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| Country of Location: |
Country of Location
Switzerland
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| Location: |
Location Genève |
| Library / Collection: |
Library / Collection
Bibliothèque de Genève
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| Shelfmark: | Shelfmark Ms. lat. 101 |
| Manuscript Title: | Manuscript Title Cicero, Orations |
| Caption: | Caption Parchment · III + 290 ff. · 23.7 x 16 cm · Basel (?) · 2nd third of the 15th century |
| Language: |
Language
Latin |
| Manuscript Summary: | Manuscript Summary One of the ancient authors best known in the
Middle Ages doubtlessly was Cicero. Some of his speeches - the Orationes - were rediscovered by humanists, as is attested by
this copy. The manuscript contains 27 of Cicero’s speeches, written in a round
Italian humanistic script. It begins with a miniature depicting a group of
speakers in a discussion (f. 1r), painted by Péronet Lamy, an illuminator who is documented
from 1432 until 1453 and who worked primarily for Amadeus VIII, the Duke of
Savoy. It is likely that Péronet Lamy carried out this decoration when he was at
the Council of Basel as part of the Duke’s entourage. Also present there was
Martin le Franc (1408-1461), ducal secretary and author of the Champion des Dames and the
Estrif de fortune et de vertu; according to a scraped entry (f. 290r), he came into
possession of this manuscript. Thereafter it belonged to Germain Colladon (back pastedown), a fellow student of John Calvin, who
fled to Geneva in 1550. Around 1615, one of his daughters-in-law sold the
manuscript, together with Ms. lat. 53, to the Bibliothèque de Genève. |
| Standard description: | Standard description Isabelle Jeger, Catalogue des manuscrits latins 1-376, Genève 2016, pp. 467-472.Show standard description |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | DOI (Digital Object Identifier 10.5076/e-codices-bge-lat0101 (http://dx.doi.org/10.5076/e-codices-bge-lat0101) |
| Permanent link: | Permanent link https://e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bge/lat0101 |
| IIIF Manifest URL: |
IIIF Manifest URL
https://e-codices.unifr.ch/metadata/iiif/bge-lat0101/manifest.json
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| How to quote: | How to quote Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 101: Cicero, Orations (https://e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bge/lat0101). |
| Online Since: | Online Since 03/22/2018 |
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| Document Type: |
Document Type
Manuscript |
| Century: |
Century
15th century |
| Decoration: |
Decoration
Figurative, Fully Painted, Gold / Silver, Initial, Margin, Ornamental, Text Block |
| Binding: |
Binding
17th century, 18th century |
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Die schönsten Seiten der Schweiz. Geistliche und weltliche Handschriften / Trésors enluminés de Suisse. Manuscrits sacrés et profanes, M. Bernasconi Reusser, C. Flüeler, B. Roux (ed.), Cinisello Balsamo 2020, 204-205, Nr. 32 (F. Elsig).