Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares (ff. 2r-193v); preceded (f. 1r) by a table giving the dates of Easter from 1480 to 1831, with numbers for March in red and for April in black. Sporadic 15th- and 16th-century marginalia, including ‘A di 26 mazo Mdxxxiij’ (f. 108v). Decoration: Decorated with a...
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares (ff. 1r-114v), lacking 5.2.6-5.5.3 (from ‘istum ve[hementer]’ to ‘Atque ipsum’) due to the loss of a leaf after f. 25r. Inscribed in near contemporary script (before the loss of a leaf after f. 25r) with a leaf-count: ‘nu(mer)o 115 cartar(um)’ (f. 114v). Marginal...
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares (ff. 1r-229v). Decoration: 17 large white vine initials, in colours and gold, at the beginning of each division (ff. 1r, 15r, 25v, 38v, 50v, 66v, 80v, 94v, 101r, 123r, 143r, 156r, 172v, 191v, 200r, 206v, 220v); the first with matching three-sided borders incorpo...
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares (ff. 1r-198v), lacking 6.1.5-6.2.3 (from spes aliqua to ne si liceat) due to the loss of a leaf after f. 59. A few marginalia in humanistic script. Decoration: A space is left for one eight-line and four-line initials at the start of the books; two-line initial...
Includes added anonymous wedding speech, 15th century, inc. Nuptias pretores magni et cives peregrigii et vos ceteri dominique qui in hoc cœtu ornatissimo (ff. 1r-2r); Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Oration to the Doge of Venice, added after 1455, inc. Cum ab illustrissimis parentibus meis iussus fuerim...
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, beginning imperfect at 3.11.1 ([vu]lgi sermo), ending imperfect at 15.10.2 (hornatissimum [sic]); imperfect elsewhere (ff. 1r-116v). Decoration: Decorated in a style typical of Florence c. 1440, with four- to seven-line gold initials with white vine-stem decora...
Cornelius Nepos, Life of Pomponius Atticus; Letters of Cicero
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-7r: Cornelius Nepos, Vita Pomponii Attici. ff. 7v-236v: Cicero, Epistolae (ff. 7v-19r: Ad Brutum; ff. 19r-37v: Ad Quintum I-II ; ff. 37v-45v: Ad Quintum III; ff. 45v-47v: Ad Octavianum; ff. 47v-236v: Ad Atticum) with marginal glosses.
Cicero, De Amicitia (imperfect); lacking most of 25-26 (from magis [catchwords id diceres, erased] to est et uoluntarium) due to the loss of a leaf after f. 16. Following the end of the text have been added (probably in the 15th century) two lines from the rubric which often precedes the hymn ...
Cicero, De Natura Deorum, De Legibus; followed by anonymous verses and extracts from Virgil, Valerius Maximus, and Lucan
Scope & Content:
Cicero, De Natura Deorum (ff. 3r-57r) (cf. Baglio et al. 1997, pp. 187-189 and Tav. 1); De Legibus (ff. 58r-84r) (cf. Schmidt 1974, p. 41 and Taf. 1); followed by anonymous verses, Istum librum non comodabis, si comodabis non habebis, si habebis non tam cito, si tam cito non tam bonum, si tam bo...