Cicero, Ps.-Cicero — 15th century, first half; Italian, North-east, Ferrara (?) | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Cicero, Ps.-Cicero — 15th century, first half; Italian, North-east, Ferrara (?)

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. class. c. 7

Place of origin

Italian, North-east, Ferrara (?)

Date

15th century, first half

Language

Latin

(fol.1) Cicero Epistulae ad Brutum

(fol.15) (fol.48) (fol.50v) Cicero Epistulae ad Quintum fratrem

(fol.1) (fol.15) (fol.48) (fol.50v) Ps.-Cicero Epistulae ad Octavianum

(fol.50v) Cicero Epistulae ad Atticum

There are corrections in the text, together with marginal corrections and comments in two contemporary hands, one of them probably that of the corrector of the text. As far as fol.107v many of the spaces left by the scribe for the insertion of Greek words are filled, also by two hands. The second appears only in the long passage on fol.107. The contents to fol.108v are exactly similar to those of cod.Vat. Palat. 1510 (s.XV exeunt.) as described in the edition of Sjogren (praef.vi), namely Books I–III, IV.1–4a, 14, 16. 1–4, 18. 2- end, 17.1–3, 19.1- end, V.1–8, 10, IX.2–4, 6.4–7, 6a. At that point the scribe continues with the remainder of the letters from V.11 in a different style of script. On fol.280v is the inscription ‘Hic est mei Iohanis liber Aurispe’. Aurispa possessed a MS.of Cicero's letters to Atticus (R.Sabbadini, Carteggio di Giovanni Aurispa, Rome 1931, no.91 p.113). However he describes the letters contained in his MS. as ‘completissimae’ so that it cannot be identified with this one.

Form

codex

Support

Paper, watermark three mountains with cross cf.Briquet 11678 – 11728.

Physical extent

iii (modern paper) + 280 + iii (modern paper)

Hands

Humanistic script

Decoration

Plain red initials.

Spaces left for initials.

Binding

Early 18th cent polished brown leather; the spine decorated and lettered in gilt 'CICERONIS | EPIST. | AD ATTIC:' on a title-piece, and 'MS.'; the edges of the leaves speckled red

Acquisition

Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian Library, 1931

Provenance

Ownership inscription of Giovanni Aurispa : 'Hic est mei Iohannis liber Aurispe' (fol. 280v)

Hopetoun Library (bookplate with shelfmark)

John Adrian Louis Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun and 1st Marquis of Linlithgow (1869–1908) , his sale at Sotheby's, 25 Feb. 1889 and three following days, lot 518, bought by Ridler for £1 5s.

Henry White, F.S.A. (d. 1900) , his sale, Sotheby's 21 April 1902 and ten following days, lot 513, bought by Cockerell for £2 10s. (on behalf of?) C. M. Firth .

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