Details

Subjects:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Translations into German.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin -- Translations into German.
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Speeches.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

German.

Biography/History:

Member of the faculty at the University of Leipzig, Ernesti became extraordinary (ausserordentlicher) professor (i.e. without a chair) in the philosophy department in 1782, and tenured full (ordentlicher) professor of eloquence in 1802, a few months before his death. He is the author, among other works, of Cicero's Geist und Kunst (published in 3 volumes, 1799-1802), a collection of selected writings of Cicero in German translation.

Summary:

Selected speeches of Cicero as translated into German from the original Latin by Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti. The manuscript is believed to be in Ernesti's own hand, with many corrections that appear to be in the same hand. It is divided into 8 sections, each of which is subdivided into chapters. The materials covered in the 8 sections is as follows: 1. The 4 Catiline orations (In Catilinam), in chapters numbered 1-13, 1-13, 1-12, and 1-11, respectively; 2. Speech on behalf of Titus Annius Milo (Pro Milone), in chapters numbered 1-38; 3. Speech on behalf of Sextus Roscius of Ameria (Pro Sex. Roscio Ameriae), in chapters numbered 1-53; 4. Speech on behalf of the poet Aulus Licinius Archias (Pro Archia Poeta), in chapters numbered 1-12; 5. Speech in defense of the proposed Manilian law (Pro Lege Manilia), in chapters numbered 1-24; 6. Speech on behalf of Marcellus (Pro Marcello), in chapters numbered 1-11; 7. The orator (Ad M. Brutum Orator), in chapters numbered 21-71; and 8. Brutus, in chapters numbered 7-56. Section 8 begins, after a separate title page (f. 159r) and 3 blank leaves, with a paragraph that lacks a chapter heading, followed by the heading for chapter 7 (f. 163r); chapters 47-56 of this section have been renumbered in the margins as chapters 56-65, and the section ends abruptly with a heading for chapter 57 that is not followed by any text. A characteristic pen flourish underlining the last line of the text marks the end of all of the sections except for 8.

Contents:

1. f.1r-22v: Cicero's Rede [über] den Catilina [1793].
2. f.25r-47r: Cicero's Rede für den Milo [1793].
3. f.49r-81r: Cicero's Rede für den Roscius Amerinus [1794].
4. f.83r-90r: Cicero's Rede für den Poeten Archias [1795].
5. f.91r-104r: Cicero's Rede für das [den] manilisches Gesetz [Vorschlag] [1795].
6. f.107r-112v: Cicero's Rede für den M. Marcellus [1795].
7. f.115r-157r: Cicero's Redner [1796].
8. f.159r-203v: Cicero's Brutus [1797].

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, ii (newer paper) + 206 + ii (newer paper); modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 36-40 long lines, with the outer margins sometimes containing corrections or insertions.
Script: Written in a German cursive hand.
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in Leipzig from 1793 (f. 1r) to 1797 (f. 159r).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly part of the library of Ernst von Leutsch, professor of classics at the University of Göttingen, purchased by the University of Pennsylvania before 1891.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 91 (Ms. German 56).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1155

Contributor:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Leutsch, Ernst von, 1808-1887, former owner.

Related Work:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Speeches. German. Selections.

OCLC:

223914176