05187ntm a2200505 a 4500 9979828269303681 20260715104534.0 260206q14251475it 000 0 ita d (OCoLC)on1596079990 (OCoLC)1596079990 PAU eng amremm PAU lat grc lat Ms. Codex 2379 Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79032166 http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600 De officiis / Cicero. [Italy], [between 1425 and 1475?] 84 leaves : parchment ; 200 x 135 (140 x 80) mm bound to 205 x 150 mm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 15th-century Italian humanistic copy of Cicero's De officiis, a philosophical work on virtues and social duties and responsibilities, framed as a letter to Cicero's son Marcus. With marginal and interlinear notes, including a few marginal notes in Greek corresponding to mentions of Greek language or thought in the Latin text (f. 12r, 31r, 33v, 39r). Added notes in an informal cursive script at the end of the volume begin with "Si cupis omnia" and end with the Seven Ages of the World (f. 83v-84v). Some leaves in this manuscript are palimpsests with faintly visible undertext; they appear to be from 14th-century Italian documents written on one side only (for example, f.14v, 18v, 19r, 23r, 29r, 33r, 42v, 43r), with three notaries' marks also faintly visible (f.19r, 77r, 80v) (Christie's). Latin, with a few marginal notes in Greek (f. 12r, 31r, 33v, 39r). Title from spine. Collation: Parchment, iii (19th-20th century paper) + 84 + iii (19th-20th century paper); 1-7¹²; modern foliation in pencil, [1-84], upper right recto; catchwords lower center final verso (f. 12v, 24v, 36v, 48v, 60v, 72v). Layout: Written in 29 long lines; ruled in faint ink. Script: Written in a humanistic book hand. Decoration: 2 4-line initials in red with brown penwork (f. 1r, 35v) at the first two book divisions, with the initial and rubrication for the third book left undone (f. 56r); 2-3 line initials in red in the left margin at chapter divisions; simple decoration of catchwords with crosses; rubrication in red throughout; frequent readers' manicules into the beginning of the third book. Binding: 20th-century full vellum over pasteboards, Cicero De Officiis 15th Century in gilt capitals on spine. Origin: Written in Italy in the mid-15th century (Christie's). Sold at auction at Sotheby's (London) as "The Property of a Lady," misidentified as the Rhetorica, 23 January 1950, lot 446 (Christie's). Purchased by Maggs Bros. (London) at the Sotheby's sale, 23 January 1950 (Christie's). Purchased from Maggs Bros. by New York stockbroker and bibliophile Howard Lehman Goodhart, 5 May 1950 (note of date of purchase on Maggs typescript description inside back cover; leather book label inside front cover). Later owned by Renaissance scholar Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (leather book label inside front cover; 1913-1994, New York; daughter of Howard Lehman Goodhart; B.A., Bryn Mawr College, 1935, and M.A., Radcliffe College, 1938; founding member of the Renaissance Society of America, one of the first women admitted to membership of the Grolier Club, and trustee of the American Academy in Rome, the New York Public Library, and Bryn Mawr College), possibly after her father's death in 1951, her MS 108 (label at foot of spine, note in pencil in upper left corner of first flyleaf). Held on deposit in the Bryn Mawr College Library (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania), possibly from Phyllis Goodhart Gordan's death in 1994 until 2025, BMC 58 (Christie's). Sold at auction at Christie's (London) in the collection of Phyllis Goodhart Gordan, 10 December 2025, lot 10. Cicero, De officiis (Ms. Codex 2379). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania. Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 108 (p.404). Conduct of life Early works to 1800. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002009926 Philosophy Early works to 1800. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109238 codices (bound manuscripts) aat http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300224200 Manuscripts, Latin 15th century. Manuscripts, Renaissance. Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, former owner. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr99022084 http://viaf.org/viaf/78699777 Gordan, Phyllis Walter Goodhart, former owner. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84093220 http://viaf.org/viaf/64131789 Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. Ms. Codex 2379 9979828269303681 22903394460003681 01UPENN_INST KislakCntr Manuscripts Ms. Codex 2379 available 1 0 scmss 0 1 Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts 22903394460003681 Ms. Codex 2379 KislakCntr scmss