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Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 156
Title:: Cicero, Philippics; Topica; Pseudo-Cicero, Synonyma; De Differentiis
Scope & Content:: Cicero, Philippics (ff. 1r-69v); Topica (ff. 70r-78v); Pseudo-Cicero, Synonyma (ff. 79r-84r); De Differentiis (ff. 84v-90r). Decoration: Decorated with three- and four-line initials alternately in blue with red penwork flourishing, or vice versa, as far as the start of the Topica; thereafter w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: Paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 157
Title:: Speeches of Cicero, Pseudo-Cicero, Pseudo-Sallust, Aeschines, and Demosthenes (the latter two in the Latin translation of Leonardo Bruni)
Scope & Content:: Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia (ff. 2r-8r), preceded by an added argument (f. 1v); Pro Milone (ff. 8r-18r), with an added marginal argument; Pro Plancio (ff. 18r-28v); Pro Sulla (ff. 28v-37r); De Haruspicum Responsis (ff. 37r-43v); De Provinciis Consularibus (ff. 43v-47v); Pro Caelio (ff. 47v-55v); Pr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 158
Title:: Cicero, In Verrem
Scope & Content:: Cicero, In Verrem (ff. 2r-219v); followed by another line of rubric, erased, the middle word is probably ‘de’. Decoration: Decorated with five-line initials in gold with white vine-stem decoration on a gold, red, blue, and green ground, the first seven-line, and with a partial border (ff. 2r, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 159
Title:: Cicero, Orationes
Scope & Content:: Cicero, Orationes. Includes: Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia (ff. 1r-14r); Pro Plancio (ff. 14r-35r); Pro Milone (ff. 35r-54v); Pro Archia Poeta (ff. 54v-60v); Pro Cluentio (imperfect) (ff. 60v-95v); Pro Quinctio (ff. 95v-111v); Pro Flacco (ff. 111v-129v); Pro Reditum in Senatu (ff. 129v-137r); Pseudo-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 160
Title:: Cicero, De Oratore
Scope & Content:: Cicero, De Oratore (ff. 1r-166v). Decoration: Decorated with six- and seven-line vine-stem initials pen-drawn in plain ink (ff. 50r, 122r); the first page with the arms of Maffei of Volterra within a wreath, added in the lower margin, as in Burney MS 161, and a foliate initial contemporary wit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1425, after 1421
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 161
Title:: Cicero, De Inventione; Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:: Cicero, De Inventione (ff. 3r-53v); Rhetorica ad Herennium (ff. 53v-98r). Preceded by a letter signed ‘J Davies’, and dated ‘Q[ueen’s]. C[ollege]. C[ambridge]. March 11th / 1722’ thanking Dr [Richard] Mead for the loan of a manuscript of De Natura Deorum and De Divinatione (f. 1r). Decoration: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 162
Title:: Cicero, De Inventione; preceded by Grillius, In Ciceronis Libros de Inventione, excerpt; Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:: Cicero, De Inventione (ff. 5r-106r); preceded by Grillius, In Ciceronis Libros de Inventione 1.17 (ff. 1r-4r) (see Olsen 1982, p. 132 no 489; cf. Burney MS 164); Rhetorica ad Herennium (ff. 107r-187v). Decoration: Decorated with five- to nine-line rudimentary vine-stem/interlace initials on pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 163
Title:: Rhetorica ad Herennium; Cicero, De Amicitia; Somnium Scipionis; De Senectute; Paradoxa Stoicorum
Scope & Content:: Fragment of a grammatical treatise (f. 1v); Rhetorica ad Herennium (ff. 2r-54v); Cicero, De Amicitia (ff. 55r-71r); Somnium Scipionis (ff. 72r-75v); De Senectute (ff. 76r-90v); Paradoxa Stoicorum (ff. 90v-97v). Spaces left for initials, filled-in only in the third and fourth gatherings, sporadi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 164
Title:: Rhetorica ad Herennium; Grillius, In Ciceronis Libros de Inventione, excerpt
Scope & Content:: Rhetorica ad Herennium (ff. 1r-65r); Grillius, In Ciceronis Libros de Inventione 1.17 (ff. 65r-67r) (cf. Olsen 1982, p. 132 no. 489). Sporadic marginal and interlinear glosses in humanistic hands. Decoration: Decorated with five- to seven-line initials in blue with red penwork ornament, or vi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 165
Title:: Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes; De Finibus; Academica, Book I
Scope & Content:: Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes (ff. 1r-91v); De Finibus (ff. 93r-178v); Academica, Book I (ff. 178v-186v). Decoration: Decorated with seven- or eight-line gold initials with white vine-stem ornament on a red, green, and blue ground (ff. 1r, 93r); later four- to seven-line gold initials on re...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: c 1470
Extent:: Parchment codex

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