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Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 152
Title:: Cicero, De Officiis
Scope & Content:: A humanist copy of Cicero's De officiis from 1468. Contents: ff. 1r-100r: Cicero, De Officiis with spaces left for rubrics and for large initials at the start of each book (ff. 1r, 43r, 68r) which were left uncompleted. Annotated in Humanistic hands, sometimes in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1468
Extent:: One volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 153
Title:: Cicero, De Finibus; Tusculanae Disputationes
Scope & Content:: Cicero, De Finibus (ff. 1r-94r); Tusculanae Disputationes (ff. 95r-190v). Decoration: Decorated with seven- or eight-line foliate initials on a gold ground with foliate marginal extensions at the start of each book (ff. 1r, 15v, 40v, 56v, 72v, 95r, 119v, 133r, 150v, 168r), and a border of simi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 154
Title:: Cicero, Philippics, imperfect
Scope & Content:: Cicero, Philippics, omitting 5.12-6.6 (from legatorum mentionem to nunquam vidi at f. 57v line 12) (ff. 1r-122v). Decoration: Decorated with initials in gold with white vine-stem ornament on a deep blue ground (ff. 1r, 10r, 37r, 46v, 50r, 58r, 63v, 70v, 74v, 81r, 91v, 99v, 113r), the lower mar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 155
Title:: Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta; Pro Milone; Philippics
Scope & Content:: Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta (ff. 1r-6r); Pro Milone (ff. 6r-21v); Philippics (ff. 22r-100r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Paper codex

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

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