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Marci Tulij Ciceronis Arpinatis [con]sulisq[ue] Romani ac oratoru[m] maximi ad M. Tuliu[m] Ciceronem filiu[m] suu[m] Officio[rum] liber incipit

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Publication date: Anno M.cccc.lxv. [1465]
Call number: 105401
Creator: Cicero, Marcus Tullius(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Rosenbach, June 1925. Occasional interlinear reader notes throughout in a very small, fifteenth-century hand. Some corrections, defining of key terms. Reading marks including some manicules. Acquired by Johann Gottfried Schweighhauser who helped to arrange the sale of the item to Thomas Frognall Didbin (intended for Henry Drury). Ms. bibliographical annotations in Drury's hand on the work and the item's monastic provenance and transfer via Dibdin. Drury coat of arms stamped in gold on inside covers. Subsequently owned by Robert Harding Evans, William Pickering, Philip Augustus Hanrott, and Samuel Butler. Shelfmark "E.5" in pencil on first front flyleaf recto, probably from Holford library. Sold to Rosenbach in May 1925.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions: 26 cm (folio)
Associated people: Fust, Johannes, (1400-1466,); Schöffer, Peter, (approximately 1425-approximately 1502,); Drury, Henry, (1778-1841,); Evans, R. H. (1777-1857,); Hanrott, Philip Augustus, (1774-1839,); Butler, Samuel, (1808-1892,); Holford, Robert Stayner, (1860-1926,); Holford, George Lindsay, (1786-1836,); Lewis, Charles,; Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
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