Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 a.C.n.)
This manuscript, in a strikingly narrow format, was created in Mainz and, as a gift from the Carthusians living there, it later came to the Carthusian monastery of Basel. It contains a large number of short and very short texts: in addition to some sermons, it mainly contains excerpts from theological, church historical and political treatises, including some in German.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Voluptas carnalis in omnibus nocet (68v)
Incipit: Tulius in libro de senectute. Ut enim adolescentem in quo senile aliquid est
Explicit: Eneas in Italiam venit
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This small-format codex probably is from the Carthusian monastery of Mainz, from where it came to the Carthusian monastery of Basel, where numerous ownership notes were added. It contains a great variety of excerpts from religious, historical and other literature from the Middle Ages and antiquity. The length of the texts also varies considerably: in addition to short excerpts and two- or four-line verses about various things such as popes or bees, there are longer pieces such as Hugh of Fouilloy's De rota verae et falsae religionis or the first half of Paradisus Animae by Pseudo-Albertus Magnus.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Adamus, de Einesham (Author) | Albertus, Magnus (Author) | Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Gratianus, de Clusio (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Henricus, de Langenstein (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Hugo, de Folieto (Author) | Hugo, de Sancto Victore (Author) | Hugo, Lincolniensis (Author) | Isaac, Ninivita (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Jacopone, da Todi (Author) | Johannes, Damascenus (Author) | Josephus, Flavius (Author) | Ludolphus, de Saxonia (Author) | Nicolaus, de Lyra (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Petrus, Lombardus (Author) | Prosper, de Aquitania (Author) | Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Valerius Maximus (Author) | Venturinus, de Bergamo (Author) | Vincentius, Bellovacensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel was written by various hands; it contains primarily astrological writings, among them texts by Abraham ibn Esra, Al-Zarkali and Hermes Trismegistus translated from the Arabic, Hebrew and Greek. In the margin of f. 120r there is a blessing against worms, on f. 145v medical advice in a blend of German and Latin. In addition to handwritten parts, the volume also contains three prints. One of the two original leather clasps is still intact.
Online Since: 03/29/2019
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Alfonsus, Bonihominis (Translator) | Aristoteles (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Translator) | Campanus, Johannes (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Florus, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Henricus, Bate (Translator) | Hermes, Trismegistus (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir (Author) | Johannes, de Lineriis (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Maġribī, as-Samauʾal Ibn-Yaḥyā al- (Author) | Nicolaus, de Tudeschis (Author) | Petrus, de Abano (Translator) | Petrus, De Andelo (Author) | Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Gaius (Author) | Ṯābit Ibn-Qurra (Author) | Valerius Maximus (Author) | Valescus, de Taranta (Author) | Zarqālī, Ibrāhīm Ibn-Yaḥyā az- (Author) Found in: Standard description
The extensively glossed Rhetorica ad Herennium in the front part of this composite manuscript was copied by Johannes Heynlin, who also brought this book with him to the Carthusian Monastery of Basel. The text from the 1st century BC represents the oldest surviving theory of rhetoric in Latin; it was very popular during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, as attested by a vast tradition of more than 100 manuscripts as well as translations into numerous European languages. The volume transmits principles of rhetoric that have remained valid until to this day.
Online Since: 12/14/2018
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Rhetorica ad Herennium, cum glossis (1r-146r)
Incipit: Etsi negociis familiaribus
Explicit: [Text] diligencia consequamur exercitacionis.
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- Augustinus, Dati (Author) | Bitz, Wilhelm (Restorer) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Heynlin, Johannes (Scribe) | Heynlin, Johannes (Former possessor) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
The so-called Liber ad honorem Augusti by Peter of Eboli is one of the most famous and most requested manuscripts in the Burgerbibliothek Bern. The manuscript is exceptionally richly illustrated; it is from a workshop in the circle of the imperial court in southern Italy. Neither the scribe nor the illustrator is known, but, the text was doubtlessly corrected by the author himself. The text, an epic poem in Latin in about 1700 distichs that has survived only in this manuscript, is divided into three books. The first two books describe the prehistory of Sicily and its conquest by the Staufers; the third book contains a poem in praise of the parents — Emperor Henry VI and his wife Constance, daughter and heir of King Roger II of Sicily — of the famous Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II, who was born on 26 December 1194 in Jesi near Ancona.
Online Since: 03/22/2018
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Bürger, Ulrike (Restorer) | Caesar, Gaius Iulius (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Petrus, de Ebulo (Author) | Varro, Marcus Terentius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
Extraordinary compilation of various texts by Isidore on secular (Etymologiae, De natura rerum) and ecclesiastic topics (Prooemia biblica, De ortu et obitu patrum; Allegoriae), as well as pieces on the Latin language (Differentia, Synonyma, Glossaria). This composite manuscript contains three full-page family trees as well as astronomical and geometric figures. Originally written in the scriptorium of Bishop Theodulf of Orléans, probably in Saint-Mesmin-de-Micy, this volume was soon held in Strasbourg, as attested by various Formulae iuris as well as a glossary of herbs and an incantation. From the holdings of Jacques Bongars, the volume came to Bern in 1632; here the original early 8th century flyleaves (Bern Burgerbibliothek, Cod. A 91.8) were removed around 1870.
Online Since: 06/18/2020
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De proprietate sermonum vel rerum. (181vb) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De proprietate sermonum vel rerum. (182ra–186rb)
Incipit: Incipit De proprietate sermonum vel rerum. Inter pollicere et promittere hoc interest
Explicit: Inter homines et bestias hoc interest, quod bestias ventri serviunt, homines rationi. Explicit feliciter.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Synonyma ad L. Victurium. (189ra–191va) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Synonyma ad L. Victurium. (191vb–193rb)
Incipit: Incipiunt sinonema Ciceronis. Inanis vanus verbosus vafer
Explicit: ordinem honorem inreligionem. Expliciunt.
