Codices Vossiani Latini
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Title:
Summarized description in English
Language:
Latin
Date range:
15th c.
Author(s):
M. Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Description:
VLO 66 is a 15th-c. parchment codex, its 69 leaves measuring 187 x 148 mm. The last 3 leaves are lost. Written space covers 145/150 x 100/105 mm (20-25 lines in dark ink). The text was written by a single scribe (the same one who wrote VLO 68) in Littera textualis gothica italica. At the start of each new book are major initials in red and blue. New parts start off with minor initials in red. Inscriptions and paragraph signs are rubricated. The codex has a 17th-c. cardboard binding, made for Melchisédech Thévenot.
Classification:
Antiquity - Classical literature - Rhetoric
Other Resources:
==> Library Catalogue Universiteit Leiden
==> Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections database
==> Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections database
DOI:
10.1163/9789004264243_O_066
Journal:
VLO 066 - Cicero