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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 158

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  • MS 158
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Date
  • 1400 - 1499
Language
  • Latin
Title
  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 158: Cicero (M. Tullius Cicero), De inuentione. pseudo-Cicero, De ratione dicendi ad Herennium (Rhetorica ad Herennium)
  • Cicero (M. Tullius Cicero), De inuentione
  • pseudo-Cicero, De ratione dicendi ad Herennium (Rhetorica ad Herennium)
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    • Cicéron (0106-0043 av. J.-C.)
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    • Cicero (M. Tullius Cicero)
    Other form
    • CICERO (M.-T.)
    • Cicero, Marcus Tullius (0106-0043 av. J.-C.)
    • Marcus Tullius Cicero
    • CICERO (Marcus Tullius)
    • Cicéron
    • CICERO
    • Cicéron (0106-0043 av. J.-C.)
    • Cicero
    • CICÉRON
    • Ciceron, M. T.
    • M. T. Cicero
    • Cicerone
    • M. Tullii Ciceronis
    • M. T. Ciceronis
    • Tullius Cicero
    • TULLE
    • CICERO (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
    • Marcus Tullio Cicero
    • M. T. CICERO
    • Cicéron 0106-0043 av. J.-C.
    • Ciceró, Marc Tul·li‏
    • Cicero, Marcus Tullius
    • Cicero, Marcus Tullius v106-v43
    • Cicerón, Marco Tulio
    • Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
    • Marcus Tullius
    • Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC
    • Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 106 B.C.-43 B.C.
    • Marcus Tullius Cicero (v65)
    • Marcus Tullius Cicero (v106-v43)
    • Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
    • Marcus Tullius Cicero (-0106 - 0043)
    • Cicero, M. Tullius (106-43 v. Chr)
    • Cicerón, Marco Tulio, 106-43 a.C
    • Cicero, Marcus Tullius, v106-v43
    • Cícero, 106 a.C.-43 a.C.
    • Marcus Tullius Cicero - auteur
    • Marcus Tullius Cicero - oorspronkelijke auteur
    • Cicero - auteur
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    • Pseudo-Cicero
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    • Pseudo-Cicero
    • Ps. Cicero
    • Cicero, auteur prétendu
    • Cicero (Pseudo-)
    • Pseudo Ciceró
    • Pseudo Cicerón
    • Pseudo-Cicero, 1st century BC
    • Pseudo-Cicero (01.. av. J.-C.)
    • Ps.-Cicero
    • Pseudo-Cícero
    • Pseudo-Cícero > , co-autor
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Description

  • Summary: The text and script of CCCC MS 158, dating to c. 1450-1475, are a very good example of the sort of manuscript made for English humanists of the middle years of the fifteenth century. It is a copy of two works of Cicero on rhetoric. It was written in Italian-influenced humanist script by the scribe, John Pacy, who also worked on Cambridge, Pembroke MS 235, which is dated 1464. M. R. James thought that it came from the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, but it does not appear to be listed in the catalogue. Matthew Parker, misled by the Roman form of the script, notes on f. 1 that the book belonged to Theodore, the seventh-century archbishop of Canterbury. The book contains fine decorative initials containing grotesques and dragons in grisaille.


    Contents :


    1r-72v - Cicero (M. Tullius Cicero), De inuentione

    Note: (1r) In red capitals

    rubric: (1r) Marci Tullii Ciceronis Rethoricorum liber primus Incipit

    incipit: (1r) Sepe multum hoc mecum cogitaui

    explicit: (3r) considerare poterit

    rubric: (3r) Finit prologus

    rubric: (3r) Incipit de genere artis Rethorice Liber Primus

    incipit: (3r) Civilis quedam racio est

    Note: (35r) Liber II

    Note: (35r) Initial. Man shooting at butterfly

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (72r) que restant reliquis dicemus

    Note: f. 72v blank


    73r-136v - pseudo-Cicero, De ratione dicendi ad Herennium (Rhetorica ad Herennium)

    rubric: (73r) Marci Tullii Ciceronis in nova Rethorica Liber Primus Incipit

    incipit: (73r) At si in negociis familiaribus

    Note: Liber II

    incipit: (80v) In primo libro herenni

    Note: Liber III

    incipit: (95v) Ad omnem iudicialem causam

    Note: Liber IV

    incipit: (106v) Quoniam in hoc libro herenni

    explicit: (124v) ad sentenciarum exornacionem transeamus

    Note: Liber V

    Note: This manuscript preserves as Liber V the section of Liber IV concerning Figures of Thought (Liber IV: 47-69)

    incipit: (124v) Distribucio est cum in plures res

    Note: (Liber IV 47)

    Note: On f. 135r the lower part of col. 2 and all col. 1 on f. 135v are erased from

    Note: (135r) contorquet brachium et dubitanti gracho (Liber IV 68)

    Note: to

    Note: (135v) erceantur non habent, aut si diffisus sit (Liber IV 69)

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (136r) diligencia consequemur exercitacionis

    Note: On f. 136v is scribbled hart hary (?)

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