MS. Laud Lat. 48

Summary Catalogue no.: 1321

Cicero, Speeches

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: ii + 255 + ii fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 335 × 233 mm.

Layout

1 col., 38 lines, 227 × 145–150 mm.

Hand(s)

Written in humanistic script in 1450, fol. 253r. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 335, pl. XXXI)

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 335, pl. XXXI)

History

Origin: 1450 ; Italian, Rome (?)

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 24

Quarto Catalogue, p. 539 (addenda)

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 56