OTHER:
Bound with Xystus Betuleius' In Mar. Tullii Ciceronis de officiis, amicitia, senectute libros chronologia.
Separate title page for each work.
TYPE:
Renaissance roman (text); italic (notes).
TABLES/INDEXES:
Includes chronological table of events relating to the De officiis, De amicitia, and De senectute; includes fold-out genealogical table of the family of Cato. I
Includes indexes.
PROVENANCE:
Autograph on title page: "Georg: Adam Rath."
MARGINALIA:
Notes on front free endpaper giving page numbers for some of the contents; note on p. 535 of the De officiis identifying the work in which the letter by Petrus Balduinus found on this page was originally published.
Occasional printed marginalia.
FORMAT:
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DEDICATIONS:
Includes introductory letter by Theobaldus Paganus addressed to the reader.
Includes introductory letter by Petrus Balduinus addressed to Antonius Crequiaeus.
Includes introductory letter by Erasmus addressed to Jacobus Tutor.
Includes introductory letter by Petrus Balduinus addressed to the reader.
BINDING:
Half bound alum tawed pigskin and manuscript waste (unknown author) over pasteboard made up of printer's waste (unknown author); blind tooling on the pigskin including female figures with captions 'Spes' [Hope], 'Fides' [Faith], 'Pacien[cia]' [Patience], and 'Chari[tas]' [Charity].
REFERENCES:
Haeghen, F. van der, Bib. Erasmiana, ser. 2, p.21.
Includes: In Mar. Tullii Ciceronis de Officiis, Amicitia, Senectute libros chronologia / Xysto Betuleio autore, with a special t.-p
TABLES/INDEXES:
Includes index.
TYPE:
Italic.
PROVENANCE:
Title page autograph "Claudius Giradus [Girodus?] 1603", repeated on verso of final leaf.
MARGINALIA:
Underlining throughout Tusculanae quaestiones I and occasionally elsewhere; marginal "Nota" notes in Latin throughout Tusculanae quaestiones I; occasional marginal manicules in Tusculanae quaestiones I; extensive marginal and interlinear notes in Latin throughout Tusculanae quaestiones II and occasionally elsewhere. Decoration on p. 62. Picture of an animal on p. 135. Pen trials on recto of final leaf.
Occasional printed marginalia.
BINDING:
Leather wrapper; both boards reinforced with MS waste (Justinian's Digest 39.4, red and blue capitals); boards made up of 6-8 MS sheets (unknown author, red capitals and paragraph divisions).
REFERENCES:
Haeghen, F. van der, Bib. Erasmiana, ser. 2, p. 20.
DEDICATIONS:
Includes introductory letter by Erasmus addressed to Ioannes Ulattenus.
Includes preface by Angelo Poliziano, annotations by Erasmus, and De XII Caesaribus by Ausonius.