Bod-Inc: C-324
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
De officiis.
Analysis of Content
a1r Marsus, Petrus: [Letter addressed to] Cardinal Franciscus Gonzaga of Mantua. Incipit: ‘[C]ato ille censorius immo naturae opus mirabile . . .’ Explicit: munere fraudarentur
a1v [Marsus, Petrus]: ‘De summo bono et uia ad officium'. M. Dykmans, L'humanisme de Pierre Marso, Studi e Testi, 327 (Vatican City, 1988), 117-24.
a4r Marsus, Petrus: [Commentary on De officiis.] Incipit: ‘ “[Q]uamquam te, Marce fili”. In omni re septem circumstantiae requiruntur . . .’ Explicit: admotis calcaribus impellat See Dykmans 55-69, at 59 no. 1.
a4r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De officiis. Cic. Off.
y7v [Colophon.]
y8r Marsus, Petrus: ‘Andes Virgilii natale solum siluaque Petri Marsi', [addressed to] Federicus I Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua. Incipit: ‘[S]alue clara parens et tanti conscia partus | Vagitusque sacri tellus andina Maronis . . .’ See Dykmans 59 no. 3.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Baptista de Tortis, 12 Oct. 1481. Folio.
Remarks: Variant colophon known with mention of Franciscus de Madiis as joint printer (CR 1623; BMC V 321).
Collation
Collation: a–i K l–x8 y10.
References
ISTC: ic00597000
GW: GW 6950;
Hain: HC *5271 (I); CR 1623 (var.);
Goff: Goff C‑597;
BMC: BMC V 321 (var.);
Proctor: Pr 4607 = part of 4614;}
Others: BSB‑Ink C‑311; Sack, Freiburg, 1006; Sheppard 3820.
LCN: 14883184
Copies
Copy number: C-324(1)
Wanting the blank leaf a1.
Binding: Late seventeenth/early eighteenth-century blind-tooled calf; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 308 × 213 × 30 mm.
Size of leaf: 298 × 190 mm.
Marginal and interlinear notes and underlining in the text, in a number of fifteenth- to seventeenth-century(?) hands, an early hand providing interlinear English translations of individual words. On y8-9 a manuscript table of contents dated ‘28 februarii 1487'.
Some initials supplied in black ink.
Provenance: Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725); ‘C & P' on pastedown; sale, 22 Nov. 1727, lot 1594, for £0. 3. 0. Possibly part of the Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755) bequest of 1755; but not found in Notitia (1795); certainly acquired before c.1820, judging from its shelfmark.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N 2.27.
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