Manuscript Summary:This small-format codex contains Cicero's rhetorical work De inventione. The text, mostly in dark-, sometimes light-brown ink comes from multiple hands, which all have their own careful and consistent appearance. Except for some simple decorated initials, slightly larger at the beginning of the prologue and of both books, and the occasional red-ink accentuated capitals and text-beginnings, there is no book decoration whatsoever. A later inscription on 1r indicates that this is probably a volume from the milieu of Abbot Frowin of Engelberg (1143-1178).(grd)
Standard description: P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 150.
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Additional description: Bruckner Albert, Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica 8, Schreibschulen der Diözese Konstanz, Stift Engelberg, Genf 1950, S. 129.
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Online Since: 10/04/2011
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 154
Parchment · 125 ff. · 12.1 x 9.6 cm · Engelberg · 12th century
Cicero, Liber rhetoricorum de inventione
How to quote:
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 154, Front cover – Cicero, Liber rhetoricorum de inventione (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bke/0154)
P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 150.
Date of origin: exaratus saeculo XII.
Former shelfmark:
olim signatus 6/40.
Extent:
Foliorum 125
Format: 121 : 96 mm.
Page layout:
lineis plenis
Decoration: modice rubricatus
Contents:
Liber rethoricorum M. T. C(iceronis)) de inventione. Saepe et multum hoc cogitavi mecum …–…
quae restant in reliquis dicemus.
Cfr. Ciceronis opera. Ed. Orelli. Turici 1845. Tom. I praef. pag. V.