Bod-Inc: C-208
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Scripta rhetorica, et al.
Analysis of Content
Part I.
[a1v] Minutianus, Alexander: [Preface, addressed to] Johannes Jacobus Trivultius. Botfield 223-5.
[a2r] Plutarchus: Vita Ciceronis. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. Incipit: ‘[T]ulliorum familia que et Ciceronis postea cognomentum . . .' For the authorship see Giustiniani, ‘Traduzioni latine', 38 no. 22(b); see also P‑390.
[b1r] [Table of contents.] ‘Ciceronis opera quae nobis benigniora fata reseruarunt in quatuor uolumina digesta impressimus, non eo ordine quem temporum ratio disponebat sed quem necessitas prescripsit, dum uetustiora exemplaria expectamus.’
[b2r] Cicero, Quintus Tullius: De petitione consulatus. Cic. Comment. Pet.
A1r Cicero, Marcus Tullius [pseudo-]: Rhetorica ad C. Herennium. Rhet. Her.
C5r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De inventione. ‘De arte rhetorica'. Cic. Inv.
F1v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De oratore. Cic. De Orat.
K6v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Orator. ‘De perfecto oratore ad Marcum Brutum'. Cic. Orat.
M2r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Brutus. ‘De claris oratoribus qui dicitur Brutus'. Cic. Brut.
O1r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Topica. Cic. Top.
O5r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Partitiones oratoriae. Cic. Part.
P3v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De optimo genere oratorum. Cic. Opt. Gen.
P4v Aeschines: In Ctesiphontem. ‘Contra Ctesiphontem de Demosthenis coronatione oratio'. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uanti conatus parentur uiri Athenienses ad hoc iudicium . . .’
Q5v Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: ‘Argumentum Leonardi Aretini in Defensionem Demosthenis'. Incipit: ‘Aduersus Philippum Macedoniae regem Graecie dominatum sibi uindicantem . . .’
Q6r Demosthenes: Pro Ctesiphonte [Also known as De corona.] ‘Demosthenis Defensio aduersus Aeschinem pro Cthesiphonte'. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. Maria Accame Lanzillotta, Leonardo Bruni traduttore di Demostene, La ‘Pro Ctesiphonte’, Pubblicazioni dell'istituto di filologia classica e medievale, 96 (Genoa, 1986), 100-79, with ‘Argumentum I' beginning imperfectly. On the translation see Lanzillotta 13-24; this edition not listed by Lanzillotta.
R9r Aeschines [pseudo-]: [Epistola ad senatum populumque Atheniensem.] ‘Senatui populoque Atheniensi salutem Aeschines dicit'. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. Incipit: ‘[E]go me ad rempublicam contuli trigesimotertio aetatis anno . . .’ A translation of Aescinis quae feruntur epistolae, ed. E. Drerup (Leipzig, 1904), epistola 12.
R9v Victorinus, Gaius Marius Fabius: [Commentary on De inventione.] Karl Halm, Rhetores Latini Minores (Leipzig, 1863), 152-310. On the commentary see Pierre Hadot, Marius Victorinus: recherches sur sa vie et ses œuvres (Paris, 1971), 73-101. The authorship of the part of the commentary printed by Halm on 305-10 is uncertain.
Y7v [First colophon.]
Part II.
2a1r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro lege Manilia. ‘Pro lege Manilia siue de imperatore diligendo.’ Cic. Man.
2a5r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Milone. Cic. Mil.
2B3r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Plancio. ‘Pro Gn. Plantio ad iudices oratio'. Cic. Planc.
2C1v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Sulla. Cic. Sul.
