Tullius De officiis : cum co[m]mentiis Petri Marsi eiusq[ue] recognitione & addit[i]onibus. Cuius epistolas quaeso q[uam]sedulo perlegas & in principio & in calce operis editas. Insunt pr[a]eterea paradoxa: De amicicia De senectute cum interpretibus suis. /
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Marso, Pietro,-1511.
Bonisoli, Ognibene,approximately 1412-1474.
Filetico, Martino,approximately 1430-approximately 1490.
Haemmerlin, Paul,editor.
Wolf, Georges,active 1489-1500,printer.
Kerver, Thielmann,-1522,printer.
Petit, Jean,active 1492-1530,bookseller.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.De officiis.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.Laelius de amicitia.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.Cato maior de senectute.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.Paradoxa.
Spendlover, Walter,former owner.StEdNL: Inc.282
Veitch, William D.,19th century,former owner.StEdNL: Inc.282
Royal High School (Edinburgh, Scotland),former owner.StEdNL: Inc.282*
Edinburgh City Libraries,donor.StEdNL: Inc.282*
Impressum Parrhisiis : Opera magistri Georgii VVolff Thielma[n]iq[ue] Keruer.,
anno d[omi]ni millesimo quadringe[n]tesimo nongesimo octauo. XVIII Kale[n]das Decembres. [14 November 1498]
Includes Cicero's De officiis with commentary by Paulus Marsus, Cicero's Laelius de amicitia with commentary by Omnibonus Leonicenus, Cicero's Cato maior sive de senectute with commentary by Martinus Phileticus and Cicero's Paradoxa with a partial commentary.
Imprint from colophon, on verso of leaf B6; imprint statement on t.p. reads: Venales reperiu[n]tur Parisius in uico sancti Iacobi ad intersignium leonis argentei.
Edited by Paulus Malleolus.
Jean Petit's printer's device on title and Wolf's printer's device on recto of leaf 2a6.
Signatures: a-z⁸ A⁸ B⁶ 2a⁶.
Verso of final leaf blank.
Text within red border, capitals coloured yellow.
With marginal annotations in early hand.
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
ISTC
Pell
Proctor
Polain
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Ink inscription at head of leaf a2: Walter Spendlouer. Armorial die-sinker bookplate of W. Douglas Veitch on front pastedown. Acquired by the Advocates Library 22 November 1911.
With ink inscription at head of recto of leaf a4 dated 17 December 1677. With Booklabel on front pastedown: Ex libris Sch. Reg. Edin. with shelfmark E8. With loosely inserted paper slip: Presented to Edinburgh Public Libraries by Royal High School 1968. Donated to the National Library 12 February 1973.
Blind tooled border and central rectangle with gilt rolled outer border on front and back boards, spine has four raised bands forming five blind and gilt tooled compartments, blind tooled board edges and turn-ins and marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Flyleaves bear watermark date 1816.
18th-century quarter leather with marbled paper over boards and spine with five raised bands forming six compartments, one with red leather gilt stamped title label.
Philosophy, Ancient
Conduct of life
France Paris.