Ps.-Cicero — 1468; Italian, Cingulo [Cinguli], prov. Macerata
MS. Lat. class. d. 26
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Ps.-Cicero — 1468; Italian, Cingulo [Cinguli], prov. Macerata
Shelfmark
MS. Lat. class. d. 26
Place of origin
Italian, Cingulo [Cinguli], prov. Macerata
Date
1468
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Paper, watermark three mountains and cross cf.Briquet 11702
Physical extent
v (original paper) + 76
Hands
Written in a poor humanist script by Pierus Martini Servantii de S. Severino
Decoration
Blank spaces left for initials not filled in.
Binding
Original binding: sewn on three alum-tawed split straps, laced into wood boards covered with of blind-tooled polished brown leather; remains of a single strap at the fore-edge
Acquisition
Bought by the Bodleian in 1928.
Provenance
Written by Pierus Martini Servantii de S. Severino, 1468
Guglielmo Libri, his sale, 1859, lot 257
Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872), his MS. 23621, but apparently without any of his usual markings; by descent to Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick, inscribed on the lower pastedown 'T F F | Xd 1891'
Phillipps sale at Sotheby's, 21 March 1895 and four following days, lot 177, bought by Tregaskis for £2 15s.
Richard Hancock (bookplate)
E. P. Goldschmidt, with his pencil inscriptions and stock no. '#9890', his cat. XV, no. 9
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