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MS. Rawl. G. 33

Summary Catalogue no.: 14764

Contents

1. (fol. 1)
Cicero, De amicitia
Rubric: ...De Amicicia ad Atticum ...
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 30)
Cicero, De senectute
Rubric: ... Cato Maior de Senectute ...
Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 57)
Cicero, Paradoxa
Rubric: ... Paradoxa ...
Language(s): Latin
4. (fol. 71)
Prose introduction to the De senectute and De amicitia
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
vi + 77 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 8.375 × 6 in.

Hand(s)

Humanistic script

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 823

Good historiated initials

Good other initials

Good miniature (drawing) added, 15th century, second half, fol. v verso

Binding

Red leather with gold tooling (Thomas Rawlinson's). Binding comparable to other Rawlinson manuscripts

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; Italy, North-east (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

No. 209 in the Thomas Rawlinson sale, 4 March 1733/1734

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Description adapted (November 2023) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1895). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970)
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 346

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-11-29: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1895)