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This manuscript, which was probably produced in Fleury, consists of two independent parts. The first part (f. 1-47) comprises three commentaries on the Old and the New Testament; the second part (f. 48-192) consists of a total of 14 glossaries containing a total of about 25,000 lemmas. A particularity of this manuscript is that it shows different stages in the development of glossaries side by side. The first part represents an earlier stage with definitions of words in the order of the source text, also containing glosses in Old English and Old High German. In the second part the glossaries are already more developed with entries on individual authors or certain topics, ordered alphabetically by keywords.
Online Since: 06/23/2016
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Synonyma ad L. Victurium [Fragment]. (190rb–191va) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Synonyma ad L. Victurium. (191va–192ra)
Incipit: Incipit prologus senonimae. [Collegi] haec verba qui plurimis modis in unum digestis dicentur Igitur ab oratore initium capiamus sic: Incipiunt glosae senonimae Ciceronis. Oratur actur defensor
Explicit: Sterilis infructuosa infecunda.
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This textual witness of the Rhetorica ad Herennium, erroneously attributed to Cicero, was produced in the Loire area. The manuscript gained great attention in the 19th century already because it contains a short library catalog from the 11th/12th century, which probably refers to books from the Abbey of Saint-Mesmin de Micy. The claim that the manuscript originated in Fleury, proposed by many earlier authors, is uncertain and has been rejected several times in recent times. This volume came to Bern in 1632 from the property of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Cicero (Pseudo-): Rhetorica ad Herennium; Catalogus librorum. Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Rhetorica ad Herennium. (1–4) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Rhetorica ad Herennium. (1r-79r) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Capitula. (1ra–2va)
Incipit: M. Tulli Ciceronis ad Herennium libri primi capitula incipiunt. I. De officio oratoris et quod eum recipere et habere conveniat
Explicit: Recapitulatio superiorum. Expliciunt capitula.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Buch I. (2v–10v)
Incipit: Incipit prohemium. M. Tulli Ciceronis ad Herennium artis rhetorice liber primus incipit. Et si negociis familiaribus in dicendi opere venire possimus. (5v) Verum hae tres utilitates
Explicit: tuae largiamur voluntati. M. Tulli Ciceronis ad Herennium liber I explicit.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Buch II. (10v–25v)
Incipit: Incipit liber II. In primo libri Herenni breviter exposuimus
Explicit: voluntati morem geramus.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Buch III. (26r–40r)
Incipit: Tertius liber rhetoricorum (von Hand des 15. Jh.). Ad omnem iudicalem causam
Explicit: exercitatione confirma. M. Tulli Ciceronis ad Herennium liber III explicit.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Buch IV. (40r–49r)
Incipit: Incipit liber IIII. Quoniam in hoc libro, Herenni
Explicit: quandam habet dignitatem. M. Tulli Ciceronis ad Herennium liber IIII explicit.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Buch V. (49r–64v)
Incipit: Incipit liber V feliciter. De verborum exornatione. Repetitio est
Explicit: ad sententiarum exornationem transeamus. M. Tulli Ciceronis ad Herennium liber V explicit.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Buch VI. (64v–79r)
Incipit: Incipit liber VI. Distributio est cum in plures res
Explicit: consequemur exercitationes. M. Tulli Ciceronis ad Herennium liber VI explicit.
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Two bifolia from a collection that contains, alongside a fragment of Guido of Arezzo's Versus de musicae explanatione, other rhetorical, metrological, and philosophical treatises. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Rhetorica ad Herennium (Exzerpte). (1r unten) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Cicero (Pseudo-): Rhetorica ad Herennium IV, 19–54 (Exzerpte). (3vb)
Incipit: Incipiunt rhetorici colores. Repetitio est cum continenter ab uno eodemque verbo
Explicit: Expolitio est, cum in eodem loco manemus et aliud et atque aliud dicere videmur.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Caecilius, Balbus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Guido, Aretinus (Author) Found in: Standard description
4 bifolia (= 1 quire) from a manuscript from Northeastern France, containing the Synonyma falsely attributed to Cicero. The (Pseudo-)Hebrew terms with Latin translations on the last leaf are interesting. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Cicero (Pseudo-): Synonyma ad L. Victurium; Vocabula hebraica (Fragment). Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Synonyma ad L. Victurium (Fragment). Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Synonyma ad L. Victurium [Fragment]. (1ra–8rf )
Incipit: Abditum: opertum absconsum obscurum
Explicit: Vitare: declinare cavere subtiliter fugere
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Three bifolia of a humanistic manuscript perhaps produced in Italy. This beautifully illuminated fragment contains the beginning of Cicero's De amicitia and came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Cicero: De amicitia (Fragment). Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De amicitia (Fragment). Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Cicero: De amicitia, Cap. 1–4. (1r–v)
Incipit: Marci Tulii Ciceronis de amicitia liber incipit. >Q
Explicit: meminisset Scaevola. Genus autem hoc sermonum
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Cicero: De amicitia, Cap. 8–21. (2r–5v)
Incipit: quem acceperis cum summi viri
Explicit: Catones, Galos, Scipiones, Philos; his
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Cicero: De amicitia, Cap. 24–27. (6r–v)
Incipit: intellegunt et re probant
Explicit: cogitatione quantum illa res utilitatis
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
4 bifolia (probably 1 quire) from a manuscript produced in Fleury. The content of the texts, which are partly designed as a student-teacher dialogue, ranges from orthography and grammer to the Artes liberales and the ages of the world to a glossary of the parts of the body. The fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De proprietate sermonum vel rerum (Fragment). Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Cicero (Pseudo-): De proprietate sermonum vel rerum. (1r–2r)
Incipit: Incipit dissonantia sermonum. Inter auxilium et praesidium et subsidium hoc interest
Explicit: Redivivum quod reviviscit.
