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MS. Rawl. G. 36

Summary Catalogue no.: 14767

Contents

1. (fol. iv)
Cicero, De inventione

With notes

Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 47v)
Cicero, De amicitia

With notes

Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 62)
Ps.-Demosthenes, Oratio ad Alexandrum Epistola Demosthenis ad Alexandrum regem
Incipit: Nichil habet, Rex Alexander, uel fortuna tua
Language(s): Latin
4. (fol. 63)
Ps-Cicero, De arte rhetorica ad Herennium
Rubric: Marci Tullij Ciceronis Rhetorice ad Gaium Herennium

With notes

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
vii + 119 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 10.125 × 7.375 in.

History

Origin: 15th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in Florence, 1440, from a stationer Francesco: 'Noveris [?] quod volumen emi Florentie Anno domini 1440 die xx Maij a Francisco Iibrario ducatis [??] quinque ....'

'Gasparis Zacchii Volaterrani episcopi Auximi' (bishop of Osimo, 1460-1474)

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)
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 347

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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