MS. Barlow 40
Summary Catalogue no.: 6480
Contents
Cicero, De inventione rhetorica
Rubric: Cato Cesar de rethorica
There are many contempory and some some later glosses.
(A note on fol. v by Thomas Barlow, 1607–1691 states that the text is by Cicero despite the rubric)Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: v + 101 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 9.4 × 5.6 in.
Decoration
"The style and the script are the same as in Lucca, Biblioteca Governativa, MS. 1405, Rhetorica ad Herennium. The miniature probably goes back indirectly to a late classical source" (Pächt and Alexander ii. 1047, Pl. LXXXIV).
Fine miniature. fol. 1r
- Type miniature
- Subject Cicero, flanked by Cato and Caesar, decides the fate of the Catilinarian conspirators
Good initials fol. 4v
- Type initial C
- Subject Interlace; grotesque.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
There are some late 14th-century scribblings on fol. v.
On fol. iv is 'contuli cum editione Gronov. in quarto Maii 24° MDCCIX' Tho: Hearne'.
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1691
Record Sources
Description adapted (April 2023) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1937). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973)
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-04-24: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1937)