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MS. D'Orville 11

Summary Catalogue no.: 16889

Contents

Cicero, Epistolae ad familiares
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

Decoration

Fine historiated border (retouched), perhaps added to the original MS. Fine initials of Ferrarese style. Written in humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 617, pl. LX)

fol. 1r Full architectural border (retouched) with two putti, arms of Jacomo Zabarella, d. 1589 (?) and a cardinal's arms .

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; Italian, Padua

Record Sources

Summary description by Elizabeth Solopova and Matthew Holford, based on the Summary Catalogue and supplementary sources.
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 4, p. 40
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 4, p. 41

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.