Content:
Part 1 contains texts by Cicero: (ff. 1r-38v) De officiis. - (ff.
39r-43v) Paradoxa stoicorum. - (ff. 44r-52r) De senectute. - (ff.
52v-61r) De amicitia. - (ff. 61v-108r) Disputationes Tusculanae
Part 2 contains: (ff. 109-150) Orationes Philippicae / Cicero. Note:
Origin: (part 1) Based on the decoration (see Byvanck database) and
notes. - (part 2) Based on the similarities with the other part of
this manuscript.
Date (part 1): Based on colophons: (f. 38v) "Ego guilhelmus de
Elden exscripsi hune librum Ciceronis de Officiis anno domini
1474° in vigilia beati Bartholomei Apostoli et donavi fratribus
Conventus Monasterii fontis Beate Marie ordinis Canonicorum
regularium Beati Augustini prope Arnhem quod protestor hoc manus
scripto mee. guilhelmus". - (f. 52r) "Finitus 1474 per guilhelmum
de Elden". - (f. 61r) "guilhelmus de Elden exscripsit hoc volumen
Ciceronis de Amicicia Anno domini 1474. Ad instantiam Fratrum
conventus Monasterii fontis beate Marie ordinis Canonicorum
regularium beati Augustini prope Arnhem". - (f. 108r) "... finita
per guilhelmum de Elden Anno domini 1474. 28 die Mensis
Novembris".
Date (part 2): Based on the similarities with part 1.
Script (part 1) Written by by Guilhelmus de Elden for the Canons
Regular of St. Mary at Marie͏̈nborn (Marie͏̈ndaal) in Arnhem
(see colophons). He also wrote codex BPL 45: 1-2, for the same
patrons.
Binding: Post-medieval binding.
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Geel 1852):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290750
Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294
Description (Gumbert 1984):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3183085
Also described by BNM, MMDC and A.W. Byvanckgenootschap (database
RKD, The Hague). Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century