[De officiis ; De inventione rhetorica ; Partitiones oratoriae].
Contributors: Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Published: 1450
Language: lat
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Washington (D.C.); Ethics -- Early works to 1800; Oratory -- Early works to 1800; Invention (Rhetoric) -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Former owners: (Isaac?) Grant (inscribed with date 1771); Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps ms. 3941); Geo. Webber (inscribed); Albert May Todd (his ex libris).
Parke-Bernet Galleries. [Sale no. 313] Ornithological books by Gould, Sharpe and others, 1941, no. 202
Ricci, S. de.  Medieval and Renaissance mss. (suppl.), p. 113, C 5
Ms.
Titles supplied by cataloger based on actual contents. On spine: Cicero. Ms. membran.
Dated to mid-15th century on paleographical grounds.
Written in roman humanistic script, probably in Italy; by two or three scribes (change of script size from p. 44 to 45, 1st group; certain change of hand from p. 30 to 31, last group).
Each of the three works is introduced by an illuminated initial (large letter in greyish magenta filled with green in a field of laid gold); spaces left blank for minor initials remained unfilled. Tail margin of p. 1 excised.
Paginated in modern pencil; p. 138-140 of the 1st group are blank, as are p. 30 (where ca. 240 words of the text remained uncopied) and 140-[148] of the 2nd group.
Late 18th-cent. binding in red morocco with imitation à la dentelle décor in gilt.
Purchased by LC from Central Book Co., New York; accessioned Feb. 9, 1942 (LL 627895.