Bod-Inc: C-278
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Epistolae ad familiares (comm. Hubertinus Clericus Crescentinas).
Analysis of Content
AA1r [Title-page.]
AA2r Merula, Georgius: [Letter addressed to] Dominicus Sanutus. Incipit: ‘[E]xponenti mihi superiore anno discipulis nostris . . .’ Explicit: relaturus accedemus. Vale
AA2r Merula, Georgius: ‘In epistolam ad Lentulum Spintherem enarratio'. Incipit: ‘[A]egyptiorum reges a Ptolemaeo Lagi filio . . .’ Explicit: magno studio sciuit
AA4v Politianus, Angelus: [Miscellaneorum centuria prima.] ‘Nonnulla loca epistolarum interpraetatio'. Maïer I 246-7. BSB‑Ink notes that these are extracts from chapters 25, 27, 28, 34, and 87.
AA4v 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 . . .’
a1r Phileticus, Martinus: [Commentary on Epistolae ad familiares.] Incipit: ‘ “[E]go omni officio” inquit. O Lentule, in te colendo atque obseruando . . .’
a1r 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.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: [Philippus Pincius], 20 Sept. 1491. Folio.
Remarks: GW assigns to Philippus Pincius, BMC and Sheppard to Bernardinus de Choris, de Cremona. According to BMC (note) the printer may be Jacobus de Paganinis (see Sheppard).
Collation
Collation: AA4 a–z & A–F8.
References
ISTC: ic00527800
GW: GW 6845;
Hain: H *5202;
BMC: BMC V 465;
Proctor: Pr 5694 = 5216A;
Others: BSB‑Ink C‑341; Sack, Freiburg, 993; Sheppard 4299.
LCN: 14840875
Copies
Copy number: C-278(1)
Wanting AA1 and the blank leaf F8.
Binding: Nineteenth-century calf; bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 328 × 220 × 43 mm.
Size of leaf: 318 × 203 mm.
Marginal notes, many apparently in the hand of Matteo Bino, mainly extracting key words and classifying the letters by genre; also pointing hands and underlining in the text in black ink.
Some initials are supplied in black ink.
Provenance: Matteo Bino (fl. 1551); inscription on F7v: ‘Omnes hæc epistolæ sunt lectæ a me Mattheo Bino anno 1551 perfeci die 18 Septemb[ris] 1551'. Francesco Maria Bino; signature on AA2r. Cetona, Tuscany, Franciscans, (sixteenth century); inscription on a1r: ‘Iste liber est ad usum fratrum commorantium in loco sancti Francisci apud Cetonium'. Purchased for £0. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1858), 24.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 2.8.
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