Cicero, Livre de vieillesse. Idem, Livre d'amitié

AuthorCicero

Shelfmark The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 128 C 3

Origin & date Southern Netherlands; c. 1490

Physical description

Vellum, ff. 207, 344x232 (200x120) mm, 20 lines, littera cursiva (lettre bourguignonne). French. Binding: 18th-century brown leather, gilt, with coat of arms of Stadtholder William V

Illumination

2 full-page miniatures (210/200x128/121 mm) with border decoration, 2 miniature (158x122 mm) with border decoration; 1 historiated initial (51x55 mm); 5 illustrations in the margin (coats of arms); decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 1r, 29r, 94r, 118r)

Provenance

Made for Adolf of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein (d. 1492); by inheritance to his son Philip of Cleves (d. 1528); purchased in 1531 from his estate by Henri III, Count of Nassau (d. 1538); by inheritance to the Princes of Orange-Nassau, the later Stadtholders, at The Hague; taken to Paris in 1798 by the French occupying forces and restituted in 1816 to the KB

Bibliography

Oranje-Nassau Boekerij 1898, no. 34. - Byvanck 1931, p. 49. - Monfrin 1964, p. 235. - Monfrin 1964, p. 259. - Brandhorst & Broekhuijsen-Kruijer 1985, no. 436. - Renting, Renting & Korteweg 1993, no. 3478

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Type	Manuscript book
NU	xxx
Language of record	nl
Source project(s)	MSS; BYVANCK; KBMSS
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 128 C 3
Title (index form)	Livre de vieillesse; Livre d'amitié
Language of origin code	sn
Place of origin	Southern Netherlands
Date of origin	1490 (c.)
Related names/collections	Stadtholders, Coll.; Adolf of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein; Philip of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein; Henri III, Count of Nassau; Orange-Nassau, Princes of; Paris, Biblioth`eque Nationale
Cataloguer's note	ask 9-99. 6-2000
Language	French
Language (Dutch)	Frans
Geographic code	03 SN

8 illuminations catalogued

f. 28vfull-page miniature

Cato Maior disputing with Scipio Minor and Caius Laelius on old age

Cicero, Livre de viellesse, part 3

1490 (c.)

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Sequence no.	4727
Sequence (global)	8987
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 128 C 3
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 128 C 3
Image size (mm)	200x128
Type	manuscript illumination
Cataloguer's note	tgvgd gcdrd. B&BK 1985: 'Discussie tussen Scipio, Laelius en Cato de Oudere over de ouderdom'
Scene order key	28v
Language of origin code	2 Southern Netherlands
Note	Not available = 128C3_028V_MIN.JPG

f. 28vmargin

Coat of arms of Adolf of Cleves

Cicero, Livre de viellesse, part 3

1490 (c.)

46A122(CLEVES, Adolf of)1

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Sequence no.	4728
Sequence (global)	8988
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 128 C 3
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 128 C 3
Type	manuscript illumination
Cataloguer's note	tgvgd gcdrd. Niet in B&BK 1985
Scene order key	28v
Language of origin code	2 Southern Netherlands
Note	Not available = 128C3_028V_RANDV.JPG

f. 29rmargin

Coat of arms of Adolf of Cleves

Cicero, Livre de viellesse, part 3

1490 (c.)

46A122(CLEVES, Adolf of)1

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Sequence no.	4729
Sequence (global)	8989
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 128 C 3
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 128 C 3
Type	manuscript illumination
Cataloguer's note	tgvgd gcdrd. Niet in B&BK 1985
Scene order key	29r
Language of origin code	2 Southern Netherlands
Note	Not available = 128C3_029R_RANDV.JPG

f. 42rminiature

Cato Maior disputing with Scipio Minor and Caius Laelius on old age

Cicero, Livre de viellesse, part 4

1490 (c.)

49C4 98B(CATO THE ELDER)5 98B(LAELIUS, C.)5 98B(SCIPIO AFRICANUS MINOR)5

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Sequence no.	4730
Sequence (global)	8990
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 128 C 3
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 128 C 3
Image size (mm)	157x122
Type	manuscript illumination
Cataloguer's note	tgvgd gcdrd. B&BK 1985: 'Discussie tussen Cato de Oudere, Scipio en Laelius over de ouderdom'
Scene order key	42r
Language of origin code	2 Southern Netherlands
Note	Not available = 128C3_042R_MIN.JPG

f. 68rminiature

Cicero and Cato Maior disputing with Scipio Minor and Caius Laelius on old age

Cicero, Livre de viellesse, part 5

1490 (c.)

49C4 98B(CATO THE ELDER)5 98B(CICERO)5 98B(LAELIUS, C.)5 98B(SCIPIO AFRICANUS MINOR)5

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Sequence no.	4731
Sequence (global)	8991
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 128 C 3
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 128 C 3
Image size (mm)	159x123
Type	manuscript illumination
Cataloguer's note	tgvgd gcdrd. B&BK 1985: 'Cicero, Cato de Oudere, Scipio en Laelius'
Scene order key	68r
Language of origin code	2 Southern Netherlands
Note	Not available = 128C3_068R_MIN.JPG

f. 68rhistoriated initial

The translator Laurent de Premierfait(?)

Cicero, Livre de viellesse, part 5

1490 (c.)

48C93(+2)49L12(D)49L171 61B2(LAURENT DE PREMIERFAIT)11

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Sequence no.	4732
Sequence (global)	8992
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 128 C 3
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 128 C 3
Image size (mm)	51x55
Type	manuscript illumination
Cataloguer's note	tgvgd gcdrd. B&BK 1985: 'Laurent de Premierfait(?)'
Scene order key	68r
Language of origin code	2 Southern Netherlands
Note	Not available = 128C3_068R_INIT.JPG

f. 94rmargin

Coat of arms of Adolf of Cleves

Cicero, Livre d'amistie, Prologue by the author

1490 (c.)

46A122(CLEVES, Adolf of)1

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Sequence no.	4733
Sequence (global)	8993
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 128 C 3
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 128 C 3
Type	manuscript illumination
Cataloguer's note	tgvgd gcdrd. Niet in B&BK 1985
Scene order key	94r
Language of origin code	2 Southern Netherlands
Note	Not available = 128C3_094R_RANDV.JPG

f. 117vfull-page miniature

Caius Laelius disputing with his sons-in-law Caius Fannius and Quintus Mucius Scaevola on friendship, in presence of Cicero

Cicero, Livre d'amistie, Prologue by the translator

1490 (c.)

49C4 98B(CICERO)5 98B(LAELIUS, C.) 98B(FANNIUS, C.)98B(SCAEVOLA, Q.M.)

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Sequence no.	4734
Sequence (global)	8994
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 128 C 3
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 128 C 3
Image size (mm)	210x121
Type	manuscript illumination
Cataloguer's note	tgvgd gcdrd. B&BK 1985: 'Fannius, Cicero, Mutius [sic] Scaevola en Laelius'
Scene order key	117v
Language of origin code	2 Southern Netherlands
Note	Not available = 128C3_117V_MIN.JPG