M. Tul. Ciceronis de officiis libri III: commentarijs Erasmi Roterodami, Philippi Melanchthonis, Viti Amerbachij, & Francisci Maturantij, tum disquisitionibus Caelij Calcagnini illustrati; eiusdem de senectute; de amicitia; paradoxa; somnium Scipionis: cum adnotationibus longè doctissimis D. Erasmi, Barptolomaei Latomi, Petri Marsi, & Omniboni, omnià iam recèns sedulò castigata & copiosissimo rerum atque verborum indice locupletata.

Author

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Title

Date

1556

Place

Lugduni [Lyons, France]

Publisher

Apud Theobaldum Paganum

Contributor

Desiderius Erasmus

Philipp Melanchthon

Vitus Amerbach

Bartholomeus Latomus

Note

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

Archive Location

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Num Pages

[44], 547, [31] p., 57, [5] leaves, 136, [12], 68, [8] p., 33, [5] leaves

Call Number

PA6295 .A3 1556

URL

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Item Type

Book

Files

Collection

Early Modern Books

Citation

Marcus Tullius Cicero, “M. Tul. Ciceronis de officiis libri III: commentarijs Erasmi Roterodami, Philippi Melanchthonis, Viti Amerbachij, & Francisci Maturantij, tum disquisitionibus Caelij Calcagnini illustrati; eiusdem de senectute; de amicitia; paradoxa; somnium Scipionis: cum adnotationibus longè doctissimis D. Erasmi, Barptolomaei Latomi, Petri Marsi, & Omniboni, omnià iam recèns sedulò castigata & copiosissimo rerum atque verborum indice locupletata.,” Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies (CRRS) Rare Book Collection, accessed June 28, 2025, https://crrs.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/7090.