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Identifier: 
MS765
Title: 
CICERO, DE OFFICIIS
Description: 
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 'De officiis' and 'Paradoxa' (Mainz: Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, 4 Feb. 1466). A printed work (BMC I 24). With manuscript annotations thoroughout, comprising marginalia and iterlinear English translations, early 16th cent. f. 1r. 'Marci Tulij Ciceronis Arpinatis consulisque romani, ac oratorum maximi, ad. M Tulium Ciceronem filium suum, Officiorum liber incipit...' f. 76v. 'Marci Tulij Ciceronis paradoxa incipit...' f. 87v. Colophon: 'Presens Marci tulij clarissimu[m] opus. Johannes fust Mogu[n]tinus ciuis. no[n] atrame[n]to. plumali ca[n]na ne[que] aerea. Sed arte quadam perpulcra. manu Petri de gernshem pueri mei feliciter effeci finitum. Anno. M.cccc.lxvi. quarta die mensis februarij. [et]c'. ff. 87v-88r. Notes on the invention and early history of printing, written in a neat italic hand of towards 1600.
Date: 
1466
Format: 
Vellum
Language: 
Latin and English
Rights: 
LPL