Cicero — 15th century, third quarter; Italian, Padua (?)
MS. Auct. F. 2. 19
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Description
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Title
Cicero — 15th century, third quarter; Italian, Padua (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Auct. F. 2. 19
Place of origin
Italian, Padua (?)
Date
15th century, third quarter
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
iii + 140 leaves
Hands
Humanistic script with epigraphic capitals.
Decoration
Fine initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 618, pl. LX)
Binding
Stamped leather on pasteboard (English work, late 17th cent.) over older sewing, with 16th cent. English panels let into sides.
Acquisition
Presented by Thomas Randal in 1602. 'Dec. 13. 1708. Codicem hunc cum Editione Cantabrigiensi per Davisium contuli. Tho. Hearne.'
Provenance
Apparently owned late in the 15th cent. by 'dominus doctor Garsia Petri' (note on fol. ii, and 'Nomina nimpharum' on fol. 139)
John Tiptoft, -1470: annotation on fol. 50 (D. Rundle, The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain (2019), 223 no. 13).
Owned in the 16th cent. by 'Thomas Burgys'.
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