M. T. Ciceronis Tusculanarum quaestionum libri V, ad uetustiss. exemplar manu scriptum summa diligentia correcti & emendati: ac commentarijs clariss. uirorum Georgij Vallae, Philippi Beroaldi, & Ioachimi Camerarij: deinde Erasmi Roterodami, Iani Pagnini, & Paul Manutij uarijs lectionibus & scholijs illustrati. Cum indice rerum ac uerborum locupletiss.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1549
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3008082
Summary
Bibliographic description
369, [21] leaves ; 4to. Running number: 5277. On the title page the name "Ioachimi Camerarij" in the title has been blacked out -- see MS. note at foot of title page. His name has also been blacked out on the verso of leaf B1. Leaf B3 attached to a stub; possibly a cancel. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "γ'." [i.e. gamma' = Greek 3]. Extensive manuscript notes in seventeenth-century[?] hand on second front fly-leaf, headed: "Philippi Beroaldi Bononiensis ad Nobilea Phillipum Cirlanum Pannonium Discipulum suum [exce]rpta[?]". Manuscript inscription in neat sixteenth-century[?] hand beneath imprint on title page: "Ad indicem expurgatoriu[m] e tertii co[m]mentatoris co[m]me[n]tariis loca aliquot repurgauit / [signed] Ant. á Guyck[?]". With manuscript marginal annotations and underscoring of text throughout. Manuscript code on rear pastedown: "cR/e S[underlined]". Binding: seventeenth-century full plain vellum over boards; yapp edges; spine cracked, partially missing; remnants of faded manuscript title on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Giorgio Valla (1447-1500), editor Beroaldo, Filippo 1453, editor Camerarius, Joachim, editor Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), editor Janus Pagninus, editor Paolo Manuzio (1512-1574), editor