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- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
Composite manuscript consisting of four very different parts that probably came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars; parts B and C are from the Collège de Navarre in Paris. All parts are at least partly illuminated. All fragments have related parts in other libraries: for part A, Paris BN lat. 7709, f. 1–4; for B, Paris BN lat. 17566, f. 1–40; for C, Paris BN lat. 17902, f. 1–85; and for D, Leiden UB, Voss. Q 2 IX (f. 60).
Online Since: 10/10/2019
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Topica. (1_1–8) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Topica (Fragment). (1r) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Topica, Cap. 1,1–19,73. (1v–8v)
Incipit: Epistola M. Tulii Ciceronis ad Trebatium in Topica. >M
Explicit: hec ergo argumentatio quae dicitur artis expres (corr. expers) in testimonio
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Coeur, Jean (Patron) | Florus, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Guido, de Grana (Annotator) | Iuvenalis, Decimus Iunius (Author) | Livius, Titus (Author) | Steiger, Karl Ludwig von (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This codex contains De senectute, De amicitia, the Paradoxa ad Brutum by Cicero, the Synonyma by Pseudo-Cicero, and the anonymous treatise De punctorum ordine. It was created in Italy in a humanistic script from the second half of the 15th century. The frontispiece and the intials introducing the various texts are decorated with “bianchi girari;“ on f. 1r the coat of arms with the golden lion rampant on a red background, framed by a laurel wreath, could not be identified.
Online Since: 12/13/2013
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De senectute Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Synonyma (f. 2) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Opera (f. 1-112v) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De senectute (1-44)
Incipit: O Tite si quid ego te adiuto curame leuasso
Explicit: quae ex me audistis re experti probare possitis.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De amicitia (44v-91)
Incipit: Quintus Mutius augur Sceuola multa narrare de Gaio Lęlio
Explicit: ea excepta nihil amicitia prestabilius putetis.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Paradoxa ad Brutum (92v-112v)
Incipit: Animaduerti Brute sępe Catonem auunculum tuum
Explicit: sed etiam inopes // f. 112v // et pauperes existimandi sunt
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Synonyma (f. 113-143) Found in: Standard description
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Johannes, Tortellius (Author) | Maggs Bros. Ltd. (Seller) | Schennis, Friedrich von (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains Cicero's speeches, which were copied out in a humanistic script of the 15th century. The book decoration consists of initials with „bianchi girari“ (white vine-stem) on colored background which introduce the various texts, and a frontispiece, the decoration of which extends across the entire page f. 1r. At the center of the bottom margin, surrounded by a laurel wreath, the coat of arms of the Medici family of Florence stands out, covering an even older coat of arms. The manuscript belonged to Cardinal Giovanni Salviati (1490-1553) from Florence and then to the Venetian monk and later manuscript dealer Luigi Celotti (1768-1848).
Online Since: 12/13/2013
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Orationes Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Orationes (f. 1-179v) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De imperio Cn. Pompei (f. 1-11v)
Incipit: Qvamquam mihi semper freqvens conspetvs vester
Explicit: et rationibus preferre oportere. Amen.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro T. Annio Milone (137-137v)
Incipit: Et si vereor iudices ne tempore sit
Explicit: optimum et sapientissimum quemque legit.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Cn. Plancio (28-45v)
Incipit: Cvm propter egregiam et singularem
Explicit: quas pro me sepe et multum profudistis
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro P. Sulla (f. 45v-59v)
Incipit: Maxime vellem vt P. Silla et antea
Explicit: falsam a nobis crudelitatis famam repellamus etc.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro A. Licinio Archia poeta (f. 59v-64v)
Incipit: Si qvid est in me ingenii iudices
Explicit: ab eo qui iudicium exercet certe scio.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro M. Marcello (f. 64v-69)
Incipit: Divtvrni silencii patres conscripti quo eram
Explicit: hoc tuo facto cumulus accesserit etc.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro rege Deiotaro (f. 69-75)
Incipit: Cum in omnibus cavsus gravioribus Gay Cęsar
Explicit: crudelitatis est Alterum conseruare clementię tuę.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Q. Ligario (f. 75-80)
Incipit: Novvm crimen gay Cesar et ante hunc diem
Explicit: salutem absenti dederis presentibus his omnibus te daturum.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Cum senatui gratias egit (142-146)
Incipit: Si patres conscripti Pro uestris immortalibus
Explicit: recuperauerim uirtutem et fidem nunquam amiserim.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Cum populo gratias egit (90-90v)
Incipit: Quod precatvs a iove Optimo maximo
Explicit: nisi me recuperasset cunctis suffragis iudicauit etc.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De domo sua (f. 90v-113v)
Incipit: Cvm mvlta (ce mot et ajouté au-dessus) divinitis pontifices A maioribus nostris
Explicit: manibus quoque meis uestris in sedibus meis collocetis.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro M. Caelio (f. 113v-124v)
Incipit: Si qvis iudices forte nunc adsit ignarus legum
Explicit: iudicium sustineatis quanta res sit commissa uobis
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro L. Cornelio Balbo (24-24v)
Incipit: Si avctoritates patronorum in iudiciis ualerent
Explicit: sed de beneficio Gn. Pompei iudicaturos.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: In P. Vatinium testem (138-138v)
Incipit: Si tva tantvmmodo quid indignitas
Explicit: non coarguo inconstantiam rationis ac testimonii tui ne quid tibi auctoritatis a me tributum esse uideatur.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De haruspicum responsis (150-150v)
Incipit: Hesterno die p.c. cvm me et uestra dignitas
Explicit: nobis sunt inter nos ire discordieque placande.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De prouinciis consularibus (83-88v)
Incipit: Si Qvis vestrvm p.c. expetat quas sim
Explicit: et cum suo inimico in gratiam non dubitarint redire.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Orationes in L . Catilinam (I-IV) (170-179v)
Incipit: Qvovsqve tandem abvtere Catilina patientia
Explicit: quo ad uiuet defendere et per se ipsum prestare possit.
