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tic00597000

Text-inc Id:
tic00597000
Bod-inc Id:
C-324
Headings:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius De officiis.
Analysis of content:
  1. a1r Marsus, Petrus: [Letter addressed to] Cardinal Franciscus Gonzaga of Mantua. Incipit: ‘[C]ato ille censorius immo naturae opus mirabile . . .’ Explicit: munere fraudarentur
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. a4r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De officiis. Cic. Off.
  5. y7v [Colophon.]
  6. 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:
Venice: Baptista de Tortis, 12 Oct. 1481. Folio. Variant colophon known with mention of Franciscus de Madiis as joint printer (CR 1623; BMC V 321).
Collation:
a–i K l–x8 y10.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ic00597000 GW 6950; HC *5271 (I); CR 1623 (var.); Goff C‑597; BMC V 321 (var.); Pr 4607 = part of 4614;} BSB‑Ink C‑311; Sack, Freiburg, 1006; Sheppard 3820. LCN: 14883184
Copies:
  1. C-324(1) Copy 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.