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MS. Auct. F. 2. 19

Summary Catalogue no.: 2172

Rubric: M. T. Ciceronis Tusculanarum Quaestionum liber primus...

In five books (see fols. 37v, 57, 82, 106v)

Language(s): Latin

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: iii + 140 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 10.5 × 6.625 in.

Humanistic script with epigraphic capitals.

Fine initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 618, pl. LX)

Stamped leather on pasteboard (English work, late 17th cent.) over older sewing, with 16th cent. English panels let into sides.

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; Italian, Padua (?)

Apparently owned late in the 15th cent. by 'dominus doctor Garsia Petri' (note on fol. ii, and 'Nomina nimpharum' on fol. 139)

John Tiptoft, -1470: annotation on fol. 50 (D. Rundle, The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain (2019), 223 no. 13).

Owned in the 16th cent. by 'Thomas Burgys'.

Presented by Thomas Randal in 1602. 'Dec. 13. 1708. Codicem hunc cum Editione Cantabrigiensi per Davisium contuli. Tho. Hearne.'

Description adapted (Jan. 2021) from the following sources, with additional reference to published literature as cited:

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, II (1970), no. 618 [script, decoration, origin, date]

Summary Catalogue (1922) [contents, physical description, provenance and acquisition]

Digital Bodleian (7 images from 35mm slides)

2021-01-05: Description revised to incorporate all information in SC.