Eloquentię principis M. Tullii Ciceronis Ad Brutum Tusculanarum Quęstionum (DS9913) (Q43743)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18621454, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862145, mssHM 1031)
  • Tusculanae disputationes
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Eloquentię principis M. Tullii Ciceronis Ad Brutum Tusculanarum Quęstionum (DS9913)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18621454, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862145, mssHM 1031)
  • Tusculanae disputationes

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Eloquentię principis M. Tullii Ciceronis Ad Brutum Tusculanarum Quęstionum
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Tusculanae disputationes
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Decorated initials--Italy--15th century
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between 1450 and 1499
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Extent: ff. 87 : parchment ; 183 x 270 mm
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Title from rubric.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Humanistic.
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Layout: 1-810 96. Catchwords written horizontally between simple flourishes; quires and leaves evidently once signed in letter of the alphabet and arabic numeral (e.g. f. 73). 32 long lines, ruled in lead; pricking visible in lower margins.
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Span folios: ff. 1-87v (f. 1 is a flyleaf)
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Other Decoration: Decorated by the Master of the Putti; see L. Armstrong, Renaissance Miniature Painters & Classical Imagery (London 1981) 7-29, 117. Opening leaf, f. 2, with full border of dark red and green acanthus leaves on a blue ground, a cherub in the upper border and 2 sirens holding a coat of arms in the lower border; 7-line faceted initial in green on a dark red ground infilled with...
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Acknowledgments: We thank Prof. Lilian Armstrong for the attribution of the decoration to the Master of the Putti, and for the relevant information about other manuscripts.
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Assigned Date: s. XV2.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012.
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Written in Venice and decorated by the Master of the Putti, who flourished between 1469 and 1473, for a member of the Venetian Erizzo family, whose coat of arms appears on f. 2: azure, on a bend or a hedgehog sable and the initial E (Rietstap, vol. 2, pl. 274). The Erizzo family owned three other manuscripts decorated by the Master of the Putti workshop; see Armstrong, Renaissance Miniature...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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