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DS ID:

DS26246

Shelfmark:

MS 01

Title:

De Officiis

De officiis

Marci Tulii ciceronis arpinatis consulisque romani ac oratoris maximi ad M.T.C. filium suum officiorum liber incipit.

De officiis

Formula honestae vitae Verses

Verses

Document?

Document

Author:

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cicero WIKIDATA

Martin of Braga

Martin of Braga WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Bernhardinus Zwingg

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

1475?; s. XV(4/4); 1475-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

s. XV(2); 1450-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

s. XV; 1400-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

German

German WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Binding: Vellum over wooden boards cut flush to the book block; unidentified parchment ms as the pastedown. On the binding, the sticker of Baldassare Boncompagni, and the number 193 painted on the spine (from Narducci catalogue).
Other decoration, ff. i + 1 - 139: Some red rubrics, occasional strikethroughs in red ink, red initials.
Number of scribes, ff. i + 1 - 139: At least 2.
Script, ff. i + 1 - 139: Cursive.
Layout, ff. i + 1 - 139: 25 long lines in brown ink; later folios block-ruled in pencil.
Watermarks, ff. i + 1 - 139: Bull's head, closest to Briquet 15160 (Rappoltsweiler, 1473).
Figurative details, ff. 149 - 168: Drawing of a human leg in brown ink, f. 151.
Other decoration, ff. 149 - 168: One large initial in red ink (f. 149), several simple decorated initials in brown ink, occasional accenting in red.
Number of scribes, ff. 149 - 168: At least 2.
Script, ff. 149 - 168: Gothic cursive, secretary.
Layout, ff. 149 - 168: Text 1: one column of 25 lines in brown ink, unruled. Text 2: one column of 18 lines in brown ink, faintly ruled in crayon. Text 3: one long column of 33 lines in brown ink, unruled.
Watermarks, ff. 149 - 168: Letter "P" closest to Briquet 8601 (Troyes, 1467; Colmar, 1467; Siegen, 1469).
Number of scribes, f. 1r-v: 1.
Script, f. 1r-v: Secretary.
Layout, f. 1r-v: Cutting with one column of text (6 lines) in brown ink.

Former Owner(s):

On inside cover "Jacobus Wecker est possessor huius liber de Marckdorff"; Pietro Girometti (1812-1859), his number 28; this collection purchased by Baldassare Boncompagni (1821-1894) in 1856; Boncompagni sale, 1898, lot 162. Note on f. i by B. Rosenthal.

Pietro Girometti WIKIDATA

Baldassarre Boncompagni WIKIDATA

Bernard M. Rosenthal WIKIDATA

Associated Agent(s):

Seneca, associated with

Note:

Manuscript note: Modern pencil pagination (mis-numbered and revised); strips of parchment (cut to reach approx. 15mm from gutter) as reinforcement of the paper gatherings.
Bibliography: Enrico Narducci, Catalogo di manoscritti ora posseduti da Baldassare Boncompagni(Rome: Tipografia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche, 1862), No. 193, p. 79.
ff. i + 1 - 139: Unidentified signature (?) on f. 15r; on f. 139v, "Scriptor huius libri est bernhardinus Zwingg <?> Tempore illo 1475 (?)."
ff. i + 1 - 139: Latin.
ff. 149 - 168: Latin.
f. 1r-v: Used for reinforcement between the paper gatherings of the manuscript and located after f. 168 and partially pasted to the back cover.
f. 1r-v: Latin.
ff. 2-138v, ff. 139-148v blank except for notes: On f. 138v, after end of text, 2 epigrams of Cicero (Hans Walther, Initia carminum19546 & 8719); on f. 148, nine lines about conjugation of "velle."
Incipit, ff. 2-138v, ff. 139-148v blank except for notes: Vale igitur mi Cicero, tibique persuade te michi quidem esse carissimum, sed multo fore cariorem, si talibus monumentis preceptisque letabere.
Explicit, ff. 2-138v, ff. 139-148v blank except for notes: Quamquam te Marce fili annum iam audientem cratippum idque Athenis abundare.
Incipit, ff. 149-155v: velut in quodam meditullio summitatis adsistens quasi per abrupta altrinsecus precipitia aut ruentem compos ipse devitet insaniam aut deficientem contempnet ignaviam. Amen. Explicit tractatus senece de quatuor virtutibus cardinalibus. E.K.H.S.
Explicit, ff. 149-155v: Quatuor virtutum species multorum sapientium sententiis diffinite sunt quibus humanus animus comptus ad honestatem vite possit accedere.
ff. 155v-158, f. 158v blank: Eight sets of verses, including Walther, Initia carminum4795 (the 4th set), 10361 (the 5th set), 10534 (the 6th set, often attributed to Gallus), 16941 (the 7th set), 16956 (the 8th set).
Explicit, ff. 155v-158, f. 158v blank: Iudei interea quoniam sua festa manebant.
ff. 159-168v: Begins in a similar manner to Cicero, De oratoreBook II, chap. VIII.31.
Incipit, ff. 159-168v: Cavendum tamen est ut cum in dicendo.
Explicit, ff. 159-168v: Nunc ego propono quod michi persuasi quamvis ars ut sit tamen nichil esse profecto oratori preclarius cui in primis ea que de orationis ipsius ornamentatione traderentur necessaria fore conspicere.
Incipit, f. 1r-v: obg[...]bnen dingen hargus?nderlich be?usst und erfordert.
Explicit, f. 1r-v: gemalt cyn offner und gesthmorner Notarn hy allen un yeglichem ong[...].

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/MS01_3

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/marcituliicicero00cice/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Fordham University