Bod-Inc: C-287
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Scripta philosophica.
Analysis of Content
Part I.
[1a2r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De natura deorum. Cic. N.D.
[1e10r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De divinatione. Cic. Div.
[2a2r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De officiis. Cic. Off.
[2d7r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Paradoxa stoicorum. Cic. Parad.
[2f3r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De amicitia. Cic. Amic.
[2g5r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De senectute. Cic. Sen.
[2h6r] [First colophon.]
[2h6v] Basilius [pseudo-; Euphorbius: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese I/2, no. 603. See Walther, Initia, 7951.
[2h6v] Asmenius [pseudo-; Julianus: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 604. See Walther, Initia, 3361.
[2h6v] Lyomannus [pseudo-; Hilasius: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 605.
[2h6v] Eusorbius [pseudo-; Palladius: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 606.
[2h6v] Julianus [pseudo-; Asclepiades: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 607.
[2h7r] Hilasius [pseudo-; Eustherius: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 608.
[2h7r] Palladius [pseudo-; Pompilianus: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 609.
[2h7r] Asclepias [pseudo-; Maximinus: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 610.
[2h7r] Eustenius [pseudo-; Vitalis: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 611.
[2h7r] Pompelianus [pseudo-; Basilius: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 612.
[2h7r] Maximus (Maximinus) [pseudo-; Asmenius: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 613.
[2h7v] Vitalis [pseudo-; Vomanius: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 614.
[2h7v] Apollonius: [Epitaph for Cicero] ‘secundum Plutarchum'. Incipit: ‘Te nempe, Cicero, et laudo et admiror . . .’ Explicit: per te Romam accessisse; not found in Riese
[2h7v] Martialis, [Marcus Valerius: Epigrammata.] Mart. 5. 69.
[2h7v] Catullus: [Carmina.] Catul. 49.
[2h7v] Silius Italicus: [Punica.] Sil. 8. 404-11.
[2h8r] Plinius [Secundus, Gaius]: Historia naturalis. Plin. Nat. 31. 8.
[2h8r] [Note concerning Borso d'Este's elevation to the dukedom of Ferrara in 1471.] Incipit: ‘Sanctissimi uero d. n. d. Pauli II Veneti Pont. Max. anno septimo quo anno in die facto Pasche, illustrissimus uir Borsius Estensis prima insignia ducatus Ferrariensis . . .’
Part II.
[3a2r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Tusculanae disputationes. Cic. Tusc.
[4a2r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De finibus bonorum et malorum. Cic. Fin.
[5a1r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De fato. Cic. Fat.
[5a7v] Cicero, Quintus Tullius: Commentariolum petitionis. ‘De petitione consulatus'. Cic. Comment. Pet.
[5b5v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Academica I. ‘Pars libelli Ciceronis de philosophia'. Cic. Ac.
[5c3r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Timaeus. ‘De essentia mundi siue in Timeo Platonis liber'. Cic. Tim.
[5d1r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Academica II. ‘Academicarum questionum siue Hortensii Liber'. Cic. Ac.
[5f4v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De legibus. Cic. Leg.; see also Peter Lebrecht Schmidt, Die Überlieferung von Ciceros Schrift ‘De legibus' in Mittelalter und Renaissance, Studia et testimonia antiqua, 10 (Munich, 1974), 391-3.
[3h10r] [Note.] Incipit: ‘Huc usque in exemplaribus repperi cetera interierunt, si deus uoluerit ut compareant, apponentur huic loco suo tempore'.
[3h10r] [Verse colophon, addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Aspicis, illustris lector, quicunque libellos | Si cupis artificum nomina nosse, lege'; 4 elegiac distichs. See Walther, Initia, 1610.
Imprint
Imprint: Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 1471. Folio.
Remarks: In two parts, dated: (I) 27 Apr. 1471; (II) 20 Sept. 1471.
Collation
Collation: Part I: (i) De natura deorum. De divinatione: [a–h10 i8]; (ii) De officiis, etc.: [2a–h10]; part II: (i) Tusculanae disputationes: [3a–e10 f g8]; (ii) De finibus: [4a–e10 f g8]; (iii) De fato, etc.: [5a–c8 d–h10].
References
ISTC: ic00558000
GW: GW 6883;
Hain: H *5231;
Goff: Goff C‑558;
BMC: BMC IV 13, 14;
Proctor: Pr 3320;
Others: BSB‑Ink C‑354; Rhodes 562; Sheppard 2632-4.
LCN: 14883284, 14883316
Copies
Copy number: C-287(1)
Wanting the whole of GW part I(ii) (De officiis, etc.), and the blank leaves [1 a1], [3 a1], and [4 a1].
Bound in the following order: parts II(i), II(ii), I(i), II(iii). Leaf [i8] misbound after [1 b10], [3 a10] misbound after [3 b10]. Gatherings [5 a–b] misbound before gathering [1 c]. Leaves in gatherings [3 a–b] repaired in inner margin.
Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled green morocco, bound for MacCarthy Reagh; see coronet tool on turn-ins; marbled pastedowns; gilt-edged leaves; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 273 × 200 × 67 mm.
Size of leaf: 262 × 180 mm.
Early marginal notes and underlining in red ink. Note about the purchase and make-up of the book in red ink on verso of front endleaf, perhaps by an unidentified member of the Bodleian staff.
Provenance: Dornburg, Thuringia, Franciscan Recollects; partly cancelled and cropped inscription on [3 a2r]: ‘Dornebourg Fratrum Minorum Recollect. [ ]'. Justin, comte MacCarthy Reagh (1744-1811); inscription on verso of front endleaf: ‘Collationné, complet. C Mc.' (erased); sale catalogue (1815), I, no. 2284; note on verso of front endleaf (see above): ‘This volume was purchased at Mac-Carthy's sale at Paris in 1817 . . .’ Purchased for £5. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1817), 3.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N 2.31.
Copy number: C-287(2)
Gatherings [3 a] and [1 a] only, bound in that order.
Wanting the blank leaf [1 a1].
Binding: Calf, c.1700, with gold-tooled spine and oval library stamp in gold, largely obliterated.
Size: 315 × 231 × 41 mm.
Size of leaf: 305 × 206 mm.
Initials supplied in red or interlocked blue and red. Paragraph marks supplied in red. Underlining and capital strokes in red.
Provenance: De Parc, Brabant, Premonstratensian convent, S. Johannes Evangelista; modern pencil note on pastedown: ‘olim Bibliothecæ Parc Lovaniensis'; shelfmark(?) on pastedown ‘H.iv'. Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853); sale, (1830), lot 422. Purchased at the Renouard sale for £3. 13. 6: Books Purchased (1830), 6.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.70.
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