CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.). De Senectute , De Amicitia , Paradoxica Stoicorum , and two other texts in Latin. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. [North-East Italy, possibly Ferrara, third quarter of the 15th century]. 204 x 135mm, 60 leaves and two original flyleaves (torn), COMPLETE, collation: 1-6 1 0 , catchwords at end of each quire, 26 lines, ruled in blind and plummet, justification: 132 x 74mm, written in brown ink in a small humanistic minuscule bookhand, texts without headings, 2 three-line illuminated initials, gold on blue, green and red ground, 3 LARGER WHITE VINE-SCROLL INITIALS, 4-5 lines, burnished gold, on blue ground, the intertwined vinestems infilled in red and green, (slight worming in blank inner margin of ff 35-39). CONTEMPORARY PANELLED SHEEP OVER WOODEN BOARDS, tooled in blind, in the centre a triple fileted circle filled with knot stamps, inner panels containing knot stamps and other small tools, outer border of ropework ornament, (spine restored, upper cover a little rubbed), brass catches stamped with the paschal lamb, but only stubs of leather hasps present, in marbled paper covered wooden case. THE TEXT COMPRISES THE FOLLOWING (1) folio 1. Cicero's De Senectute , i.e. Cato Major , on old Age, commencing "O tite siquid ego adiuto curam ne leuasso .." (2) folio 21v. Cicero's De Amicitia , on Friendship, commencing "Quintus mutius augur scevola .." (3) folio 45. Cicero's Paradoxica Stoicorum , commencing "Animadvorti brute sepe catone .." (4) folio 56. Celsus Maffeus (1475-1508) Dialogus de Contemptu mundi , whether it is better to live in town or in the country, commencing "Dorias civis athicus iter faciens errore vie in diversorum venit .." (5) folio 59v. Letter to Alexander the Great, commencing "Nichil habet rex alexander vel fortuna tua .."
CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.). De Senectute , De Amicitia , Paradoxica Stoicorum , and two other texts in Latin. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. [North-East Italy, possibly Ferrara, third quarter of the 15th century]. 204 x 135mm, 60 leaves and two original flyleaves (torn), COMPLETE, collation: 1-6 1 0 , catchwords at end of each quire, 26 lines, ruled in blind and plummet, justification: 132 x 74mm, written in brown ink in a small humanistic minuscule bookhand, texts without headings, 2 three-line illuminated initials, gold on blue, green and red ground, 3 LARGER WHITE VINE-SCROLL INITIALS, 4-5 lines, burnished gold, on blue ground, the intertwined vinestems infilled in red and green, (slight worming in blank inner margin of ff 35-39). CONTEMPORARY PANELLED SHEEP OVER WOODEN BOARDS, tooled in blind, in the centre a triple fileted circle filled with knot stamps, inner panels containing knot stamps and other small tools, outer border of ropework ornament, (spine restored, upper cover a little rubbed), brass catches stamped with the paschal lamb, but only stubs of leather hasps present, in marbled paper covered wooden case. THE TEXT COMPRISES THE FOLLOWING (1) folio 1. Cicero's De Senectute , i.e. Cato Major , on old Age, commencing "O tite siquid ego adiuto curam ne leuasso .." (2) folio 21v. Cicero's De Amicitia , on Friendship, commencing "Quintus mutius augur scevola .." (3) folio 45. Cicero's Paradoxica Stoicorum , commencing "Animadvorti brute sepe catone .." (4) folio 56. Celsus Maffeus (1475-1508) Dialogus de Contemptu mundi , whether it is better to live in town or in the country, commencing "Dorias civis athicus iter faciens errore vie in diversorum venit .." (5) folio 59v. Letter to Alexander the Great, commencing "Nichil habet rex alexander vel fortuna tua .."
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