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Kings MS 21
- Record Id:
- 040-002016937
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002016915
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001207.0x0002df
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165170571.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Kings MS 21
- Title:
- Cicero, Philippicae
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the Philippicae (Philippics), a series of speeches delivered by the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC), condemning Mark Anthony (b. 83 BC, d. 30 BC) in the aftermath of the assassination of Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC, d. 44 BC).
Contents:
f. 1r: Table of contents and an added ownership inscription, in a 16th-century hand.
ff. 2r-96v: Cicero, Philippicae.
[f. 1v is blank].
Decoration:
1 large blue initial with later added foliate decoration, an added full foliate border, in colours and gold, perhaps 18th century, and the added arms of the Gonzaga family of Venice (per bend argent and sable, an eagle displayed counterchanged, crowned or, surmounted with a seven-pointed coronet) (f. 2r). Large initials in plain red or blue marking the beginning of the other speeches (ff. 9r, 30v, 38r, 41r, 47r, 51v, 57r, 60r, 65r, 73r, 79r, 89v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- King's Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002016915
040-002016937 - Is part of:
- Kings MS 1-446 : King's Manuscripts
Kings MS 21 : Cicero, Philippicae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002016915[0020]/040-002016937
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Kings MS 1-446
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165170571.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 245 x 175 mm (text space: 160 x 95 mm).
Foliation: ff. 96 (+ 2 paper and 1 parchment flyleaves at the beginning and end).
Collation: ii-ix10 (ff. 1-90); x6 (ff. 91-96).
Script: Semi-humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Consul' Smith binding of Venetian sprinkled calf-skin; the covers with added gilt-stamped insignia of George III; marbled endpapers; gilt edges (cf. Kings MSS 16, 17, and 19).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Provenance:
Ambrogio Contarini (b. 1429, d. 1499), Venetian nobleman, merchant, and diplomat: inscribed 'Iste liber est Ambrosii Contareni de confinio S. Luce quondam domini ... procuratoris S. Marci in quo continentur libri xiii inuectiuarum M. T. Ciceronis in M. Antonium que Philipice nominantur' (f. 1r).
A member of the Gonzaga family of Venice?: arms added between the last quarter of the 17th century and the first quarter of the 18th century (f. 2r).
Joseph Smith (b. 1673/4?, d. 1770), book collector and patron of the arts: his binding; listed in his catalogue (Bibliotheca Smithiana (1755), p. cxiv); sold to King George III, along with the bulk of Smith's library and art collection, in 1762.
Given to the British Museum by King George IV in 1823 as part of the library of King George III (known as the "King's Library").
- Publications:
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Bibliotheca Smithiana seu catalogus librorum Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus (Venice: Pasquali, 1755), p. cxiv.
George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), III: Description of the King’s Manuscripts and Indexes to both Collections, p. 8.
Frances Vivian, The Consul Smith Collection: Masterpieces of Italian Drawing from the Royal Library, Windsor, Raphael to Canaletto (Munich: Hirmer, 1989), p. 43 n. 96.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)