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Celotti, Luigi (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Maggs Bros. Ltd. (Seller) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) | Salviati, Giovanni (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
While Cicero is regarded today mainly as a philosopher and politician, he was regarded during the middle ages mainly as a teacher of public rhetoric. This is demonstrated by CB 52, most likely of French origin, which consists of copies of "De inventione" and a work long attributed to Cicero, "Rhetorica ad Herennium". The manuscript dates from the beginning of the 12th century.
Online Since: 03/25/2009
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Cicero, De inventione Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Ps. Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium (f. 2r) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De inuentione (f. 1r-76r)
Incipit: Sepe et multum hoc mecum cogitaui
Explicit: que restant in reliquis dicemus. m. tvllii ciceronis rethoricorvm liber ii explicit.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Rhetorica ad Herennium (f. 79r-166r)
Incipit: Etsi negociis familiaribus impediti uix satis
Explicit: si rationes preceptionis diligentia consequamur exercitationis. M.T.C. L. R. ad H. Scriptus (au-dessus: «sextus») explicit.
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) | Robinson, William H. Ltd. (London) (Seller) | Varenne de Fenille, Philibert C. (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
10th century manuscript of Italian origin, which contains numerous works of rhetoric: the Ars rhetorica by Fortunatianus, the Principia rhetorices by Augustine, the Praecepta artis rhetoricae by Julius Severianus and the Partitiones oratoriae by Cicero. In the 14th century, it became the property of Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), who, at various times of his life, added numerous marginal notes. The manuscript demonstrates the humanist's interest in the Oratores latini minores (minor Latin orators), which contributed to their rediscovery and proliferation.
Online Since: 04/09/2014
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Partitiones oratoriae (f. 2) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Partitiones oratoriae (f. 35-38v)
Incipit: Studeo mi pater latine ex te
Explicit: liberi propinqui adfines
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Fortunatianus, Consultus (Author) | Guarnieri Ottoni, Aurelio (Patron) | Guarnieri Ottoni, Aurelio (Former possessor) | Iulius, Severianus (Author) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Lathrop C. Harper Inc. (New York, N.Y.) (Seller) | Petrarca, Francesco (Annotator) | Petrarca, Francesco (Former possessor) | Rauch, Nicolas (Seller) | Rosenthal, Bernard M. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
This late Renaissance Italian humanist manuscript contains excerpts of various works by Latin and Greek authors, among them Pliny, Cicero, Silius Italicus, Plautus, Livy, Horace, Sallust, Plutarch, Seneca and others. Pellegrin, following Tammaro de Marinis, attributes the writing to the copyist Gian Marco Cinico, who worked for the kings of Naples between 1458 and 1494. The different parts are introduced by golden initials with bianchi girari, only partly completed (ff. 1v, 4v, 20r, 22r, 50r, 186v). Some of these bianchi girari are left unfilled on a blue, red, green or black background, others are colored pink, green or blue on a black or golden background. The vine scrolls are inhabited by putti and animals such as rabbits, stags, butterflies or birds. Numerous frames show putti engaged in hunting or other playful activities (e.g., ff. 55r, 79r, 139r, 169r).
Online Since: 12/17/2015
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistulae ad familiares (f. 1v-4v) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Opera (f. 79-109) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De officiis (f. 79-99) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Paradoxa ad Brutum (f. 99-101) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De amicitia (f. 101v-105) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De senectute (f. 105-109) Found in: Standard description
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Catullus, Gaius Valerius (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Cinico, Giovan Marco (Scribe) | Claudianus, Claudius (Author) | Heilbrun, Georges (Seller) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Livius, Titus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Plautus, Titus Maccius (Author) | Plinius Secundus <Iunior> (Author) | Plutarchus (Author) | Rinutius, Aretinus (Translator) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius Asconius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) | Vitruvius (Author) Found in: Standard description
The text De verborum significatu by the Latin grammarian Pompeius Festus is an extremely valuable dictionary of Latin language and mythology for those seeking to understand the world of the Romans. This manuscript is of Italian origin and retains its contemporary binding with a wooden cover. It was written during the 15th century on parchment and contains lovely gilded initials on a blue and red background. Quotations have been added in the margins to explain certain words in the text. The last leaves in the volume contain excerpts from Greek and Latin authors.
