De officiis
By: Marci tulii ciceronis
Contributors: Albertus de Ponte Rubea, scribe; Rosenthal, Bernard M., bookseller
Language: lat
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Ancient Ethics; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Work titles: De officiis
Notes: Ms.

Title from colophon (fol. 47r).

Collation: Paper, fol. ii (last page of text similar to Briquet, Mons 11656) + 46 + ii; 1-3¹⁰, 4¹⁰ (-3); horizontal catchwords to right of center.

Layout: Written in 41 lines, frame-colored, with marginal corrections.

Script: Written in crusive, with corrections and sporadic marginal notes in a contemporary secretary hand, one set of sporadic marginal notes in a Semi-Gothic cursive, and one in a humanist cursive.

Binding: [Original?] parchment wrapper inside modern binding.

Origin: Copied by Albertus de Ponte Rubea, probably in Fano Province, Italy in the 15th century. "[text] Completus in mane sa[ncti] Antonii de viena et inceptus die octavo p[resenti]s m[ensi]s ian[uari]i alb[er]ti de ponte rubea.  Qui scripsit scripta manus eius sit b[e]n[e]dicta." (fol. 47r).

Shelfmark: New York, Fordham University, Walsh Library, MS 02.

Latin.

Price in dollars and other notes on front pastedown in the hand of Bernard Rosenthal, antiquarian bookdealer (New York; San Francisco; Berkeley).

Description adapted from record in Digital Scriptorium prepared by M. Bruno: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/MS02_3
Table of contents: title: Fol. 1r-47r: "[text] Quamq[ua]m te marce filii annum iam audientem cratippum idque athenis habundare ... Vale ig[itur], mi Cicero, tibique persuade esse te quidem michi carissimum, sed multo fore cariorem, si talibus monumentis p[re]ceptisque letabere. Marci tulii ciceronis, de officiis liber tercius et ultimus explicit deo gratias am[en]."