2C7r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De haruspicum responso. Cic. Har.
d3v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Murena. Cic. Mur.
e2r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Roscio Amerino. Cic. S. Rosc.
f2r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Balbo. Cic. Balb.
f6r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Sestio. Cic. Sest.
g6r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De domo sua. Cic. Dom.
h7r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Quinctio. Cic. Quinct.; see also Cicero, Pro Quinctio, ed. M. D. Reeve (Stuttgart, 1992), p. xliv.
i4r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Flacco. Cic. Flac.
k2r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Cluentio. Cic. Clu.
l7r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Fonteio. ‘Orationis pro Fonteio fragmentum'. Cic. Font.
m1v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Caecina. Cic. Caec.
m7v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Rabirio Postumo. Cic. Rab. Post.
n2r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Rabirio perduellionis reo. ‘Pro C. Rabirio perduellione ad Quirites'. Cic. Rab. perd.
n4r [Note on the imperfection of the manuscript used for the edition.] ‘Deest finis et principium alterius quod e uetustissimo exemplari unde haec descripta sunt duae charte abscisae sunt'.
n4r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Roscio comoedo. Cic. Q. Rosc.
n6v [Note on the text wanting at the end of the oration.] ‘In exemplari etiam quod ex Germania Pogius aduexit similiter finis desiderabatur'.
n6v [Note about the beginning of the De lege agraria I.] ‘Huius orationis principium de lege agraria contra P. Rullum non exstat. Duo enim folia ex uetustissimo codice abscisa fuisse librarii admonitum reliquerunt in marginibus uetustissimorum exemplorum quae in consultatione huius nostrae editionis adhibuimus'.
n7r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De lege agraria 1-3. Cic. Agr.
o7v [Note on the imperfection of the text.] ‘Ex Asconio Pediano apparet huic orationi in Pisonem principium deesse'.
o7v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: In Pisonem. Cic. Pis.
p6r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: In Catilinam 1-4. Cic. Catil.
q6r Sallustius Crispus, Gaius [pseudo-]: In Ciceronem. [Sal.] Cic. On the textual tradition of this and the following item, see L. D. R[eynolds], ‘Appendix Sallustiana', Texts and Transmission, 350-2.
q6v Cicero, Marcus Tullius [pseudo-]: In Sallustium. [Cic.] Sal.
q7v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Archia. Cic. Arch.
r1v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: In Vatinium. Cic. Vat. Omitting the last sentence: ‘dixerisne in eum testimonium . . . fieri debuisse.’
r4r Cicero, Marcus Tullius [pseudo-]: Oratio pridie quam in exilium iret. [Cic.] Exil.
r6r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Oratio post reditum ad populum. ‘Qua populo gratias egit de reditu suo'. Cic. Red. pop.
r7v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Oratio post reditum in senatu habitu. ‘Qua senatui gratias egit post reditum suum'. Cic. Red. sen.
s2r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Caelio. Cic. Cael.
s7v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De provinciis consularibus. Cic. Prov.
t2v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro rege Deiotaro. Cic. Deiot.
t5r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Marcello. Cic. Marc.
t6v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Ligario. Cic. Lig.
t8v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Divinatio in Caecilium. ‘Divinatio in C. Verrem'. Cic. Div. Caec.
u4r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: In Verrem 1-5. Cic. Ver. Verr. 2. 2 here entitled Verr. 3, Verr. 3 entitled Verr. 4, etc.
bb1v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Orationes Philippicae 1-14. Cic. Phil. Phil. 7 wanting last sentence, ‘Quibus de rebus refers P. Servilio adsentior'.
ee10v [Second colophon.]
ee10v [Table of contents for part II.]
Part III.
AA1r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistolae ad familiares. Cic. Fam. 1-7; 8. 1; 8. 9. 4-5; 8. 10-17; 8.2 – 8. 9. 1-3; 9-10; 11. 1-26; 11. 28; 11. 27; 12-14; 15. 1-6; 15. 9; 15. 7-8; 15. 10-21; 16. 5; 16. 7; 16. 1-4; 16. 6; 16. 8-9; 16. 11-12; 16. 10; 16. 15; 16. 14; 16. 13; 16. 16-26.
LL1r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistolae ad Marcum Brutum. Cic. Ad Brut. 6-26 only.
