Codices Vossiani Latini
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Title:
Description in De Meyier Catalog
Language:
Latin
Date range:
Second half 15th c.; c. 1450 (per Gumbert, 1996)
Author(s):
M. Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Description:
VLF 14 is a parchment codex from the second half of the 15th c., its leaves measuring 355 x 230 mm. The codex is constructed of 31 quires of 5 bifolia, totalling 310 leaves (620 pages). Catchwords were added perpendiculary. Written space covers 250 x 135 mm (36-39 lines ruled in dark ink). The script is Littera humanistica textualis. The first letters to each work receive major initials in golden, decorated with branches and different colours. At the start of each book are minor initials, similarly decorated. Inscriptions are rubricated. The codex has a 19th-c. cardboard binding, protected by multi-coloured paper. The spine and corners are in dark leather. The modern binding replaces the one from Thévenot's time. Five flyleaves at the front, and four at the back, are the only remains of this old binding.
Classification:
Antiquity - Philosophy - Classical literature
Other Resources:
==> Library Catalogue Universiteit Leiden
==> Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections database
==> Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections database
DOI:
10.1163/9789004264243_F_014
Journal:
VLF 014 - Cicero