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11. Burney MS 142

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 142
Title:
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

12. Burney MS 143

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 143
Title:
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

13. Burney MS 144

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 144
Title:
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, and other texts
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

14. Burney MS 145

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 145
Title:
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, imperfect
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
before 1464
Extent:
Parchment codex

15. Burney MS 146

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 146
Title:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Paper codex.

16. Burney MS 147

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 147
Title:
Cicero, De Amicitia, imperfect
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
Paper codex

17. Burney MS 148

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 148
Title:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

18. Burney MS 149

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 149
Title:
Cicero, De Officiis; an added quotation from Varro, De Lingua Latina
Scope & Content:
Cicero, De Officiis (ff. 2r-92r); followed by an added quotation from Varro, De Lingua Latina, 9.47 (f. 93v). Occasionally annotated in humanistic script by contemporary readers. Decoration: Decorated with fine seven- or eight-line gold initials with white vine-stem decoration on a ground of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex