Details

Subject(s)

• Old age—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Friendship—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Stoics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin—Italy [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Medieval—Italy—Naples [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Medieval—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Former owner

Kane, Grenville, 1854-1943 [Browse]

Bookseller

Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Kane MS. 28. [Browse]

Contains

• Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cato maior de senectute. [Browse]
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Laelius de amicitia. [Browse]
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Paradoxa. [Browse]

Notes

• Script: Humanistica antiqua.
• Decoration: A full border on fol. 1r, blue leaves with pink or blue flower petals, and pen-decorated small gold ovals, grouped in threes as flowers or foliage, with heraldic shield at foot. The three works of Cicero each open with a 5-line initial, pink on gold ground, with floriate blue and green decoration, fols. 1r, 29r, 59r. Minor divisions and the six Paradoxae open with similar 3- or 4-line pink or blue initials on fols. 2r, 60r, 62v, 63v, 66r, 67v, 70v.

Binding note

England, late 18th century. Diced Russia leather, blind tooled rectangle with floral tooling along the interior perimeter, framed double gilt line at edges; sewn on 5 bands. Spine title: “tull: de senect & amicit: ms.”

Provenance

Kane Ms. 28 is of unknown early provenance. A.C. de la Mare suggested it was produced in Milan around 1450. 41. The manuscript came into the possession of the London and New York antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich (1865-1930). Grenville Kane (1854-1943), of Tuxedo Park, N.Y., acquired the manuscript in 1931, according to a dated note in pencil on the front pastedown. Princeton University Library acquired the manuscript from Kane's heirs in February1946.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, page 64-66.

Cite as

Kane MS. 28, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other title(s)

• Laelius de amicitia
• Paradoxa Stoicorum

OCLC

1340266074

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