The Earliest Known Classical Latin Piece Written on Paper (Circa 1225)

An Introduction to a commentary on Cicero, De amicitia (On Friendship) preserved in the Bodleian Library (Ms. Hatton 112, fols. 58-78), written in a hand that might be French or English in the early thirteenth century, after a collection of medical and astronomical treatises, is "the earliest known example of a Latin classical piece written on paper" (Hunt, R.W. The Survival of Ancient Literature, Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1975, no. 133).