Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 409: Cicero (M. Tullius Cicero), De finibus bonorum et malorum

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Summary
CCCC MS 409 contains a copy of De finibus bonorum et malorum of M. Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.). This copy of De finibus, Cicero's critique of Epicureanism, Stoicism, and the 'Academy' of Antiochus of Ascalon, was produced in Italy in the fifteenth century and is a good example of Italian humanist script. It was probably the script as much as the contents that interested Parker.
Contents
De finibus bonorum et malorum

Description

Alternative title M. T. Cicero de Finibus
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 84
Date created [ca. 1400 - 1499]
Language Latin
Material Vellum
Layout 30 lines to a page
Height (mm) 205
Width (mm) 139
Collation 1(10)-8(10) 9 (four).
Writing in a beautiful small Roman hand
Foliation ff. i-ii + 1-84 + iii
Provenance At top of f. 1r in what seems an Italian hand is a press-mark L. 8.
Decoration The rubrics (in capitals) are very faint and the decorative initials also.
2 fo. nostrum scribendi

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fr436bs0796/MS_409.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wr106vg9163/409.pdf
Contains
Title
Cicero (M. Tullius Cicero), De finibus bonorum et malorum. 1r-81v
Author
Cicero (M. Tullius Cicero)
Rubric
(1r) M. Tullii Ciceronis Arpinatis de finibus bonorum et malorum liber primus incipit feliciter. Lege fel
Incipit
(1r) Non eram nescius brute
Note
(14r) Liber II
(36v) Liber III
(50r) Liber IV
(64r) Liber V
Explicit
(81v) Ad pomponium perreximus omnes
Rubric
(81v) Finis
Note
(81v) In Gothic letter
Rubric
(81v) hinc cum recedas reminiscas claudere librum. Amen
Note
(82r) blank
On ff. 82v-83v in Italic hand
Rubric
(82v) Incipit epitaphia ciceronis edita a xii sapientibus basilio ... maximino et vitali
Note
(82v) Basilius
Incipit
(82v) Hic iacet arpinas manibus tumulatus amici
Explicit
(83v) Seruitio patriam destituit patriam
Note
Anthologia Latina 603-614
f. 84r-84v blank
TJames 203
Stanley N. 28
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/cb131cc9652
Location MS 409
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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