A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

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)

Last Substantive Revision

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