Lives of St Savinus and St Antoninus, saints from Piacenza, entitled: 'Revelatio beati Savinii episcopi et confessoris et inventio martiris Antonini' incipit: 'in diebus illis in beatissimus urbis placentine'.
Epitome of Livy's History of Rome. Marginal glosses. Latin. inc. Aduentus Eneae in Italiam; expl. eius plures honores dedit. Followed by 4 blank leaves.
'Nota sex tantum casus', a treatise adapted from Raymond of Peñafort's Summa de casibus poenitentiae
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Contents: ff. 5r-50v: 'Nota sex tantum casus', a Latin treatise adapted from Raymond of Peñafort's Summa de casibus poenitentiae. The manuscript contains various additions: ff. 1r-1v: An exposition on the mass, beginning 'Missa ideo [sic] vocatur quia missa est pro nobis hostia ad deum placa...
Sozomeno da Pistoia, Annotations on Horace's Satires and Odes, and Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum
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Contents: ff. 1r-18v: Fragmentary annotations by the humanist Sozomeno da Pistoia (b. 1387, d. 1458) on Horace's Satires and Odes, and Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum. The old foliation (nos. 56, 57, 49, 64, 65, 72, 73, 80, 81, 88, 89, 96) indicates that the leaves were once part of a ...
Humanist letters; Marcus Tullius Cicero, Laelius de Amicitia (imperfect); Latin dictionary
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Contents: ff. 2r-9v: A collection of letters by Heliseus Barbii, Petrus Berardesci, Petrus Collensis, Camillus Lutii, and others. ff. 10r-13v: Letters by Johannes Gabrielles and others [Latin and Italian]. ff. 14r-23v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Laelius de Amicitia, imperfect. f. 24v: Leonardo...
Contents: f. 1*r: list of contents. ff. 1r-18v: Life of St basil. ff. 19r-38v: Pseudo-Eusebius, Vita et Transitus Sancti Hieronymi (The Life and Passing of St Jerome). ff. 39r-40v: Pseudo-Augustine, Sermones ad fratres in eremo (Sermons to the brothers in the desert), no. 57. ff. 41r-66v: G...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century
Sallust, De Coniuratione Catilinae and De Bello Jugurthino
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This manuscript contains two works by the Roman historian Gaius Sallustius Crispus (b. 86 BC, d. c. 35 BC), also known as Sallust. De Coniuratione Catilinae (On the Conspiracy of Catiline) chronicles the attempted overthrow of the government of Rome by the aristocrat Catiline in 63 BC. De Bello ...