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Bod-Inc: C-235

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

De oratore (comm. Omnibonus Leonicenus), et al.

 

Analysis of Content

a1r [Title-page.]

a1v Omnibonus Leonicenus: ‘Oratio de laudibus eloquentiae'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uantum admirationis habeat eloquentia, Vicentini ciues . . .’

a2v Omnibonus Leonicenus: ‘Praefatio'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uantum Ciceronis orator scriptis omnibus non dico . . .’

a3r Omnibonus Leonicenus: [Commentary on De oratore.] Incipit: ‘  “[C]ogitanti mihi saepenumero”. Quae in principiis librorum requiri solent . . .’

a3r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De oratore. Edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus. Cic. De Orat.

z4r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Orator. ‘De perfecto oratore'. Cic. Orat.

B1v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: [Letter addressed to] Gaius Trebatius. Cic. Fam. 7. 19.

B1v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Topica. Cic. Top.

B5r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Partitiones oratoriae. Cic. Part.

C4r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Brutus. ‘De claris orationibus'. Cic. Brut.

E5v Cicero, Quintus Tullius: De petitione consulatus. Cic. Comment. Pet.

F1v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De optimo genere oratorum. Cic. Opt. Gen.

F2v [Note on the inclusion of Brunus's translation of Aeschines.] Incipit: ‘Ex dictis Ciceronis apertissime constat orationes Aeschinis et Demosthenis pro Ctesiphonte a Graeco in Latinum . . .’

F2v Aeschines: In Ctesiphontem. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uanti conatus parenter(!) viri Athenienses ad hoc iudicium . . .’

G4r Demosthenes: Pro Ctesiphonte. [Also known as De corona.] ‘Oratio in Aeschinem'. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. See C‑208. Lanzillotta lists this edition on 47 as 2(IV).

H7v Aeschines: [Oratio ad senatum populumque Atheniensem.] Incipit: ‘[E]go me ad rempublicam contuli tricesimotercio aetatis anno . . .’

Imprint

Imprint: [Nuremberg]: Anton Koberger, 26 Mar. 1497. Folio.

Collation

Collation: a8 b–z A–G6 H8.

References

ISTC: ic00665000

GW: GW 6753;

Hain: HC, Addenda *5111;

Goff: Goff C‑665;

BMC: BMC II 443;

Proctor: Pr 2114;

Others: BSB‑Ink C‑376; Oates 1045; Sack, Freiburg, 1022; Sheppard 1544.

LCN: 14885325

Copies

Copy number: C-235(1)

Wanting the blank leaf H8.

Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf, decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner, and with gold-tooled spine.

Size: 316 × 227 × 40 mm.

Size of leaf: 303 × 202 mm.

Copious early marginal notes in faded brown ink, now washed out, in a German hand.

Provenance: Münster, Westphalia, Jesuits; very faded inscription on H7v: ‘Liber collegii Societatis Jesu Monasterii'. Purchased for £0. 18. 6; see Books Purchased (1855), 14.

SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 2.10.


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