Description of Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 66: Epistolae ad familiares (Letters to friends) contributor Diane Biunno cataloger Amey Hutchins Council on Library and Information Resources Free Library of Philadelphia These images and the content of Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 66: Epistolae ad familiares (Letters to friends) are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 66: Epistolae ad familiares (Letters to friends). This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Paper flyleaves De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2057, no. 171. Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 73, no. 66. Free Library of Philadelphia. Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 26. United States Philadelphia Free Library of Philadelphia John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts Lewis E 66 https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1547291 171 This manuscript is a complete copy (excluding the first four letters of Book XVI, not due to missing leaves) of Cicero's Epistolae ad Familiares, completed in Ferrara on 12 March 1468 by Gregorius de Martinellis de Buccassolo, as noted in the closing colophon (fol. 174v). The text is divided into sixteen books, with an illuminated initial of gold on colored ground at the beginning of each book. The text is written in humanistic cursive, with alternating red and blue Square Capitals at the beginning of each letter and the letters numbered in the opening initials. Latin Epistolae ad familiares (Letters to friends) Cicero, Marcus Tullius former owner Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932 former owner Lewis, Anne Baker Marci Tulij Ciceronis Arpinatis Epistolarum familiarium liber ultimus explicit feliciter. M.cccc. lxviij. die xij. Martij Ferrariae hora ui quarta uigesima per me Gregorium de Martinellis de Buccassolo (fol. 174v) 1r Book I 14r Book II 22v Book III 33v Book IV 43r Book V 56r Book VI 67v Book VII 78r Book VIII 82v Book IX 98v Book X 113v Book XI 123r Book XII 134v Book XIII 153v Book XIV 158r Book XV 168r Book XVI

Parchment

 ii+175+ii; 256 x 176 mm bound to 260 x 186 mm Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto, occasionally upper right recto

1-17 (10), 18 (5, +1)

Vertical catchwords, lower right last verso

One column of thirty-one lines, ruled in hard-point; written area: 160 x 110 mm Humanistic cursive Scribe: Gregorius de Martinellis de Buccassolo One large eight-line white vine-scroll initial with partial border and space for coat of arms decorated with white vine-scroll (fol. 1r); illuminated initials at beginning of each book (fols. 1r, 14r, 22v, 33r, 43r, 56r, 67v, 78r, 82v, 98v, 113v, 123r, 134v, 153v, 158r, 168r); alternating red and blue two-line initials throughout; rubrication, running book numbers in upper margin, and some marginal notes in faded red ink 1rIlluminated initial E and partial white vine border 1rEffaced coat of arms with white vine scrollwork 13vManicule 14rIlluminated initial Q 22vIlluminated initial S 33vIlluminated initial T 43rIlluminated initial E 56rIlluminated intial E 67vIlluminated initial S 78rIlluminated initial Q 82vIlluminated initial E 98vIlluminated initial E 113vIlluminated initial Q 123rIlluminated initial F 134vIlluminated initial E 151rManicule 153vIlluminated initial E 158rIlluminated initial E 168rIlluminated initial V

Late seventeenth or early eighteenth-century, mottled calf, blind tooled and stamped concentric panel design, panels on spine tooled and stamped in gold, labeled TULLII EPIST: FAMIL: MSS

1468 March 12

Ferrara, Italy Sold by Pickering & Chatto, London, to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, 1923 (receipt inside back cover); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936 Book Type Accounts Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Document Dogale Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Gradual Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hymnal Koran Lectionary Mass book Miscellany Missal Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Saint's Life Scribal manual Torah Treatise Century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century Culture Abbasid Arabic Armenian Ashkenazi Austrian Byzantine Carolingian Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Flemish French German Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Fragment Gloss Gothic Gothic book hand Grisaille Grotesques Headpiece Heraldry Historiated initial Humanistic Illumination Illustration Inhabited initial Kufic Manicules Medallion Micrography Miniature Missing leaves Musical notation New Abbasid style Notable binding Original binding Ornament Painting Palimpsest Paper Penwork initial Puzzle initial Ragini Romanesque Scrapbook Scroll Scroll-work initial Seals Tables Textura Treasure binding Watermark White-vine lettering Woodcuts Geography Afghanistan Armenia Austria Belgium Central Arab lands (Near East) Central Asia China Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Astrology Astronomy Biblical Cartography Church Fathers Cosmology Devotion Financial records Fortune-telling Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Kabbalah Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maritime Mathematics Mineralogy Philosophy Piyutim Responsa Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Illumination 15th century Italian Italy Friendship White-vine lettering Humanistic Colophon Manicules