M. T. Ciceronis De officiis lib. III. . Cum copiosissimis viri longè doctissimi commentariis, & cum viti Amerbachij commentariolis, annotationibus Erasmi Roter. Philippi Melanch. & disquisitionibus aliquot Caelij Calcagnini. Eiusdem, De senectute, De amicitia, dialogi singuli cum commentariis longè vtilissimis, Paradoxa cum triplici commentario, & Somnium Scipionis cum annotationibus Erasmi, & Bartholomaei Latomi. Haec omnia, summa fide ac diligentia ex collatione vetustissimorum codicum sunt à Petro Balduino Sampolino integritati restituta, quod ex eius in aliquot loca annotationibus lector deprehendet, in calce libri additis.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1549 - 1550
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3038310
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],176 leaves . 4to.. Shelved and uniform with five other 16th century Paris printed volumes of Cicero. Identified in 1796 inventory: Q 189, price 2s. 6d. Christies, 21 June 2004, lot 647.. Provenance: Bookplate: Chirk Castle R. E. Myddelton [i.e. Robert Edward Myddelton (1866-1949)]; crest, signed and dated: W.P.B. 1914.. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf binding; double gilt fillet and blind roll pattern border; gilt roll on board edges; gold-tooled spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Petrus Balduinus Celio Calcagnini (1479 - 1541) Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) Bartholomaeus Latomus (1485-1570) Philipp Schwarzerd called Melanchthon (1497-1560)