The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1027

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9909

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1027

Title:

De oratore

Author:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Cicero WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

15th century

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 110 : parchment ; 178 x 257 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Humanistic.
Layout: 1-138 148(-7, 8). Catchwords written horizontally in the lower margin. 32 long lines, ruled in ink and dry point, with double bounding lines to the left of the text to form space for initials outside the written area; some pricking visible in the lower and outer margins.
Other Decoration: Two 10-line and one 13-line gold vinestem initials on ff. 1, 34 and 81; the first words of each book in square capitals. Contemporary foliation in red in arabic numerals; red running headlines. Marginalia in various cursive humanistic hands, some giving alternate readings.
Assigned Date: s. XV.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/30/2012.
On f. 107, the name "Bartolo." Belonged to David John Carnegie, 10th Earl of Northesk (1865-1921); his sale, London, 23 July 1914, n. 419 to G. D. Smith; Smith Cat. 13 (1915) n. 236; placed by him in a sale by Anderson, New York, 26 February 1918, n. 116 to G. D. Smith for Henry E. Huntington.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

decorated initials

Oratory

Rhetoric

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862141

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51118/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens