tic00558000

Text-inc Id:

tic00558000

Bod-inc Id:

C-287

Headings:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius Scripta philosophica.

Analysis of content:

1. Part I.
2. [1a2r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De natura deorum. Cic. N.D.
3. [1e10r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De divinatione. Cic. Div.
4. [2a2r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De officiis. Cic. Off.
5. [2d7r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Paradoxa stoicorum. Cic. Parad.
6. [2f3r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De amicitia. Cic. Amic.
7. [2g5r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De senectute. Cic. Sen.
8. [2h6r] [First colophon.]
9. [2h6v] Basilius [pseudo-; Euphorbius: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese I/2, no. 603. See Walther, Initia, 7951.
10. [2h6v] Asmenius [pseudo-; Julianus: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 604. See Walther, Initia, 3361.
11. [2h6v] Lyomannus [pseudo-; Hilasius: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 605.
12. [2h6v] Eusorbius [pseudo-; Palladius: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 606.
13. [2h6v] Julianus [pseudo-; Asclepiades: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 607.
14. [2h7r] Hilasius [pseudo-; Eustherius: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 608.
15. [2h7r] Palladius [pseudo-; Pompilianus: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 609.
16. [2h7r] Asclepias [pseudo-; Maximinus: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 610.
17. [2h7r] Eustenius [pseudo-; Vitalis: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 611.
18. [2h7r] Pompelianus [pseudo-; Basilius: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 612.
19. [2h7r] Maximus (Maximinus) [pseudo-; Asmenius: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 613.
20. [2h7v] Vitalis [pseudo-; Vomanius: Epitaph for Cicero.] Riese no. 614.
21. [2h7v] Apollonius: [Epitaph for Cicero] ‘secundum Plutarchum'. Incipit: ‘Te nempe, Cicero, et laudo et admiror . . .’ Explicit: per te Romam accessisse; not found in Riese
22. [2h7v] Martialis, [Marcus Valerius: Epigrammata.] Mart. 5. 69.
23. [2h7v] Catullus: [Carmina.] Catul. 49.
24. [2h7v] Silius Italicus: [Punica.] Sil. 8. 404-11.
25. [2h8r] Plinius [Secundus, Gaius]: Historia naturalis. Plin. Nat. 31. 8.
26. [2h8r] [Note concerning Borso d'Este's elevation to the dukedom of Ferrara in 1471.] Incipit: ‘Sanctissimi uero d. n. d. Pauli II Veneti Pont. Max. anno septimo quo anno in die facto Pasche, illustrissimus uir Borsius Estensis prima insignia ducatus Ferrariensis . . .’
27. Part II.
28. [3a2r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Tusculanae disputationes. Cic. Tusc.
29. [4a2r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De finibus bonorum et malorum. Cic. Fin.
30. [5a1r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De fato. Cic. Fat.
31. [5a7v] Cicero, Quintus Tullius: Commentariolum petitionis. ‘De petitione consulatus'. Cic. Comment. Pet.
32. [5b5v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Academica I. ‘Pars libelli Ciceronis de philosophia'. Cic. Ac.
33. [5c3r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Timaeus. ‘De essentia mundi siue in Timeo Platonis liber'. Cic. Tim.
34. [5d1r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Academica II. ‘Academicarum questionum siue Hortensii Liber'. Cic. Ac.
35. [5f4v] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De legibus. Cic. Leg.; see also Peter Lebrecht Schmidt, Die Überlieferung von Ciceros Schrift ‘De legibus' in Mittelalter und Renaissance, Studia et testimonia antiqua, 10 (Munich, 1974), 391-3.
36. [3h10r] [Note.] Incipit: ‘Huc usque in exemplaribus repperi cetera interierunt, si deus uoluerit ut compareant, apponentur huic loco suo tempore'.
37. [3h10r] [Verse colophon, addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Aspicis, illustris lector, quicunque libellos | Si cupis artificum nomina nosse, lege'; 4 elegiac distichs. See Walther, Initia, 1610.

Imprint:

Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 1471. Folio. In two parts, dated: (I) 27 Apr. 1471; (II) 20 Sept. 1471.

Collation:

Part I: (i) De natura deorum. De divinatione: [a–h¹⁰ i⁸]; (ii) De officiis, etc.: [²a–h¹⁰]; part II: (i) Tusculanae disputationes: [³a–e¹⁰ f g⁸]; (ii) De finibus: [⁴a–e¹⁰ f g⁸]; (iii) De fato, etc.: [⁵a–c⁸ d–h¹⁰].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ic00558000 GW 6883; H *5231; Goff C‑558; BMC IV 13, 14; Pr 3320; BSB‑Ink C‑354; Rhodes 562; Sheppard 2632-4. LCN: 14883284, 14883316

Copies:

1. C-287(1) First copy Wanting the whole of GW part I(ii) (De officiis, etc.), and the blank leaves [¹ a1], [³ a1], and [⁴ a1]. Bound in the following order: parts II(i), II(ii), I(i), II(iii). Leaf [i8] misbound after [¹ b10], [³ a10] misbound after [³ b10]. Gatherings [⁵ a–b] misbound before gathering [¹ c]. Leaves in gatherings [³ a–b] repaired in inner margin. Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled green morocco, bound for MacCarthy Reagh; see coronet tool on turn-ins; marbled pastedowns; gilt-edged leaves; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 273 × 200 × 67 mm. Size of leaf: 262 × 180 mm. Early marginal notes and underlining in red ink. Note about the purchase and make-up of the book in red ink on verso of front endleaf, perhaps by an unidentified member of the Bodleian staff. Provenance: Dornburg, Thuringia, Franciscan Recollects; partly cancelled and cropped inscription on [³ a2r]: ‘Dornebourg Fratrum Minorum Recollect. [ ]'. Justin, comte MacCarthy Reagh (1744-1811); inscription on verso of front endleaf: ‘Collationné, complet. C Mc.' (erased); sale catalogue (1815), I, no. 2284; note on verso of front endleaf (see above): ‘This volume was purchased at Mac-Carthy's sale at Paris in 1817 . . .’ Purchased for £5. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1817), 3. SHELFMARK: Auct. N 2.31.
2. C-287(2) Second copy Gatherings [³ a] and [¹ a] only, bound in that order. Wanting the blank leaf [¹ a1]. Binding: Calf, c.1700, with gold-tooled spine and oval library stamp in gold, largely obliterated. Size: 315 × 231 × 41 mm. Size of leaf: 305 × 206 mm. Initials supplied in red or interlocked blue and red. Paragraph marks supplied in red. Underlining and capital strokes in red. Provenance: De Parc, Brabant, Premonstratensian convent, S. Johannes Evangelista; modern pencil note on pastedown: ‘olim Bibliothecæ Parc Lovaniensis'; shelfmark(?) on pastedown ‘H.iv'. Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853); sale, (1830), lot 422. Purchased at the Renouard sale for £3. 13. 6: Books Purchased (1830), 6. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.70.