COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Document Collection
Record
Identifier:
exwsms176_bk
Manuscript Identifier:
MS 176
Title:
Leaf from De finibus bonorum et malorum
Alternative Title:
A leaf from Cicero's On the Ends of Good and Evil
Alternative Title:
MS 176
Incipit:
visset evelli iussit eam
Author:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Origin Date:
1463
Origin Location:
Italy
Description:
A leaf from Cicero's De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (on the ends of good and evil). Text is from Book II, the arguments against Epicureanism, paragraphs 30-31.
Provenance:
Possibly owned by Otto Ege who broke up the book.
Manuscript Parts:
f. [38] of original codex?
Extent:
1 leaf
Subject:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De finibus bonorum et malorum
Subject:
Ethics--Early works to 1800
Subject:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Subject:
Manuscripts, Medieval--15th century
Subject:
detached leaves
Language:
lat
Dimensions:
252 x 177 mm
Material:
parchment
Foliation:
f. 1r-v
Binding:
Small cut in corner. Pencil marking in Arabic number possibly indicating folio 38. Worm hole in lower margin.
Decoration Description:
1 column of 28 lines ruled in plummet.
Description of Hands:
Written in Italian Humanistic book hand.
Additions and Marginalia:
On recto, correction in the margin.
Is Part Of:
Medieval Document Collection
Is Part Of:
Manuscript 176, Western Michigan University Special Collections
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Date-Issued:
2019
Type:
Text
Format:
image/jp2
Access Rights:
This leaf is in the public domain. Western Michigan University holds the right to the image and reproduction. The images that are provided here are for non-profit, educational use only. For all other uses please contact Special Collections, Western Michigan University.
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