Cicero, Ps.-Cicero, Ps.-Sallust — 15th century, late (?)
MS. D'Orville 10
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Cicero, Ps.-Cicero, Ps.-Sallust — 15th century, late (?)
Shelfmark
MS. D'Orville 10
Date
15th century, late (?)
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
paper
Physical extent
i + 247 leaves
Hands
Two hands: the handwriting changes at fols 33, 68v, 221 and 229 but is probably of the same date
Acquisition
Acquired by the Bodleian in 1804
Provenance
The library of the House of Orange-Nassau: recorded in the 1686 shelflist; included in the 1749 auction at The Hague (see A. D. Renting, A. S. Korteweg, et al., The Seventeenth-century Orange-Nassau Library; the catalogue compiled by Anthonie Smets in 1686, the 1749 auction catalogue, and other contemporary sources[Utrecht, 1993], p. 646 no. 3483); catalogue p. 216 lot 53, bought by:
Pieter de Hondt (1696–1764), printer, publisher, and bookseller of The Hague.
Jacques Phillippe D'Orville of Amsterdam (1690–1751)
Jean D'Orville, b. 1734, his son, by descent
Jean D'Orville, son of Jean, by descent
Sold to the Rev. John Cleaver Banks (1765/1766–1845): purchased from him by the Bodleian
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Title
Works by or ascribed to Cicero, written in two handwritings
Shelfmark
MS. D'Orville 10
Summary
Comprises:
(fol. 1v) De Inventione Rhetorica, with copious introduction and scholia
(fol. 33) Rhetorica ad Herennium.
(fol. 60) De Partitione Oratoria
(fol. 68v) De Officiis
(fol. 118) Orationes in Verrem
(fol. 197) Orationes in Catilinam
(fol. 213) Cicero's Invective against Sallust, preceded at fol. 212 by Sallust's Invective against Cicero
(fol. 215v) Paradoxa
(fol. 221) Oratio pro M. Marcello
(fol. 223) Oratio pro Qu. Ligario
(fol. 225v) Oratio pro rege Deiotaro
(fol. 229) Oratio de Lege Manilla.
De Inventione Rhetorica, Oratio pro M. Marcello, Oratio pro Qu. Ligario, Oratio pro rege Deiotaro and Oratio de Lege Manilla have considerable scholia, the rest few.
The handwriting changes at fols. 33, 68v, 221, 229, but is probably of the same date.
Date
written perhaps late in the 15th cent.
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
247 Leaves
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Collection contents
Manuscripts of Jacques Philippe D'Orville
Works by or ascribed to Cicero, written in two handwritings
