Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 409: Cicero (M. Tullius Cicero), De finibus bonorum et malorum

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Title:

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 409: Cicero (M. Tullius Cicero), De finibus bonorum et malorum

Alternate Title:

M. T. Cicero de Finibus

Language:

Latin

Extent:

ff. 84

Dimensions:

205 Height (mm) and 139 Width (mm)

Approximate Date:

[ca. 1400 - 1499]

Provenance:

At top of f. 1r in what seems an Italian hand is a press-mark L. 8.

Table of contents:

De finibus bonorum et malorum

Description:

CCCC MS 409 contains a copy of De finibus bonorum et malorum of M. Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.). This copy of De finibus, Cicero's critique of Epicureanism, Stoicism, and the 'Academy' of Antiochus of Ascalon, was produced in Italy in the fifteenth century and is a good example of Italian humanist script. It was probably the script as much as the contents that interested Parker.