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MS. D'Orville 78

Summary Catalogue no.: 16956

Contents

Cicero, Orations
(fol. 1)
Pro A. Caecina
(fol. 26)
Pro lege agraria, the three orations
(fol. 62)
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem
(fol. 90)
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo
(fol. 100)
Pro C. Rabirio
(fol. 110v)
Pro Roscio comoedo
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
1v + 125 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 10 × 7 in.

Hand(s)

Humanistic script attributable to Giovanni Aretino (Pächt and Alexander ii. 211)

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 211, Pl. XIX

Fine early humanist initials

History

Origin: 1418 (?) (see de la Mare) ; Italy, Florence

Provenance and Acquisition

Ex libris of Cosimo de' Medici.

Collated by Girolamo Lagomarsini for his edition: fol. 1 'Hic codex a me Hieronymo Lagomarsino e Soc. Jesu cum vulgatis diligenter collatus, in mea Ciceronis Orationum editione numero 38. designabitur. Florentiæ 16. Jun. 1740. CI. II. 38.'

Jacques Phillippe D'Orville of Amsterdam (1690–1751)

Jean D'Orville, b. 1734, his son, by descent

Jean D'Orville, son of Jean, by descent

Sold to the Rev. John Cleaver Banks (1765/1766–1845): purchased from him by the Bodleian

Acquired by the Bodleian in 1804

Record Sources

Description adapted (March 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1897) with reference to published literature as cited. Decoration and localization follow Pächt and Alexander (1970)
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 4, p. 57
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 4, p. 58

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. C. de la Mare, 'Cosimo and his books', in Cosimo 'il Vecchio' de' Medici 1389-1464, ed. F. Ames-Lewis (Oxford, 1992), p. 144 no. 29.
    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 437

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-03-25: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)