![CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.). De officiis. Commentary by Petrus Marsus. Additions: Laelius, sive de amicitia. Commentary by Omnibonus Leonicenus; Cato maior, sive de senectute. Commentary by Martinus Phileticus; Paradoxa Stoicorum. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, [about 1488].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14299_0114_001(cicero_marcus_tullius_de_officiis_commentary_by_petrus_marsus_addition052616).jpg?w=1)
![CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.). De officiis. Commentary by Petrus Marsus. Additions: Laelius, sive de amicitia. Commentary by Omnibonus Leonicenus; Cato maior, sive de senectute. Commentary by Martinus Phileticus; Paradoxa Stoicorum. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, [about 1488].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14299_0114_000(cicero_marcus_tullius_de_officiis_commentary_by_petrus_marsus_addition052616).jpg?w=1)
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CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.). De officiis. Commentary by Petrus Marsus. Additions: Laelius, sive de amicitia. Commentary by Omnibonus Leonicenus; Cato maior, sive de senectute. Commentary by Martinus Phileticus; Paradoxa Stoicorum. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, [about 1488].
This edition of Cicero marks one of the early uses of Benalius's commentary and small text type [80R], here in its first state. The use of woodcut initials is unusual, occuring in only seven books from this press in the BL's collection. HR 5270; GW 6958; BMC V, 372; BSB-Ink C-366; Goff C-604.
Super-chancery folio (309 x 211mm). Roman type, several woodcut capitals, initial spaces, rubricated in red and blue. (Quires a-f and x-z with scattered wormholes affecting text, occasional browning, quire z with marginal waterstain). Contemporary blindstamped quarter calf over wooden boards from a Landshut workshop [Kyriss 165, plate 331, figs. 2-4, 6], plain spine, metal clasps with inscription (spine restored). Provenance: Martinus Angerwerth (early name on a1r and lettered on top edge) – Fridericus Heckell de Gunzenhausen (inscription on a1r) – contemporary marginalia – 22-line Latin verse on front pastedown, finishing with this proverbial summary of life's treasures: 'Seruant raro fidem mulier sors nisus & equus'.
This edition of Cicero marks one of the early uses of Benalius's commentary and small text type [80R], here in its first state. The use of woodcut initials is unusual, occuring in only seven books from this press in the BL's collection. HR 5270; GW 6958; BMC V, 372; BSB-Ink C-366; Goff C-604.
Super-chancery folio (309 x 211mm). Roman type, several woodcut capitals, initial spaces, rubricated in red and blue. (Quires a-f and x-z with scattered wormholes affecting text, occasional browning, quire z with marginal waterstain). Contemporary blindstamped quarter calf over wooden boards from a Landshut workshop [Kyriss 165, plate 331, figs. 2-4, 6], plain spine, metal clasps with inscription (spine restored). Provenance: Martinus Angerwerth (early name on a1r and lettered on top edge) – Fridericus Heckell de Gunzenhausen (inscription on a1r) – contemporary marginalia – 22-line Latin verse on front pastedown, finishing with this proverbial summary of life's treasures: 'Seruant raro fidem mulier sors nisus & equus'.
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