.
1. fol. 1r-20v: [De amicitia] "[text] [Q]uintus Mutius Augur Scaevola multa narrare de Caelio Laelio socero suo memoriter et iocunde solebat ... sine qua amicicia esse non potest ut ea excepta nihihil [sic] amicicia praestabilius putetis."
2. fol. 21r-v: [Paradoxa ad Brutum] "[text] [A]nimadverti Brute sepe Catonem avunculum tuum, cum in senatu sententiam diceret ... eoque hos locos scripsi libentius quod mihi ista que paradoxa" [ends abruptly].
3. fol. 22r-99v: "[rubr.] Marci Tullii Ci. ad M. filium off. liber primus incipit. [text] Quamquam te Marce fili annum iam audientem Cratipum idque Athenis abundare oporteat ... sed multo fore cariorem si talibus monumentis praeceptisque laetabere. Deo gratias."
4. fol. 99v: [Anthol. lat. 784-785] "[text] Tullius hesperios cupiens componere mores/ ... Hic plus sole micat cruciatus propter honestum."

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

decorated initials

illuminated manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

California--Berkeley

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991035099279706532

IIIF Manifest:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/228906/

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley