De senectute; Paradoxa] ; [Somnium Scipionis (DS11931) (Q51158)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Vassar College (991012849129707396, MS. 20, https://vassar.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VAC_INST/349upj/alma991012849129707396)
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De senectute; Paradoxa] ; [Somnium Scipionis (DS11931)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Vassar College (991012849129707396, MS. 20, https://vassar.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VAC_INST/349upj/alma991012849129707396)

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    title as recorded
    De senectute; Paradoxa] ; [Somnium Scipionis
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    Works of Cicero
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    Autographs
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    Italy
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    Italy
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    Manuscripts, Medieval
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    Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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    Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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    Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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    Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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    Italy
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    Extent: 32 leaves : parchment ; 190 x 130 (140 x 90) mm bound to 200 x 140 mm
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    Ms. codex.
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    Titles from Kidd.
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    Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (modern parchment) + 32 (foliated [1]-32) + ii (modern parchment) ; 112 2-310; first two quires with horizontal catchwords in the middle of the lower margin.
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    Layout: written in 29 long lines; ruled.
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    Script: written in humanist bookhand.
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    Decoration: 3 four- to six-line initials in red with pen flourishes in brown.
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    Binding: 20th-century blue leather over pasteboard with gilt spine title, Cicero XV Saec. MS, gilt edges, and gilt mongram "BCM" of binder, Bernard Chester Middleton.
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    Origin: written probably in northern Italy during the mid fifteenth century.
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    Inscribed in 15th/16th(?)-century majuscules "Gio[va]n(?) Maria. Amen" (fol. 32r). Sold at Sotheby's, January 23-24, 1950, lot 444 ("A Fragment of a Manuscript on vellum of Cicero's works, 32 ll., first initial in red with pen-work decoration, unbound (96 mm. by 33 mm.) 8vo [15th century]." Autograph of Graham Pollard and pencil note in same hand, first upper flyleaf: "bought at Sotheby's c...
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    date added
    26 August 2024
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    26 August 2024
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