Bod-Inc: C-257
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Epistolae ad familiares.
Analysis of Content
[a2r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistolae ad familiares. Cic. Fam. 1-7; 8. 1; 8. 2. 1(pt) with 8. 9. 4-5; 8. 10-17; 9. 1-15; 8. 2. 1-2; 8. 3-5; 2. 9; 8. 6 – 8. 9. 3 with 9. 15. 5(pt); 9. 16-26; 10; 11. 1-26; 11. 28; 11. 27; 11. 29; 12; 13. 1-49; 2. 14; 13. 50-79; 14; 15. 1-6; 15. 9; 15. 7-8; 15. 11-21; 16. 5; 16. 7; 16. 1-4; 16. 6; 16. 8-9; 16. 11-12; 16. 10; 16. 15; 16. 14; 16. 13; 16. 16-27.
[o8r] [Verse colophon.] Incipit: ‘Hesperie quondam Germanus quosque libellos | Abstulit en plures ipse daturus adest'; 3 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Johannes de Spira, 1469. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a12 b10 c6 d–n10 o8].
References
ISTC: ic00505000
GW: GW 6801;
Hain: HC 5165;
Goff: Goff C‑505;
BMC: BMC V 153;
Proctor: Pr 4017;
Others: Sheppard 3187.
LCN: 14884428
Copies
Copy number: C-257(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [a1].
Binding: Nineteenth-century calf (c.1825), bound for the Bodleian Library; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers.
Size: 346 × 233 × 38 mm.
Size of leaf: 335 × 220 mm.
Copious early marginal notes mainly correcting the text; some marginal notes contain historical observations; on [d1v] a marginal note corrects the ascription of a letter to Cicero; the interlinear notes mainly give synonyms; Greek words supplied in the blank spaces.
On [a2r] a seven-line Venetian epigraphic initial ‘E' is supplied in gold, surrounded by reserved white vine-stems defined in maroon, green, and blue, decorated with white dots, all extending into a border further decorated with gold dots; in the lower margin is a green wreath, containing a blank shield on a blue ground. Similar initials at the beginning of each book. See Pächt and Alexander II, 109 no. pr. 57. Other epigraphic initials are supplied in red or blue; rubrics are supplied in red; running book numbers are supplied in black ink.
Provenance: A book-plate has been removed. Purchased for £10. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1825), 7.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 2.3.
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