Online Since: 06/02/2010
- Apicius (Author) | Aristophanes (Author) | Asconius Pedianus, Quintus (Author) | Berchem, Denis van (Former possessor) | Bruni, Leonardo (Translator) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Festus, Sextus Pompeius (Author) | Gellius, Aulus (Author) | Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Author) | Livius, Titus (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Author) | Plutarchus (Author) | Schennis, Friedrich von (Former possessor) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Servius (Author) | Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius (Author) | Varro, Marcus Terentius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This is a composite manuscript containing works with philosophical and rhetorical content. At the beginning are translations by Boethius of Aristotle's Categories and the Peri Hermeneias; these are followed by a piece called De Dialectica and Cicero's Topica with In Topica Ciceronis, the commentary by Boethius.
Online Since: 08/12/2010
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Topica (P. 72-92) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Annotator) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Topica (72-92) Found in: Additional description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Annotator) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Topica (p. 72-92) Found in: Additional description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Annotator) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
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).
Online Since: 10/04/2011
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Liber rethoricorum M. T. C(iceronis)) de inventione.
Incipit: Saepe et multum hoc cogitavi mecum
Explicit: quae restant in reliquis dicemus.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Cicero, Liber rhethoricorum de inventione. Found in: Additional description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) Found in: Additional description
This single-column paper manuscript is dated December 20, 1453 (f. 163r). The Liber officiorum was written by a main hand, which also added the red marginalia throughout the manuscript. A second hand is responsible for the interlinear glosses, other marginalia and red manicules. Chapter headings and lombards were kept in red throughout. The three parts of the work are each introduced by an initial containing a figure (f. 1r, 69r, 112v). Fol. 1r was additionally decorated with a frame of plant ornaments. The ex-libris on the front pastedown names Georg Alfred Kappeler (1839-1916, theologian and pastor) from Frauenfeld as the owner of the paper manuscript. The Kappeler family is proven to have lived in Frauenfeld since 1443. Due to their influential activities as governors, teachers and pastors, in the 19th century the Kappeler family was part of the educated middle class, to which Georg Alfred Kappeler also belonged. His legacy lives on today through several valuable manuscripts and prints still held by the Cantonal Library of Thurgau.
Online Since: 12/10/2020
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Kappeler, Alfred (Former possessor)
Le Mignon is a collection of various historical narratives and moral or philosophical texts. Henri Romain is the author of the summary of the three decades of Titus Livius and the Compendium historial, a compilation of ancient stories. Laurent de Premierfait is the translator of De la vieillesse by Cicero, and Jean Courtecuisse translated Des Quatre vertus cardinales by Seneca. This manuscript from the studio of Maître François presents seven beautiful frontispiece illuminations.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De la vieillesse (F. 481-514)
Incipit: Cy commence le prologue du translateur ou livre de Tulles de viellesse.
Explicit: Cy fine Tulles de viellesse translaté pour le duc Loys de Bourbon par Laurens de Premierfait, l’an mil CCCC et V.
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- Berchorius, Petrus (Translator) | Bruni, Leonardo (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | François, Meister (Illuminator) | Johannes, de Brevicoxa (Translator) | Laurent, de Premierfait (Translator) | Le Bègue, Jean (Translator) | Livius, Titus (Author) | Lullin, Ami (Former possessor) | Martinus, Bracarensis (Author) | Nemours, Jacques d'Armagnac de Castres de (Former possessor) | Petau, Alexandre (Former possessor) | Romain, Henri (Author) Found in: Standard description
“Lives of philosophers” constitute a subcategory of the ancient literary genre of “lives of illustrious men” that was considered anew beginning in the 12th century. The Latin text of this manuscript, the Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum veterum, attributed to Gautier Burley (actually an anonymous Italian author from the early 14th century), consists of a collection of moral maxims from various philosophers, whose names are indexed at the end of the work (f. 93r-94r). This copy, dated 1452, may be from the Abbey of Saint-Denis and later was the property of Paul and Alexandre Petau, before becoming part of the holdings of the Bibliothèque de Genève as part of the bequest of Ami Lullin.
Online Since: 10/10/2019
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Burlaeus, Gualterus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Author) | Lentulus (Author) | Lullin, Ami (Former possessor) | Petau, Paul (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Cicero's De officiis of is a political work on ethics, used throughout the Middle Ages, from Augustine, to the compilers of his moral sequences, to Christine de Pizan in her Chemin de long estude. Numerous commentaries have been written on this work, as attested by this 15th century paper manuscript. On the last double page (f. 120v-121r) the ethical theme of the Ciceronian text is continued as a schema of virtues. This manuscript was in the possession of the regent of the Collège de Genève, Hugues Lejeune (1634-1707), who donated it to the Bibliothèque de Genève.
Online Since: 10/08/2020
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De officiis (Les devoirs), de Cicéron Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Dufour-Vernes, Louis Théophile (Librarian) | Senebier, Jean (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
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.
