tic00665000

Text-inc Id:

tic00665000

Bod-inc Id:

C-235

Headings:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius De oratore (comm. Omnibonus Leonicenus), et al.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a1v Omnibonus Leonicenus: ‘Oratio de laudibus eloquentiae'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uantum admirationis habeat eloquentia, Vicentini ciues . . .’
3. a2v Omnibonus Leonicenus: ‘Praefatio'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uantum Ciceronis orator scriptis omnibus non dico . . .’
4. a3r Omnibonus Leonicenus: [Commentary on De oratore.] Incipit: ‘  “[C]ogitanti mihi saepenumero”. Quae in principiis librorum requiri solent . . .’
5. a3r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De oratore. Edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus. Cic. De Orat.
6. z4r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Orator. ‘De perfecto oratore'. Cic. Orat.
7. B1v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: [Letter addressed to] Gaius Trebatius. Cic. Fam. 7. 19.
8. B1v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Topica. Cic. Top.
9. B5r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Partitiones oratoriae. Cic. Part.
10. C4r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Brutus. ‘De claris orationibus'. Cic. Brut.
11. E5v Cicero, Quintus Tullius: De petitione consulatus. Cic. Comment. Pet.
12. F1v Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De optimo genere oratorum. Cic. Opt. Gen.
13. F2v [Note on the inclusion of Brunus's translation of Aeschines.] Incipit: ‘Ex dictis Ciceronis apertissime constat orationes Aeschinis et Demosthenis pro Ctesiphonte a Graeco in Latinum . . .’
14. F2v Aeschines: In Ctesiphontem. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uanti conatus parenter(!) viri Athenienses ad hoc iudicium . . .’
15. G4r Demosthenes: Pro Ctesiphonte. [Also known as De corona.] ‘Oratio in Aeschinem'. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. See C‑208. Lanzillotta lists this edition on 47 as 2(IV).
16. H7v Aeschines: [Oratio ad senatum populumque Atheniensem.] Incipit: ‘[E]go me ad rempublicam contuli tricesimotercio aetatis anno . . .’

Imprint:

[Nuremberg]: Anton Koberger, 26 Mar. 1497. Folio.

Collation:

a⁸ b–z A–G⁶ H⁸.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ic00665000 GW 6753; HC, Addenda *5111; Goff C‑665; BMC II 443; Pr 2114; BSB‑Ink C‑376; Oates 1045; Sack, Freiburg, 1022; Sheppard 1544. LCN: 14885325

Copies:

1. C-235(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf H8. Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf, decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner, and with gold-tooled spine. Size: 316 × 227 × 40 mm. Size of leaf: 303 × 202 mm. Copious early marginal notes in faded brown ink, now washed out, in a German hand. Provenance: Münster, Westphalia, Jesuits; very faded inscription on H7v: ‘Liber collegii Societatis Jesu Monasterii'. Purchased for £0. 18. 6; see Books Purchased (1855), 14. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 2.10.