Bod-Inc: C-286
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Epistolae ad Brutum, et al.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a1v Salicetus, Bartholomaeus; Regius, Ludovicus: [Letter addressed to] Augustinus Maffeus. Incipit: ‘Ecce studiosis, litterarum cultor Augustine, uolumina epistolarum . . .’
a2r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistolae ad Marcum Brutum. Cic. Ad Brut. 6-7; 9; 11; 13-26 only.
b1r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistolae ad Quintum fratrem. Cic. Q. fr. 1; 2. 1-3; 2. 4 with 2. 6. 2-4; 2. 7; 2. 8. 1-2 with 2. 5; 2. 6. 1-2 with 2. 8. 3; 2. 9-16; 3.
c8r Cicero, Marcus Tullius [pseudo-]: Epistola ad Octavianum. [Cic.] Oct..
d6r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistolae ad Atticum. Cic. Att. 1-3; 4. 1-9; 4. 11-15; 4. 16. 1-5 with 4. 17. 3-5 with 4. 18; 4. 19. 1 with 4. 16. 6-9; 4. 17. 1-3 with 4. 19. 2; 5-8; 9. 1-8; 9. 8. C; 9. 8. B; 9. 8. A; 9. 9-11; 9. 11. A; 9. 12-13; 9. 13a; 9. 13. A; 9. 14-19; 10-16. 12. 1-16 all one, also 12. 29-53; 13.
r1r Cornelius Nepos: Vita Attici. Nep. Att.
r3v Laetus, Julius Pomponius: [Verse addressed to] Augustinus Maffeus. Incipit: ‘Quaeque erat altiloqui Ciceronis epistola Bruto | Missa aut ad Quinton(!), Attice siue tibi'; 5 elegiac distichs.
r3v Laetus, Julius Pomponius: [Note addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Simplicius scripsi quam rei dignitas requirebat . . .’
r3v Laetus, Julius Pomponius: [Note to the readers.] Incipit: ‘Lector ubi emerseris quid trierarcho impreceris propter salutem non habes. Haueto'.
r4r Regius, Ludovicus: [Letter addressed to] Augustinus Maffeus. Incipit: ‘[N]on te preterit, unice ac studiosissime Romanarum rerum . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: [Philippus Pincius], 12 June 1499. Folio.
Remarks: H 5218 records a date of 15 July.
Collation
Collation: a–q8 r4.
References
ISTC: ic00503000
GW: GW 6862;
Hain: HC *5217; H 5218;
Goff: Goff C‑503;
BMC: BMC V 499;
Proctor: Pr 5322;
Others: Sheppard 4409.
LCN: 14884470
Copies
Copy number: C-286(1)
Bound with:
1. Gaius Sallustius Crispus, Opera. [Venice: Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello, c.1497] (S‑034(2)).
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 321 × 227 × 33 mm.
Size of leaf: 312 × 205 mm.
Occasional early marginal notes. Pen-trials and scribbles by Bocher on r4v.
Provenance: Bocher (sixteenth century); inscription on r4v of item 2: ‘Bocher est dominus meus [ ] gardynat tanner massy porter allon [ ] Rawlynge [ ] Kingsmell [ ]'; some of those named may perhaps be identified with early sixteenth-century Cambridge scholars, mainly canon lawyers: Bocher, BCnL 1502-3 (Venn pt 1 I 172); John Tanner (†1510/11), BD (Venn pt 1 IV 199); William/John Massy, BCnL 1507-8/1514-15 (Venn pt 1 III 158-9); Porter, BCnL 1509-10 (Venn pt 1 III 383); William Allon, BCnL 1506-7 (Venn pt 1 I 20); Andrew Rawlynge, BD 1505-6 (Venn pt 1 III 424); Bocher owned both items; see the inscription ‘ffeminarum' on n1r of item 1 and on q4v and r3v of item 2. Nathaniel Crynes (1686-1745); inscription on a2r of item 1: ‘Liber Nath. Crynes'; his stamp on a3r of item 1; table of contents, listing both items, in Crynes's hand, inside front end leaf. Bequeathed in 1745.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N 3.24(2).
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