Boston Public Library, MS f Med.19

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3338

Shelfmark:

MS f Med.19

Title:

De officiis].

Author:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Cicero WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

5 November 1440.

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 77 leaves : parchment ; 260 x 180 (173 x 105) mm bound to 27 x 19 cm, in box 30 cm

Former Owner(s):

Wasservas

Wasservas WIKIDATA

Honore, Godefroy

Godefroy Honore WIKIDATA

Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855

Joseph Barrois WIKIDATA

Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878

Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham WIKIDATA

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962

Sydney Cockerell WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: Atque hec quidem...
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (modern parchment) + 78 + ii (modern vellum) ; 110+1 2-710 86+1 ; catchwords in lower center margin, last verso of each quire. Foliated in modern arabic pencil on the upper outer corner of each page (e.g. 1r, 1v, etc.), begins with "1" on contemporary vellum flyleaf, ends with "78" on contemporary vellum flyleaf at rear (numbers on leaves used here for reference).
Layout: One column, 29 lines. Bounding and writing lines ruled in blind.
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in brown ink with rubrics in red epigraphic capitals.
Decoration: 3-line gold initials on colors on fol. 13v, 20, 76 and 77; 5- to 6-line white vine initials in gold on and filled with colors at incipit of each book, fol. 2, 23v and 53.
Binding: Blocked and tooled two-tone calf cathedral binding, unsigned but attributed by de Ricci to Ducastin (ca. 1830), speckled edges, gold-decorated board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers and flyleaves, rebacked, spine gilt and tooled with red leather labels: "Ciceronis/ officiorum/ libri tres" and "1440." Housed in red cloth clamshell case.
Origin: Written in Italy, 5 November 1440. See colophon.
Provenance: In France by the sixteenth century, where it belonged, ca. 1519-1526, to the French families of Honore and De Wasservas, with their birth, death and marriage notes in French on fol. 78v; given in 1602 by one Jean De Henri, lord of Jenvaux, to his grandson, Maximilien de Jamblins, called Doyon (see inscription on fol. 1 and signature "Max. Doyon" within initial on fol. 2); owned by...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased for the BPL by Syndey Cockerell at the Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 130 (lot number written inside front cover; Cockerell's notes on fol. 2v.
Call number: MS f Med.19.
Former call number: MS G.31.84.
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 64 (this description pasted inside front cover and on fol. iv)

Keyword:

humanistic scripts

Cathedral bindings

Inscriptions

Dates (Provenance)

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Calf bindings

Blocked bindings

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444671

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/d504vn953/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library