CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 BC). De Officiis; Paradoxa; Sinonima , in Latin, MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER [?Milan, 1st half of the 15th century] 210 x 145mm. 169 leaves: 1 1 4(of 16, lacking i & ii), 2-9 1 2, 10 4, 11-16 8, 17 7, some horizontal catchwords survive in the centre of the lower margin of final versos, 23-25 lines written in brown ink in a gothic cancelleresca cursive hand between 2 verticals and 23-25 horizontals ruled in plummet, prickings in outer margins, rubrics and marginal titles in pink (very slight worming and damage to corners of first and last pairs of folios, some waterstaining to margins at beginning and end). Modern half blue morocco. PROVENANCE: 1. The manuscript appears to have been written and remained in Milan. The main body of the text is written in a characteristically angular cancelleresca that was used in the city from the end of the 14th century. The headings in pink were added in a reformed gothic script, and the marginal annotations and added verses are written in a range of increasingly humanistic hands, recognisably Milanese in character. 2. Bartolo de Doyono: a note on f.96 recording the purchase of the manuscript on 17 June 1455 from Antonio Pistoriensi de Conegliano. CONTENTS: Cicero, De Officiis (lacking opening of prologue) ff.1-96; Paradoxa ff.100-114v; Pseudo-Cicero Sinonima f.117-177v This manuscript gives a vivid impression of the interest and value accorded to Cicero in the 15th century. There are many marginal annotations in Latin and Italian and the latest notes - the grammatical explanations written around the Pseudo-Cicero Sinonima on ff.123v-125 - are probably 16th-century. There is one entertaining addition. The scribe, writing on ready-gathered leaves, turned over two at once missing the opening ff.164v-165; the unseemly blanks then had written on them in decorative letters 'Herror Scribentis'.
CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 BC). De Officiis; Paradoxa; Sinonima , in Latin, MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER [?Milan, 1st half of the 15th century] 210 x 145mm. 169 leaves: 1 1 4(of 16, lacking i & ii), 2-9 1 2, 10 4, 11-16 8, 17 7, some horizontal catchwords survive in the centre of the lower margin of final versos, 23-25 lines written in brown ink in a gothic cancelleresca cursive hand between 2 verticals and 23-25 horizontals ruled in plummet, prickings in outer margins, rubrics and marginal titles in pink (very slight worming and damage to corners of first and last pairs of folios, some waterstaining to margins at beginning and end). Modern half blue morocco. PROVENANCE: 1. The manuscript appears to have been written and remained in Milan. The main body of the text is written in a characteristically angular cancelleresca that was used in the city from the end of the 14th century. The headings in pink were added in a reformed gothic script, and the marginal annotations and added verses are written in a range of increasingly humanistic hands, recognisably Milanese in character. 2. Bartolo de Doyono: a note on f.96 recording the purchase of the manuscript on 17 June 1455 from Antonio Pistoriensi de Conegliano. CONTENTS: Cicero, De Officiis (lacking opening of prologue) ff.1-96; Paradoxa ff.100-114v; Pseudo-Cicero Sinonima f.117-177v This manuscript gives a vivid impression of the interest and value accorded to Cicero in the 15th century. There are many marginal annotations in Latin and Italian and the latest notes - the grammatical explanations written around the Pseudo-Cicero Sinonima on ff.123v-125 - are probably 16th-century. There is one entertaining addition. The scribe, writing on ready-gathered leaves, turned over two at once missing the opening ff.164v-165; the unseemly blanks then had written on them in decorative letters 'Herror Scribentis'.
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