Mar. Tullii Ciceronis Tusculanae quaestiones [Tusculanae disputationes]

Author

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Title

Date

1541

Place

Lugduni [Lyons, France]

Publisher

Apud Seb. Gryphium

Language

Latin

Contributor

Desiderius Erasmus

Note

TABLES/INDEXES:
Includes index.

TYPE:
Italic.

PROVENANCE:
Title page autograph "Claudius Giradus [Girodus?] 1603", repeated on verso of final leaf.

FORMAT:
8vo. a-o⁸212, [12] p. ; 13cm. (8vo).

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.

IMPRINT:
Lugduni : Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1541.