LL6r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistolae ad Quintum fratrem. Cic. Q. fr. 1; 2. 1-4; 2. 6. 2 – 2. 7; 2. 8. 1-2; 2. 5–2. 6. 2; 2. 8. 3; 2. 9–16; 3.
NN1v Cicero, Marcus Tullius [pseudo-]: Epistola ad Octavianum. [Cic.] Oct.
NN2r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistolae ad Atticum. Cic. Att. 1–4. 1-9; 4. 11–16. 5; 4. 17. 3-5; 4. 18; 4. 19. 1; 4. 16. 6-9; 4. 17. 1-3; 4. 19. 2; 5-8; 9. 1-8; 9. 7. C; 9. 7. B; 9. 7. A; 9. 9; 9. 10; 9. 11; 9. 11. A; 9. 12-13; 9. 13. A; 10-16.
YY8r Cornelius Nepos: Vita Attici. Nep. Att.
Part IV.
3a1r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: ‘Academicarum quaestiones liber primus qui primus(!) falso inscribebatur pars libelli Ciceronis de philosophia.’ Academica. Cic. Ac.
3b6v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De legibus. Cic. Leg.
4a2r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De officiis. Cic. Off.
3c8r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De senectute. Cic. Sen.
2d5r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De amicitia. ‘De amicitia liber inscriptus Laelius'. Cic. Amic.
2e3r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: ‘Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro sexto De republica'. Cic. Rep. 6. 9-26.
2e4r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: ‘Paradoxa septem ad M. Brutum'. Paradoxa stoicorum. Cic. Parad.
2e7r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De finibus bonorum et malorum. Cic. Fin.
2i4r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Tusculanae disputationes. ‘Tusculanarum quaestionum liber primus [–quintus]'. Cic. Tusc.
2n1v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De natura deorum. Cic. N.D.
2p7v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De divinatione. Cic. Div.
2r8r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De fato. Cic. Fat.
2ſ3r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Timaeus. ‘De uniuersitate liber'. Cic. Tim.
2ſ6r Aratus: ‘M. Tulii(!) Ciceronis fragmentum Arati Phaenomenon'. Phaenomena. Translated by Marcus Tullius Cicero. Cic. Arat.
Imprint
Imprint: Milan: Guillermus Le Signerre, for Alexander Minutianus, 1498-9. Folio.
Remarks: The parts are dated: (I) 1498; (II) 23 Nov. 1498; (III and IV) [undated]; (Preface) [after 15 Oct. 1499]
Collation
Collation: Part I: Scripta rhetorica: [a b6]; A–Q8 R10 S–Y8; part II: Orationes: a B–C d–z & [con] [rum] aa–dd8 ee10; part III: Epistolae: AA–II8 KK6 LL–XX8 YY10; part IV: Scripta philosophica: a–c a–ſ8.
Remarks: Gathering [b] of the introductory material is numbered but not signed.
References
ISTC: ic00498000
GW: GW 6708;
Hain: HCR 5056 (incl. 5230);
Goff: Goff C‑498;
BMC: BMC VI 790;
Proctor: Pr 6072;
Others: BSB‑Ink C‑377; Oates 2323; Rhodes 545; Sheppard 5032.
LCN: 14886137
Copies
Copy number: C-208(1)
Wanting [a1] and the blank leaf AA1.
Bound in four volumes. The date in the colophon in part II has been altered to read 1499. Leaves K6, L1,2 a3 repaired.
Binding: Eighteenth-century English gold-tooled diced russia; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: Part I: 422 × 292 × 42 mm; part II: 422 × 292 × 53 mm; part III: 422 × 295 × 42 mm; part IV: 422 × 298 × 40mm.
Size of leaf: 406 × 272 mm.
Early marginal annotations, mainly extracting key words; now mostly faded or washed out.
Provenance: ‘Collat. & perfect Jan. 8 1724/25', followed by erasure. Not in Fysher, Catalogus. Acquired before 1795; see Notitia (1795), 30.
SHELFMARK: Auct. L 1.2-5.
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