Cicero, De oratore and Orator
St John's College MS 81
St John's College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Cicero, De oratore and Orator
Shelfmark
St John's College MS 81
Place of origin
English
Date
s. xiv in.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Vellum (HSOS/HFFH).
Physical extent
ii + 28 + ii (numbered iii–iv).
Hands
Written in gothic textura semiquadrata , with exaggerated anglicana descenders in the bottom lines, not the usual topline ascenders. Punctuated by point (some adjusted to punctus elevatus), virgula, and punctus elevatus, with a good many later adjustments.
Decoration
An unflourished blue 3-line lombard at the head of item 1.
Elsewhere rubrics unfilled.
Binding
Dark brown leather over millboards, with a plain gold fillet, s. xvii. Sewn on three thongs. ‘81’ in black ink in a paper lozenge pasted to the top of the spine. Modern paper pastedowns, a College bookplate on the front one. At both the front and rear, two modern paper flyleaves; the two leaves at the rear (iii–iv) are still joined at the head.
Provenance
‘Zach Pearce, S. T. P Decan Winton in Praefatione suae Editionis hujus Libri Ciceroniani de Oratore hunc MS tum sic laudat’, with quotation (fol. i, s. xviii).
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