Commentary on Ps.-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium — 14th century; Italian
MS. Lat. class. d. 36
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Commentary on Ps.-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium — 14th century; Italian
Shelfmark
MS. Lat. class. d. 36
Place of origin
Italian
Date
14th century
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
ii (modern paper) + 96 + ii (modern paper)
Hands
Rounded Italian gothic
Binding
Italian plain parchment cased-binding with slightly yapped fore-edges; the spine lettered in gilt in 'black-letter' type 'Commentaria | in | Rhetorica | Ciceronis', and, at the bottom 'Mss. XIV S.'
Acquisition
Sotheby's 27 March 1950 (above), lot 31. Bought.
Provenance
Bought by Baron C. A. de Cosson in Italy (1876) with four other manuscripts (lots 29–30, 32–33 in Sotheby's Sale, March 27, 1950), of which one (lot 33) certainly belonged to the Dominican convent of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice .
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