Fordham University, MS 02

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DS ID:

DS26241

Shelfmark:

MS 02

Title:

De Officiis

De officiis

Author:

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cicero WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Albertus de Ponte Rubea

Place:

Italy, Marche

Italy TGN

Marches TGN

Date:

s. XV; 1400-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Binding: Original (?) parchment wrapper inside the present binding.
Number of scribes, ff. 1-47v: 1 in main text; at least 3 in marginalia.
Script, ff. 1-47v: Cursive, with corrections and sporadic marginal notes in a contemporary secretary hand, one set of sporadic marginal notes in a Semi-Gothic Cursive, and one in a Humanist Cursive.
Layout, ff. 1-47v: 41 lines of black ink, frame-colored, with marginal corrections.
Watermarks, ff. 1-47v: Last page of text similar to Briquet, Mons 11656; outer front and rear paper flyeaves unidentified.

Former Owner(s):

Price in dollars and other notes on front pastedown in the hand of Bernard Rosenthal, antiquarian bookdealer (New York; San Francisco; Berkeley).

Bernard M. Rosenthal WIKIDATA

Note:

ff. 1-47v: Copied by Albert of Ponte Rosso (in the province of Fano?) over the course of 9 days, between 8 January and the day before the feat of Anthony abbot which falls on 17 January.
ff. 1-47v: Latin.
ff. 1-47r: Colophon on f. 47r: Completus in mane sancti Antonii de viena et inceptus die octavo presentis mensis ianuarii alberti de ponte rubea. Qui scripsit scripta manus eius sit benedicta. Amen.
Incipit, ff. 1-47r: Vale igitur, mi Cicero, tibique persuade esse te quidem mihi carissimum, sed multo fore cariorem, si talibus monumentis preceptisque letabere.
Explicit, ff. 1-47r: Quamquam te marce filii annum iam audientem cratippum idque athenis habundare.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/MS02_3

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/deofficiis00cice_1/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Fordham University