Online Since: 03/22/2018
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Discours (Orationes), de Cicéron Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Discours de Cicéron (IIr-IIIv) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Liber oracionum Tulii quarum prima de Laudibus Pompeii. (f. 1r) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De imperio Cnaei Pompei oratio sive de lege Manilia (f. 1r-11r)
Incipit: Quamquam michi semper frequens conspectus vester
Explicit: commodis et rationibus preficere oportere.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Q. Ligario ad C. Caesarem (f. 11r-15v)
Incipit: Novum crimen C. Cesar et ante hunc diem inauditum
Explicit: salutem dederis presentibus his te daturum.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro T. Annio Milone oratio (f. 15v-30r)
Incipit: Etsi vereor judices ne turpe sit pro fortissimo viro
Explicit: optimum et sapientissimum quemque legit.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro P. Sulla oratio (f. 30r-43r)
Incipit: Maxime vellem judices ut P. Silla et antea dignitatis sue
Explicit: falsam a nobis crudelitatis famam repellamus.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Marc[o] Marcello (f. 43r-46v)
Incipit: Diuturni silentii patres conscripti quo eram his temporibus
Explicit: maximus hoc tuo facto cumulus accesserit.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Ciceronis pro Sex[to] Roscio [Amerino] oratio. (f. 46v-65r)
Incipit: Credo ego vos judices miraturi quid sit quod cum tot summi
Explicit: sensum omnem humanitatis ex animis amictimus.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Cn. Planco (f. 65r-81v)
Incipit: Cum propter egregiam et singularem Cn. Planci judices
Explicit: recordor quas pro me sepe et multum profudististis
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Oratio ad Romanos pridie quam iret in exilium (f. 81v-85r)
Incipit: Si quando inimicorum impetum propulsare ac propellere
Explicit: vite periculis vestra virtute conservetis.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Publio Sestio oratio (f. 85r-98r)
Incipit: Si quis antea judices mirabatur quid esset quod pro tantis
Explicit: eos conservetis per quos me recuperavistis.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Oratio cum senatui gratias egit, ou Post reditum in senatu habita (f. 98r-103v)
Incipit: Si patres cumscripti sic pour : conscripti pro vestris immortalibus in me
Explicit: virtutem et fidem numquam amiserim.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro M. Caelio oratio (f. 103v-114v)
Incipit: Si quis judices forte nunc assit ignarus legum judiciorum
Explicit: sustineatis quanta res sit commissa vobis.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro L. Cornelio Balbo oratio (f. 114v-123r)
Incipit: Si auctoritates patronorum in judiciis valerent
Explicit: sed de beneficio Cn. Pompeii judicaturos.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: In P. Vatinium testem oratio (f. 123r-127r)
Incipit: Si tua tantummodo Vatini quod indignitas postularet
Explicit: tibi auctoritatis a me tributum esse videantur.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Oratio de haruspicum responsis (f. 127r-137v)
Incipit: Hesterno die Patres Conscripti cum me et vestra
Explicit: Nostre nobis sunt inter nos ire discordieque placande.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De provinciis consularibus oratio (f. 137v-145r)
Incipit: Si quis vestrum Patres Conscripti expectat quas sim
Explicit: et cum meo inimico in gratiam non dubitarint redire.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Oratio cum populo gratias egit, ou Post reditum ad Quirites habita (f. 145r-148v)
Incipit: Quod precatus a Jove optimo maximo ceterisque diis
Explicit: nisi me recuperasset cunctis suffragiis judicavit.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Lucio Flacco (f. 149r-163r)
Incipit: Cum in maximis periculis huius urbis atque imperii
Explicit: vel vetustatis vel hominis causa reipublice reservate.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Egregia oratio pro rege Deyotaro (f. 163r-168v)
Incipit: Cum in omnibus causis gravioribus C. Cesar initio
Explicit: eorum crudelitatis est alterum conservare clementie tue.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro P. Quinto. sic pour Quinctio (f. 169r-181r)
Incipit: Que res in civitate due plurimum possunt hec contra
Explicit: perduxit eadem usque ad rogum persequatur.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De domo sua ad pontifices oratio (f. 181r-203r)
Incipit: Cum multa divinitus pontifices a maioribus nostris inventa
Explicit: manibus quoque vestris in sedibus meis collocetis.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: M.T.C. oratio pro A. Cluentio (f. 203r-229v)
Incipit: Animadverti judices omnem accusatoris orationem in duas
Explicit: in contionibus esse invidie locum in judiciis veritati.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro A. Caecina oratio (f. 229v-242v)
Incipit: Si quantum in agro locisque desertis audatia potest tantum
Explicit: quid racio interdicti de jure admoneant judicetis.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro C. Rabirio Postumo oratio (f. 242v-248r)
Incipit: Si quis est judices qui C. Rabirium quod fortune sue
Explicit: fortuna eripuerat nisi unius opus subvenissent.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro C. Rabirio perduellionis reo oratio (f. 248r-253v)
Incipit: Etsi Quirites non est mee consuetudinis inicio dicendi
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Q. Roscio comoedo oratio (f. 253v-259v)
Incipit: // maliciam nature crederetur. Is scilicet vir optimus
Explicit: id Fannius societati hoc est Roscio debeat.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Lucio Murena (f. 267r-280 bis v)
Incipit: Quae deprecatus ab diis inmortalibus sum judices more
Explicit: labefactat futurum esse promittam et spondeam.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: M. T. C. oratio pro A. Licinio Archia (f. 281r-285r)
Incipit: Si quid est in me ingenii judices quod sentio quam sit
Explicit: partem accepta ab eo qui judicium exercet certe scio.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Colladon, Germain (Former possessor) | Lamy, Péronet (Illuminator) | Martin, Lefranc (Scribe) | Martin, Lefranc (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript from the middle of the 15th century is from the Augustinian hermitage in Basel. Since 1470, several brothers there cared for the pilgrimage site Mariastein. This volume was probably left there and was found by the monks from Beinwil, when they took over the pilgrimage site in 1636. It contains, among others, sacred (S. Bonaventura), profane (Cicero, Sallust), historical (Piccolomini/Pius II.) and rhetorical (Laurentius de Aquileja) texts. The second part of the volume, containing the Rhetorica , was written in 1465/66 by the Augustinian Matthias Glaser from Breisach in Basel. A fragment glued to the interior of the front cover gives information regarding the content of the volume.
