Marci Tulij Ciceronis Arpinatis [con]sulisq[ue] Romani ac oratoru[m] maximi ad M. Tuliu[m] Ciceronem filiu[m] suu[m] Officio[rum] liber incipit..
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Fust, Johannes,1400-1466,printer.
Schöffer, Peter,approximately 1425-approximately 1502,printer.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.Paradoxa.
MacCarthy Reagh, Justin,1744-1811,former owner.StEdNL
Steuart, David,1747-1824,former owner.StEdNL
Wier, Richard,-1792,binder.StEdNL
Horace.Carmina.Liber 4.7
Signet Library (Great Britain),former owner.StEdNL
[Mainz] : Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer,
4 February 1466.
Imprint from Goff.
Colophon: Presens Marci tulij clarissimu[m] opus. Johannes fust Mogu[n]tinus ciuis. no[n] atrame[n]to. plumali can[n]a nec[que] aerea. Sed arte quadam perpulcra. manu Petri de gernszhem pueri mei feliciter effeci finitum. Anno. M.cccc.lxvi. quarta die mensis februarij. [et]c.
Printed in black and red.
Marci Tulii Ciceronis paradoxa: pages [152-170].
Versus xii sapientu[m]: pages [171-174]. Among the contents [of the Versus XII sapientum] the epitaphs on Cicero displayed in the tenth cycle have received the most attention because they are our only source for the name of the man who buried the orator, his friend Lamia. Cf. F. Felgentreu's review of Das Symposium der XII Sapientes: Kommentar und Verfasserfrage in Bryn Mawr classical review 2002.12.25 (available on the WWW at ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2002/2002-12-25.html).
Manlio Torquato : Flaccus de vite humane breuitate ...: page [175].
Set up in close imitation of the 1465 edition, with the same types and arrangement--BM 15th cent.
Signatures: [a-l⁸].
Printed on vellum.
First leaf supplied in manuscript.
With three illuminated and coloured initials.
Goff
BM 15th cent.,
GW
ISTC
Hain
Pellechet
Polain
IDL
IBE
IGI
Madsen
Oates
Rhodes, Oxford Colleges,
Proctor
BSB-Ink
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Pegg, M. A. Incunables in the National Library of Scotland: accessions 1946-1966,
Number 2295 in the sale catalogue of MacCarthy Reagh. With the armorial bookplate of David Steuart Esq on front pastedown. Bought by the National Library from the Signet Library 1959.
18th-century red morocco with gilt border on front and back boards, gilt tooled spine compartments, gilt rolled turn-ins, gilt rolled edges and marbled endpapers. Possibly by Richard Wier in the 1770s for MacCarthy Reagh. Later addition of the gilt stamp of the Society of Writers to the Signet on front and back boards.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Ethics
Paradox
Illumination of books and manuscripts
Germany Mainz.