Shelfmark
Ff.6.01(01)
Author
Uniform title
[De officiis. 1519]
Title
Officia Ciceronis rursus accuratissime recognita, per Erasmum Roterodamu[m], vna cu[m] aliis, quo[rum], catalogum reperies in proxima pagella..
Publication, distribution, etc.
Louanii : Apud Theodoricu[m] Martinum Alostensem., [1519?].
Physical description
[14], [134] leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Note
Date of publication suggested by salutation preceding colophon on recto of final leaf: "Bene vale. Louanii. Natali. S. Luciæ. Anno M. D. XIX. Louanii apud Theodoricum Alustensem typographum."
Note
Signatures: [a]-b⁴ c⁶ A-Z⁴ aa-ff⁴ gg⁶ hh-ii⁴ kk⁶.
Note
Unpaginated. Signatures of final gathering are irregular: kk3 is signed c3, and kk4, ii4: there is no catchword on kk3v, and the last word is "circumferre", which in Allen (Opus epist. no. 1053, vol 4 p. 150) is the last word of a paragraph in Erasmus's letter to Lupset: the text follows on correctly "His iniuriis" (kk4r).
Note
Printer's device of an anchor on verso of leaf gg6.
Note
Title printed within historiated woodcut border incorporating printer's anchor device.
Note
Woodcut initials; printed sidenotes.
With note
With: Epistolae aliquot selectae ex Erasmicis per Hadrianum Barlandum. Louanii : Apud Theodoricum Martinum, 1520.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Contents: Praefatio Erasmi, ad D. Iacobum tutorem -- Eiusdem Annotationes nouae, in libros Ciceronis infra notatos -- Praefatio Erasmi ad eundem Iacobum tutorem -- Tre libri Officiorum, dligenter, ac denuo ab codem recogniti, vna cum argumentis, & annotationibus merginalibus [sic] -- Liber de amicitia -- Liber de senectute -- Paradoxa -- Epistola quaedam Erasmi, digna lectu.
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
Contemporary ?English dark brown blind-panelled calf binding; upper cover panel with two compartments, in each a figure of St Barbara with a tower, in a border with quatrefoils in lozenges; lower cover panel with two compartments, in each five vertical bands, the four outer having animals in twisted foliage, the innermost quatrefoils in lozenges, in the border of each compartment the legend "Notam fac michi viam in/qua ambulem/quia ad te leuaui/animam meam"; traces of two pairs of ties; three raised bands; red morocco spine-label.
Binding
St Barbara figures on at least five panels current in the English book trade. These two panels (St Barbara and the "Flemish animal" panel) are given by Hobson as to be found on six books, dated 1509-1519 (Hobson, BSP, p. 55). See Birley notebook, Bindings V, 840.
Copy-specific note
Extensive early marginalia; English translation of Latin motto at foot of anchor device on gg6v: "Make faste thy mynde to thys holy duble ankere. Then lanche hem forthe, no tempest schall the dere".
Copy-specific note
Also bound with: Croke, Richard. Introductiones in rudimenta Graeca. Coloniae : In aedibus E. Cervicorni, 1520.
Copy-specific note
Previously: Fl.4.15(01).
Subject
Old age Early works to 1800.
Subject
Friendship Early works to 1800.
Subject
Conduct of life Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1667 - 1727 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Laelius de amicitia
Added entry--name
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cato maior de senectute
Added entry--name
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Paradoxa
Added entry--place
Belgium Louvain.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B32718