The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1028

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9910

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1028

Title:

Epistolae ad familiares

Author:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Cicero WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1485 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 218 (+ f. 45 bis) : parchment ; 183 x 263 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Humanistic.
Layout: 18 210 38 4-510 68 710 8-98 1010 118 12-1410 158 1610 178 18-1910 208 21-2310 248(-8). Catchwords in the center of the lower margin decorated with 4 diamond-shaped patterns of dots. 29 long lines, ruled in dry point with vertical and horizontal double bounding lines.
Other Decoration: On f. 1, a C-shaped white vinestem border on a red, blue and green ground within a burnished gold frame; in the upper corner, a butterfly; in the middle, a rabbit; in the lower margin, a wreath of laurel leaves with a coat of arms; 7-line initial in gold and enclosed by a gold frame, set on a colored ground, entwined with white vinestem. The rubric of the first book in...
Assigned Date: s. XVex.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/30/2012.
Written in Italy, probably Naples, ca. 1470-80. Owned by Andrea Matteo III Acquaviva d'Aragona (1458-1529), Duke of Atri, whose coat of arms is in the lower border of f. 1, as in Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 8. Belonged to Ambroise Firmin Didot (1790-1876); his sale, Paris, 6 June 1878, n. 5 to Quaritch for Ricardo Heredia y Livermore, Count of Benahavis, whose book label is on the front pastedown...

Keyword:

decorated initials

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862142

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52996/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens