Cicero — 1418 (?); Italy, Florence
MS. D'Orville 78
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Cicero — 1418 (?); Italy, Florence
Shelfmark
MS. D'Orville 78
Date
1418 (?)
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
1v + 125 leaves
Hands
Humanistic script attributable to Giovanni Aretino (Pächt and Alexander ii. 211)
Decoration
Fine early humanist initials
Acquisition
Acquired by the Bodleian in 1804
Provenance
Ex libris of Cosimo de' Medici.
Collated by Girolamo Lagomarsinifor his edition: fol. 1 'Hic codex a me Hieronymo Lagomarsino e Soc. Jesu cum vulgatis diligenter collatus, in mea Ciceronis Orationum editione numero 38. designabitur. Florentiæ 16. Jun. 1740. CI. II. 38.'
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
Orations of Cicero
Shelfmark
MS. D'Orville 78
Summary
Comprises:
(fol. 1) Pro A. Caecina.
(fol. 26) Pro lege agraria, the three orations
(fol. 62) In L. Calpurnium Pisonem
(fol. 90) Pro C. Rabirio Postumo
(fol. 100) Pro C. Rabirio
(fol. 110v) Pro Roscio comoedo.
On fol. 1: 'Hic codex a me Hieronymo Lagomarsino e Soc. Jesu cum vulgatis diligenter collatus, in mea Ciceronis Orationum editione numero 38. designabitur. Florentiæ 16. Jun. 1740. Cl. II. 38.'.
Date
written in the 15th cent. in Italy
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, with some illuminated capitals
Physical extent
125 Leaves
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