Bod-Inc: C-277
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Epistolae ad familiares (comm. Hubertinus Clericus Crescentinas).
Analysis of Content
a1v Accursius Pisanus, Bonus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Turrianus. Incipit: ‘Cum omnes homines (ut stoicorum sententia est) . . .’
a1v Clericus Crescentinas, Hubertinus: [Letter addressed to] Bonus Accursius Pisanus. Incipit: ‘Cum iam multos et eosdem utiles libros, uir eruditissime Bone Accursi . . .’
a2r Clericus Crescentinas, Hubertinus: [Commentary on Epistolae ad familiares.] Incipit: ‘[H]uius uoluminis epistolas etsi omnes communi appellatione . . . “[E]go omni officio”. Sensus est ego omne officium meum aut . . .’
a3r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistolae ad familiares. Cic. Fam. 1-10; 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. 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. 16-27.
H7r [Colophon.]
H7v [Clericus Crescentinas, Hubertinus: Valedictory letter addressed to] Bonus Accursius Pisanus. Incipit: ‘Habes, doctissime atque optime Bone Accursi Pisane, opus longe maius atque huberius . . .’ Saxius 484.
H8r Clericus Crescentinas, Hubertinus: [Verse addressed to the book.] ‘Hubertinus Clericus Crescentinas librum suum alloquitur'. Incipit: ‘Vade, liber, nobis propere dimissus et acris | Inuidiae telis saepe petendus abi'; 23 elegiac distichs.
H8v Platinus, Petrus Antonius: [Verse dedicated to] Octavianus Vicomercatus. Incipit: ‘Ingeniis antiqua suis ne saecula tantum | Illustrata putes inclyta nostra uide'; 8 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Andreas Torresanus de Asula and Bartholomaeus de Blavis de Alexandria, 31 Jan. 1483/4. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–k8 l10 m mm n–t8 u10 x-z A–E8 F–H10.
References
ISTC: ic00524000
GW: GW 6838;
Hain: H *5190;
Goff: Goff C‑524;
BMC: BMC XII 22;
Proctor: Pr 4699;
Others: BSB‑Ink C‑335; Rhodes 551; Sheppard 3771-2.
LCN: 14840915, 14841004
Copies
Copy number: C-277(1)
Wanting the blank leaf H10.
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled paper; bound for Kloß.
Size: 296 × 206 × 51 mm.
Size of leaf: 292 × 191 mm.
Some early marginal and interlinear notes, mainly in the first gathering, extracting key words and providing synonyms. On a1r elegiac distichs, in an early hand ascribed to Ortwinus [Gratius?]: ‘Laudibus eternis toto celebraberis orbe | Eloquium Marci si Ciceronis amas | Item | Rhetoris eximii laudem si quaeris habere | Clarior aut cunct[is?] ora tenere virum'.
On a2r a ten-line initial ‘H' is supplied in red with blue decoration; red and mauve pen-work decoration; similar initials at the beginning of most books, often with pen-work in the area defined by the letter, with decoration in reserved white, red, blue, and/or green; other initials are supplied in red or blue or interlocked red and blue. Paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capital strokes in red. Some running headlines and book numbers are supplied in black ink.
Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label: sale (1835), lot 1187. Samuel Butler (1774-1839); sale, pt II, lot 697. Purchased for £0. 15. 0; see annotated sale catalogue, and the bill from Thomas Rodd; not found in Books Purchased (1840).
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 3.23.
Copy number: C-277(2)
Fragments, formerly used as pastedowns.
Leaves or portions of leaves b2-3, b4-5 (formerly in MS. Bodl. 711 = SC 2617), b6-7 (formerly in MS. Bodl. 244 = SC 2039), c1, 2, c7, 8 (formerly in MS. Bodl. 244), d4-5 (formerly MS. Bodl. 711), e1-3, 6-8 (possibly all formerly in MS. Bodl. 711), f1, 2, 7, 8 (formerly in MS. Bodl. 568 = SC 2008) and gatherings g (formerly in MS. Bodl. 370 = SC 2480), h (formerly in MS. Bodl. 203 = SC 1931), i (formerly in MS. Bodl. 215 = SC 2049), k (formerly in MS. Bodl. 204 = SC 1932), d3.6 (formerly in MS. Bodl. 711; doubtful).
Binding: Twentieth-century brown cloth.
Maximum fragment size: : 282 × 197 mm.
Note, on the recto of the front endleaf, by D. M. R[ogers], dated 5 Jan. 1953, identifying the fragments. According to notes in the manuscripts, these fragments were removed on 10 Feb. 1920.
Some paragraph marks are supplied in red; some capital strokes in red.
Provenance (of MSS. Bodl. 203, 204, 215, 244, 370, 568, 711); all manuscripts bound uniformly in sixteenth/seventeenth-century English calf over pasteboards. Presented by William Ballow (1573/4-1618) in 1604: see Macray 421.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Antiq. d.U.2.
SHELFMARK: Inc. d. I4.1484.1.
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