Online Since: 09/26/2017
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: [Laelius seu] de amicitia. (72r-87v) Found in: Standard description
- Anonymus, Erfordiensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Fliscus, Stephanus (Author) | Friedrich III., Heiliges Römisches Reich, Kaiser (Author) | Glaser, Matthias (Author) | Glaser, Matthias (Scribe) | Johannes, de Fonte (Author) | Laurentius, de Aquilegia (Author) | Petrus, Marcellus (Author) | Pius II, Papa (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Anonymus, Erfordiensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Fliscus, Stephanus (Author) | Friedrich III., Heiliges Römisches Reich, Kaiser (Author) | Glaser, Matthias (Author) | Glaser, Matthias (Scribe) | Johannes, de Fonte (Author) | Laurentius, de Aquilegia (Author) | Petrus, Marcellus (Author) | Pius II, Papa (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) Found in: Additional description
The largest part of this voluminous manuscript consists of an abbreviated version of the Universal Chronicle of Platterberg/Truchseß, completed in 1459 (pp. 3−796), which in the older literature is also referred to as the “St. Gall Universal Chronicle.” This chronicle also contains the so-called St. Galler Cato (pp. 259−260; Disticha Catonis; Von Catho dem weysen und seinen spruchen), a partial German translation of the work De officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero (pp. 263−265); as well as more quotations from other works by Cicero (pp. 265−271). Next are a German version of the fictional correspondence between Alexander the Great and Dindimus, King of the Brahmins, written by Meister Wichwolt (pp. 809−815); Cronica Allexandri des grossen konigs), the German version of the History of the Three Kings (Historia trium regum) by John of Hildesheim (pp. 816−854); and the report about Jean de Mandeville's travel to India in the German translation by Otto von Diemeringen (pp. 854−917). At the end (pp. 918−940), the volume contains an incomplete version of the travelogue of Johannes Schiltberger (1380 – after 1427) from Bavaria, who had been taken captive by the Ottomans. The book decoration consists of numerous red and blue Lombard initials. In 1570, the volume was owned by Luzius Rinck von Baldenstein (p. 940), brother-in-law of Prince-Abbot Diethelm-Blarer (1530-1564) of St. Gall; at the latest by the 17th century, the volume became part of the holdings of the monastery library of St. Gall (p. 3: Liber Monasterii S. Galli).
Online Since: 06/23/2016
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Babiloth, Meister (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Johannes, Hildesheimensis (Author) | John, Mandeville (Author) | Otto, von Diemeringen (Translator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Platterberger, Johannes (Author) | Schiltberger, Hans (Author) | Truchsess, Dietrich (Author) | Twinger von Königshofen, Jakob (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Babiloth, Meister (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Johannes, Hildesheimensis (Author) | John, Mandeville (Author) | Otto, von Diemeringen (Translator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Platterberger, Johannes (Author) | Schiltberger, Hans (Author) | Truchsess, Dietrich (Author) | Twinger von Königshofen, Jakob (Author) Found in: Additional description
A compendium of 39 medical texts by known and unknown authors, produced in the second half of the 9th century, most likely in northern Italy, already obtained at an early date by the Abbey Library of St. Gall. This codex includes—sometimes in unique exemplars—an alphabetically ordered Greek-Latin herbal glossary, the treatise De re medica by one Pseudo-Plinius (Physica Plinii), and a longer medical tract entitled Liber Esculapii.
Online Since: 12/23/2008
- Galenus: De erbas Galenii et Apollei et Cironi (S. 417-424) Found in: Standard description
- Anthemius, Trallianus (Author) | Apuleius, Madaurensis (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Arsenius, Hypselites (Author) | Aurelius, Esculapius (Author) | Brasavola, Antonio Musa (Author) | Caelius, Aurelianus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Democritus, Abderita (Author) | Dioscorides, Pedanius (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Oribasius (Author) | Platon (Author) | Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Author) | Vindicianus, Afer (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Anthemius, Trallianus (Author) | Apuleius, Madaurensis (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Arsenius, Hypselites (Author) | Aurelius, Esculapius (Author) | Brasavola, Antonio Musa (Author) | Caelius, Aurelianus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Democritus, Abderita (Author) | Dioscorides, Pedanius (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Oribasius (Author) | Platon (Author) | Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Author) | Vindicianus, Afer (Author) Found in: Additional description
A small-format compendium of ten different medical texts, produced shortly after 800 in an unknown scriptorium, probably in Italy. The contents also include a treatise by the Greek physician Anthimus in the form of a letter to the king of the Franks Theoderich "On the diet" (De observatione ciborum), through which we gain insight to the nutritional habits of one Germanic people.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
- Galenus: De erbas galieni et apollei et ciceronis (S. 72-132) Found in: Standard description
- Anthemius, Trallianus (Author) | Anthimus, Medicus (Author) | Apuleius, Madaurensis (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Gargilius Martialis, Quintus (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Oribasius (Author) | Platon (Author) | Vindicianus, Afer (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Anthemius, Trallianus (Author) | Anthimus, Medicus (Author) | Apuleius, Madaurensis (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Gargilius Martialis, Quintus (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Oribasius (Author) | Platon (Author) | Vindicianus, Afer (Author) Found in: Additional description
A copy of Aristotle's Categoriae (Categories) and De interpretatione (On interpretation) in Latin with commentaries by Boethius, with translation into Old High German and additional commentaries by St. St. Gall monk and teacher Notker the German († 1022); written during the 11th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. In addition, the manuscript includes copies of two works by Cicero, the Topica and De optimo genere oratorum.
