CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. De officiis. [With the commentary of Petrus Marsus]. De amicitia. [With the commentary of Omnibonus Leonicenus]. De senectute. [With the commentary of Martinus Phileticus]. Paradoxa. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 27 May 1494. Folio, 320 x 219mm. (12 9/16 x 8 5/8in.). 158 leaves, with foliation and signatures. Types: 6:105R; 5:80R; 105 Gk.; 80 Gk. 63 lines of commentary surrounding the text, and headline. Woodcut capital initials, printer's woodcut device on recto of last leaf. Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink, remains of original ties, original vellum endleaves (from an antiphonary), covers worn and rubbed, numerous holes punched in lower cover, loss to a large patch of vellum on spine, short tear to fol. h8 just entering text, a few worm tracks to gutters, one grazing a few letters on O7r, another touching text on q7 with loss to 8 letters on verso, corner of k3 repaired touching sidenote on verso, small inkstain to k1r partially obscuring a few words, occasional light foxing, some minor marginal staining. HR 5249; BMC V 443; GW 6965; Goff C-609.Provenance: Sixteenth-century ownership inscription on front free endpaper of "A. Martinus", title-page inscribed "15(?)49", possibly in the same hand; presentation inscription on front flyleaf dated 1561 in a Spanish hand; scrawled initial on last leaf; ink ownership (?) inscription on lower cover; scattered sixteenth-century interlinear notes; George Milne.

CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. De officiis. [With the commentary of Petrus Marsus]. De amicitia. [With the commentary of Omnibonus Leonicenus]. De senectute. [With the commentary of Martinus Phileticus]. Paradoxa. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 27 May 1494. Folio, 320 x 219mm. (12 9/16 x 8 5/8in.). 158 leaves, with foliation and signatures. Types: 6:105R; 5:80R; 105 Gk.; 80 Gk. 63 lines of commentary surrounding the text, and headline. Woodcut capital initials, printer's woodcut device on recto of last leaf. Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink, remains of original ties, original vellum endleaves (from an antiphonary), covers worn and rubbed, numerous holes punched in lower cover, loss to a large patch of vellum on spine, short tear to fol. h8 just entering text, a few worm tracks to gutters, one grazing a few letters on O7r, another touching text on q7 with loss to 8 letters on verso, corner of k3 repaired touching sidenote on verso, small inkstain to k1r partially obscuring a few words, occasional light foxing, some minor marginal staining. HR 5249; BMC V 443; GW 6965; Goff C-609. Provenance: Sixteenth-century ownership inscription on front free endpaper of "A. Martinus", title-page inscribed "15(?)49", possibly in the same hand; presentation inscription on front flyleaf dated 1561 in a Spanish hand; scrawled initial on last leaf; ink ownership (?) inscription on lower cover; scattered sixteenth-century interlinear notes; George Milne.

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CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. De officiis. [With the commentary of Petrus Marsus]. De amicitia. [With the commentary of Omnibonus Leonicenus]. De senectute. [With the commentary of Martinus Phileticus]. Paradoxa. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 27 May 1494. Folio, 320 x 219mm. (12 9/16 x 8 5/8in.). 158 leaves, with foliation and signatures. Types: 6:105R; 5:80R; 105 Gk.; 80 Gk. 63 lines of commentary surrounding the text, and headline. Woodcut capital initials, printer's woodcut device on recto of last leaf. Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink, remains of original ties, original vellum endleaves (from an antiphonary), covers worn and rubbed, numerous holes punched in lower cover, loss to a large patch of vellum on spine, short tear to fol. h8 just entering text, a few worm tracks to gutters, one grazing a few letters on O7r, another touching text on q7 with loss to 8 letters on verso, corner of k3 repaired touching sidenote on verso, small inkstain to k1r partially obscuring a few words, occasional light foxing, some minor marginal staining. HR 5249; BMC V 443; GW 6965; Goff C-609.

Provenance: Sixteenth-century ownership inscription on front free endpaper of "A. Martinus", title-page inscribed "15(?)49", possibly in the same hand; presentation inscription on front flyleaf dated 1561 in a Spanish hand; scrawled initial on last leaf; ink ownership (?) inscription on lower cover; scattered sixteenth-century interlinear notes; George Milne.