Bod-Inc: C-238
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Orationes.
Analysis of Content
Volume 1.
[a1r] [Bussis], Johannes Andreas [de: Letter addressed to] Paulus II, Pont. Max. Botfield 116-31; Bussi 57-69.
[a6r] [Table of contents.]
[b2r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De lege Manilia. ‘Pro lege Manilia siue de laudibus Cn. Pompeii Magni siue de imperatore deligendo'.’ Cic. Man.
[b7v] [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]: Pro Milone. Cic. Mil.
[c6r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Plancio. ‘Pro Gn. Plantio ad iudices oratio'.’ Cic. Planc.
[d5v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Sulla. Cic. Sul.
[e1r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De haruspicum responso. Cic. Har.
[e7r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Murena. Cic. Mur.
[f6v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino. Cic. S. Rosc.
[g7r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Balbo. Cic. Balb.
[h3r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Sestio. Cic. Sest.
[i3v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De domo sua. Cic. Dom.
[k6v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Quinctio. Cic. Quinct.; see also Cicero, Pro Quinctio, ed. Reeve, p. xliv.
[l3v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Flacco. Cic. Flac.
[m2v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Cluentio. Cic. Clu.
[n10r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Fonteio. Cic. Font.
[o3v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Caecina. Cic. Caec.
[p2r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Rabirio Postumo. Cic. Rab. Post.
[p5v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Rabirio perduellionis reo. ‘Pro C. Rabirio perduellione ad Quirites oratio'.’ Cic. Rab. perd.
[p8r] [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]: Pro Roscio comoedo. Cic. Q. Rosc.
[q1v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De lege agraria 1-3. Cic. Agr.
[r3v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: In Pisonem. Cic. Pis.
[s4v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: In Catilinam 1-4. ‘Inuectiuarum in L. Catilinam liber primus [–ultimus]'.’ Cic. Catil.
[t5r] Sallustius Crispus, Gaius [pseudo-]: In Ciceronem. [Sal.] Cic.
[t5v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius [pseudo-]: In Sallustium. [Cic.] Sal.
[t7r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Archia. Cic. Arch.
[v1v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: In Vatinium. Cic. Vat. Omitting the last sentence: ‘dixerisne in eum testimonium . . . fieri debuisse.’
[v5v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius [pseudo-]: Oratio pridie quam in exilium iret. [Cic.] Exil.
[v8r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Post reditum ad populum. ‘Qua populo gratias agit de reditu suo oratio'.’ Cic. Red. pop.
[v10v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Post reditum in senatu. ‘Qua senatui gratias agit post reditum suum oratio'.’ Cic. Red. sen.
[x4r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Caelio. Cic. Cael.
Volume 2.
[y1r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De provinciis consularibus. Cic. Prov.
[y5r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro rege Deiotaro. Cic. Deiot.
[y8v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Marcello. Cic. Marc.
[z1r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Ligario. Cic. Lig.
[z4r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Divinatio in Q. Caecilium. ‘Accusationum in C. Verrem liber I'.’ Cic. Div. Caec.
[z8v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: In Verrem 1, 2. 1-5. [Here entitled In Verrem 2-7.] Cic. Ver.
[K1r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Orationes Philippicae 1-14. Cic. Phil.
[O11r] [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Aspicis illustris lector quicunque libellos | Si cupis artificum nomina nosce(i.e.nosse) lege'; 4 elegiac distichs. See Walther, Initia, 1610.
Imprint
Imprint: Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, [between May and July] 1471. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a6 b c10 d12 e–q10 r8 s10 t8 u-z A–F10 G8 H–L10.8 M8 N10 O12].
References
ISTC: ic00541000
GW: GW 6761;
Hain: HR 5121;
Goff: Goff C‑541;
BMC: BMC IV 13, XII 1;
Proctor: Pr 3318;
Others: Rhodes 555; Sheppard 2635.
LCN: 14840845
Copies
Copy number: C-238(1)
Wanting the blank leaves [b1] and [O12].
Bound in two volumes. Leaf [a1] mounted, [O11] backed. [p3] appears to have been supplied from a smaller copy.
Binding: Eighteenth-century half calf with Buntpapier boards and gold-tooled spine; possibly Italian; see printed waste visible in the boards of both volumes.
Size: Vol. 1: 410 × 302 × 56 mm; vol. 2: 410 × 302 × 42mm.
Size of leaf: 400 × 285 mm.
Some marginal notes; in the Pro Archia in an early hand, extracting key words; in the In Vatinium in a seventeenth-century hand providing lexicographical information.
Occasional initials are supplied in black ink. Continuous manuscript foliation in black ink in both volumes.
Provenance: Luigi Serra, 4th Duca di Cassano (1747-1825); see Catalogo, 13. George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834); sale (1821), lot 80; purchased in 1821 for £2. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1821), 4, and the annotated sale catalogue.
SHELFMARK: Auct. L 1.12, 13.
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