Manuscript Summary:This single-column paper manuscript is dated December 20, 1453 (f. 163r). The Liber officiorum was written by a main hand, which also added the red marginalia throughout the manuscript. A second hand is responsible for the interlinear glosses, other marginalia and red manicules. Chapter headings and lombards were kept in red throughout. The three parts of the work are each introduced by an initial containing a figure (f. 1r, 69r, 112v). Fol. 1r was additionally decorated with a frame of plant ornaments. The ex-libris on the front pastedown names Georg Alfred Kappeler (1839-1916, theologian and pastor) from Frauenfeld as the owner of the paper manuscript. The Kappeler family is proven to have lived in Frauenfeld since 1443. Due to their influential activities as governors, teachers and pastors, in the 19th century the Kappeler family was part of the educated middle class, to which Georg Alfred Kappeler also belonged. His legacy lives on today through several valuable manuscripts and prints still held by the Cantonal Library of Thurgau.(glo)
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Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 222
Paper · A + 163 + Z ff. · 26.2 x 20.2 cm · Italy? · 20 December 1453
Marcus Tullius Cicero: Liber officiorum
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Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 222, f. 1r – Marcus Tullius Cicero: Liber officiorum (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/kbt/y222)
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