Indiana University Bloomington, Ricketts 222

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS569

Shelfmark:

Ricketts 222

Title:

Tusculanae disputationes
De finibus
De legibus

Author:

Cicero

Cicero WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Leonardus Job

Leonardus Job WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

s. XV(3/4); 1450-1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Contemporary binding of slightly bevelled wooden boards sewn on four bands, covered with brown goatskin, blind-stamped, panelled with a broad frame of multiple impressions of ropework stamps, central compartments stamped in elaborate geometric pattern based around an 8-pointed star within concentric frames of ropework stamps and small plugs and rosettes, lacking 4 pairs of metal...
Other decoration, ff. 204: Eighteen large white-vine (bianchi girariin Italian) illuminated initials (fols. 2v, 23v, 25r, 36r, 52v, 54r, 69r, 71r, 91r, 103v, 125v, 139r, 154r, 173r, 183v, 187r, 188r and 196v), first and last leaves in facsimile.
Number of scribes, ff. 204: One.
Script, ff. 204: Humanistic Minuscule.
Layout, ff. 204: Collation: i#^9+1# [of 10, lacking i, replaced with a facsimile leaf ], ii–vii#^10#, viii#^9+1# [of 10, blank x canceled, replaced with a substitute blank], ix–xix#^10#, xx#^3+1# [of 4, lacking iv, replaced with a facsimile leaf ], with horizontal catchwords within radiating flourishes; vertical ruling in blind, horizontal ruling not visible, 33 lines, written-space 225 mm. by...

Former Owner(s):

Count Giacomo Maria Manzoni (1816-1889), Roman minister of finance, Guglielmo Libri’s executor; his sale, IV, Rome, 23 April 1894, lot 67; Edward Robinson (1858-1931), classicist and later director of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, bought in Venice from L. S. Olschki, 1894, given by him on 31 January 1906 to Henry W. Poor (1844-1915).

Giacomo Manzoni WIKIDATA

Count Giacomo Maria Manzoni (1816-1889), Roman minister of finance, Guglielmo Libri’s executor; his sale, IV, Rome, 23 April 1894, lot 67; Edward Robinson (1858-1931), classicist and later director of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, bought in Venice from L. S. Olschki, 1894, given by him on 31 January 1906 to Henry W. Poor (1844-1915).

Edward Robinson WIKIDATA

Count Giacomo Maria Manzoni (1816-1889), Roman minister of finance, Guglielmo Libri’s executor; his sale, IV, Rome, 23 April 1894, lot 67; Edward Robinson (1858-1931), classicist and later director of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, bought in Venice from L. S. Olschki, 1894, given by him on 31 January 1906 to Henry W. Poor (1844-1915).

Leo S. Olschki Editore WIKIDATA

Count Giacomo Maria Manzoni (1816-1889), Roman minister of finance, Guglielmo Libri’s executor; his sale, IV, Rome, 23 April 1894, lot 67; Edward Robinson (1858-1931), classicist and later director of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, bought in Venice from L. S. Olschki, 1894, given by him on 31 January 1906 to Henry W. Poor (1844-1915).

Henry William Poor WIKIDATA

"as a souvenir of the happy days with which I have begun my life in New York" (letter enclosed), with Poor’s leather booklabel; his sale, New York, 17 November 1908, lot 799, to Morris; Walter T. Wallace (1866-1922), with his armorial bookplate; his sale, New York, 22 March 1920, lot 229, to C. L. Ricketts; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Walter Thomas Wallace WIKIDATA

"as a souvenir of the happy days with which I have begun my life in New York" (letter enclosed), with Poor’s leather booklabel; his sale, New York, 17 November 1908, lot 799, to Morris; Walter T. Wallace (1866-1922), with his armorial bookplate; his sale, New York, 22 March 1920, lot 229, to C. L. Ricketts; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Coella Lindsay Ricketts WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript note: The Lilly manuscript lacks its first and last leaves, which may have had a patron’s arms or a scribe’s colophon, now replaced in skillful facsimile.
Bibliography: Tenneroni 1894, p. 64; De Ricci 1935, p. 652; Kristeller 1990, p. 220.
ff. 204: Latin.
Incipit, ff 1r-89v: inveniri levatio, FINIS / DEO GRATIAS / AMEN.
Explicit, ff 1r-89v: Cum defensionum laboribu...summam eruditionem graeci.
Incipit, Ff. 91r-172v.: perreximus omnes, Finis / Deo Gratias / Amen.
Explicit, Ff. 91r-172v.: Non eram nescius Brute.
Incipit, Ff. 173r-204v.: de privatis magistratibusve. . . dicis expecto, FINIS / DEO GRATIAS / AMEN.
Explicit, Ff. 173r-204v.: Lucus quidem ille & haec.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/Ricketts222_40

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_Ricketts222_40/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Indiana University Bloomington