Online Since: 04/15/2010
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Translator) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Translator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Topica (p. 247-287) Found in: Additional description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De optimo genere oratorum (p. 288-295) Found in: Additional description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Translator) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Translator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Translator) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Translator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
A school manuscript from the Abbey of St. Gall containing texts for the subjects of dialectic and rhetoric. The manuscript provides copies of the commentaries of Boethius on the Categories and on the Hermeneutics of Aristotle, a selection of the rhetorical tract by Alcuin († 804) with many schematic diagrams, and copies of Cicero's works De inventione and De optimo genere oratorum. The texts were copied around the end of the 9th century and during the 10th century and contain a multitude of Latin and Old High German glosses as well as numerous glosses in dry point from the 10th through 12th centuries.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De inventione (I-II) (p. 72-172) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Author) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Annotator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Robertus, Helveticus (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus: Bœtius in Periermenias Aristotelis. Cicero, De inventione libri II; et alia. Found in: Additional description
- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Author) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Annotator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Robertus, Helveticus (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Author) | Notkerus, Teutonicus (Annotator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Robertus, Helveticus (Author) Found in: Additional description
A composite manuscript intended for teaching purposes, written in Mainz during the first half of the 11th century, possibly brought to St. Gall by the monk Ekkehart IV. Ekkehart IV. taught intermittently at the cathedral school in Mainz and added a great many glosses to this manuscript. The codex gathers together a number of texts used in school teaching, for example copies of the commentary of Boethius on Aristotle's De interpretatione, Cicero's Topica, the Geometry I by (pseudo?)-Boethius as well as additional works by Boethius, such as De differentiis topicis, De divisione, De syllogismis categoricis and De syllogismis hypotheticis. At the end of the volume are two brief texts by Ekkehart IV. about the Septem Artes Liberales, (on page 488) verses in praise of Boethius and (on page 490) an allegory based on the Septem Artes Liberales in the form of instructions to a goldsmith.
Online Since: 04/15/2010
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Caecilius, Balbus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Epaphroditus, Gromaticus (Author) | Vitruvius, Rufus (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Topica (p. 265-282) Found in: Additional description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Caecilius, Balbus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Epaphroditus, Gromaticus (Author) | Vitruvius, Rufus (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Topica (265-82) Found in: Additional description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Caecilius, Balbus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Epaphroditus, Gromaticus (Author) | Vitruvius, Rufus (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Caecilius, Balbus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Epaphroditus, Gromaticus (Author) | Vitruvius, Rufus (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Aristoteles (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Caecilius, Balbus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Annotator) | Epaphroditus, Gromaticus (Author) | Vitruvius, Rufus (Author) Found in: Additional description
A composite manuscript from the 11th century, possibly written at the Abbey of St. Gall. The main content of the codex consists of commentaries by Boethius on Cicero's Topica and on the Isagoge by the neoplatonic philosopher Porphyrius († after 300), Porphyrius's Isagoge itself and assorted other texts. Among these are, for example, small pieces by Walahfried Strabo (Regulae metricae; a letter with the incipit Domino meo benedictus salus et vita) and by Marius Victorinus, a 4th century Roman scholar (De generatione divina).
Online Since: 04/15/2010
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius () Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius () Found in: Standard description
This codex, written in humanist minuscule, contains philosophical works by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC): pp. 3–121 Tusculanae disputationes (“Tusculan Disputations”), pp. 121–248 De finibus bonorum et malorum (“On the Ends of Good and Evil”), pp. 249–344 De natura deorum (“On the Nature of the Gods”) and pp. pp. 345–416 De divinatione (“On Divination”). The coat of arms on p. 3 (four bearded male faces in profile, arranged in a circle) most likely was that of the later Pope Nicholas V, born Tommaso Parentucelli (1397–1455, Pope 1447–1455). Parentucelli used this coat of arms (“stemma delle quattro barbe”, Manfredi, p. 662) in the years before he was elected pope. It is found in 38 manuscripts in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in Rome as well as in a codex in the Biblioteca Capitolare in Padua (ms. C27). The white vine initials, typical of Florentine book decoration, are similar to those in the codex from Padua, whose illuminations Silvia Fumian attributes to the Florentine artist Bartolomeo Varnucci (* ca. 1412/1413). Perhaps Parentucelli commissioned this manuscript in 1439–1443, when he resided in Florence for the Council.
Online Since: 10/13/2016
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Tusculanae quaestiones, Definibus b. et m., De natura deorum, De divinatione. Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Tusculanae quaestiones, Definibus b. et m., De natura deorum, De divinatione. Found in: Standard description
- Bartolomeo, d'Antonio di Luca di Iacopo Varnucci (Illuminator) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Nikolaus V., Papst (Patron) Found in: Standard description
This codex probably did not originate in St. Gall; it contains two important works of rhetoric: Cicero's De inventione (pp. 3–107) and the Rhetorica ad Herennium (pp. 107–205). Here the latter work is divided into six rather than four books. There are numerous glosses by hands from the 12th to the late 15th or early 16th century.
Online Since: 06/22/2017
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Rhetorica ad Herennium. (S. 107-205) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript, probably not written in St. Gall, contains Cicero's Topica on pp. 1-21 (defective at the end), and Boethius' commentary on that work on pp. 21-216. On the inside of the front cover, one can discern the negative impression of a page from the Edictum Rothari (Cod. Sag. 730, p. 17).
Online Since: 12/13/2013
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Topica Ciceronis (S. 1-21) Found in: Standard description
- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: in Topica Cic. Found in: Additional description
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Topica (Pp. 1-21)
Explicit: ab optimo quoque laudata atque ut haec in comparatione
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- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) Found in: Additional description