[De officiis ; Paradoxa ; Laelius de amicitia ; Cato maior de senectute ; Somnium Scipionis].

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Cicero, Marcus Tullius, author.
Uniform title:Works. Selections. 1470
Imprint:[Venice] : [Vindelinus de Spira], [13 August 1470]
Description:136 leaves ; 28 cm (4to)
Language:Latin
Subject:
Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's imperfect: lacking leaves [1], [10], [135], and [136]; leaf [10] replaced with facsimile on laid paper with watermark "MA".
University of Chicago Library's copy is a gift of Frank W. Gunsaulus.
Discovery of this item made possible by a gift from Julie and Roger Baskes.
Bound in blue morocco.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2781856
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other uniform titles:Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De officiis.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Paradoxa.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Laelius de amicitia.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cato maior de senectute.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Somnium Scipionis.
Wendelin, of Speier, -1477?
Other authors / contributors:Sangorski & Sutcliffe, binder.
Provenance:Former owner's inscription, leaf [108] verso: 1556 GK[?] Engentinus.
Former owner's initials "KG" added in manuscript to inital on leaf [2] recto.
Former owners' manuscript annotations in several hands; manicules and other index marks; underscoring; some annotations partially trimmed on head and fore edges.
Decoration: Large and medium alternating red and blue initials, in some instances a former owner has corrected initials, added pen-flourishing or faces to initials; rubricated in red and blue.
Binding: Blue morocco over boards; stamped: Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Notes:Title devised by cataloger.
Incipit, leaf [2] recto: Marci Tulii Ciceronis Arpinatis consulisq[ue] Romani ac oratorum maximi ad M. Tulium Ciceronem filiu[m] suum Officio[rum] liber incipit.
Colophon, leaf [132] recto: Anno christi M.CCCC.lxx die uero xiii me[n]sis Augusti, Venetiis. E spira nato Ciceronis opuscula quinque h[a]ec Vindelino formis impressa fuere.
Printer from Incunabula short title catalogue.
Signatures: [1¹⁰ 2-12⁸ 13¹⁰ 14-16⁸ 17⁴]; unsigned.
30 lines; Haebler, type 1:110R; capital spaces and spaces for text in Greek.
Leaves [1], [135], and [136] blank.
Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ic00577000
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry 06926
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 5257
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry C-577
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, pages 155-156 (IB.19514, IB.19511)
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 4020
Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, entry C-311
Pellechet, M. Catalogue général des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France, entry 3728

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