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This manuscript is a complete copy (excluding the first four letters of Book XVI, not due to missing leaves) of Cicero's Epistolae ad Familiares, completed in Ferrara on 12 March 1468 by Gregorius de Martinellis de Buccassolo, as noted in the closing colophon (fol. 174v). The text is divided into sixteen books, with an illuminated initial of gold on colored ground at the beginning of each book. The text is written in humanistic cursive, with alternating red and blue Square Capitals at the beginning of each letter and the letters numbered in the opening initials.
Support: Parchment; Extent: ii+175+ii; 256 x 176 mm bound to 260 x 186 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto, occasionally upper right recto; Collation: 1-17 (10), 18 (5, +1); Catchwords: Vertical catchwords, lower right last verso
One column of thirty-one lines, ruled in hard-point; written area: 160 x 110 mm
Humanistic cursive
One large eight-line white vine-scroll initial with partial border and space for coat of arms decorated with white vine-scroll (fol. 1r); illuminated initials at beginning of each book (fols. 1r, 14r, 22v, 33r, 43r, 56r, 67v, 78r, 82v, 98v, 113v, 123r, 134v, 153v, 158r, 168r); alternating red and blue two-line initials throughout; rubrication, running book numbers in upper margin, and some marginal notes in faded red ink
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Paper flyleaves
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Ferrara, Italy
1468 March 12
Late seventeenth or early eighteenth-century, mottled calf, blind tooled and stamped concentric panel design, panels on spine tooled and stamped in gold, labeled TULLII EPIST: FAMIL: MSS
Latin
Sold by Pickering & Chatto, London, to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, 1923 (receipt inside back cover); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
Ferrara, Italy
1468 March 12
Latin
Sold by Pickering & Chatto, London, to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, 1923
This manuscript is a complete copy (excluding the first four letters of Book XVI, not due to missing leaves) of Cicero's Epistolae ad Familiares, completed in Ferrara on 12 March 1468 by Gregorius de Martinellis de Buccassolo, as noted in the closing colophon (fol. 174v). The text is divided into sixteen books, with an illuminated initial of gold on colored ground at the beginning of each book. The text is written in humanistic cursive, with alternating red and blue Square Capitals at the beginning of each letter and the letters numbered in the opening initials.
Paper flyleaves
Humanistic cursive
One large eight-line white vine-scroll initial with partial border and space for coat of arms decorated with white vine-scroll (fol. 1r); illuminated initials at beginning of each book (fols. 1r, 14r, 22v, 33r, 43r, 56r, 67v, 78r, 82v, 98v, 113v, 123r, 134v, 153v, 158r, 168r); alternating red and blue two-line initials throughout; rubrication, running book numbers in upper margin, and some marginal notes in faded red ink
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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