De officiis Marci Tullii Ciceronis :. libri III. Item, De amicitia: de senectute: paradoxa: & de somnio scipionis. Cum indice in fine libri adjunct.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1674
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3236808
Summary
Bibliographic description
Editio cæteris correctior atque emendatior. [2], 238, [16] p. ; Provenance: Prelims, final blank and endleaf [8] p. with copious seventeenth-century Latin manuscript notation in brown ink, including doodles of faces; title page with sketches, including a face in the O of 'Officiis'; occasional ms notation to the text; nineteenth-century ownership inscription: 'Ex libris [?] / Jenkins / Coll. Joh. Cam. [i.e. St. John's College, Cambridge] / 1806.' Binding: Seventeenth-century full speckled sheep, blind fillet on boards, and 'W Y' embossed blind at centre of each (loose in its binding - holding by one cord).
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ from Mrs Petronella Burnett-Brown December 2009.
Makers and roles
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London