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De officiis: Libri tres

Language: Latin, Italian. In Latin; the allocution on the last two leaves is partly in Italian. The script is Gothica textualis bastarda.
Imprint: [Italy, latter half of the 15th cent.]
Physical description: 1 v. (122 leaves): 22 cm.

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Call number	Status
MSS CODEX M0378 CB	In-library use

Creators/Contributors

Author/Creator: Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Contents/Summary

Summary: This manuscript contains the complete text of DE OFFICIIS, followed by the poetic funeral epitaphs for Cicero's tomb by the "duodecim sapientes."

Subjects

Subject: Cicero, Marcus Tullius.; Humanists > Italy.; Italy > History > 15th century.

Local subject: 15th century CHR > Italy.; Medieval and Renaissance studies > Italy > 15th century.

Bibliographic information

Earliest possible date: 1450
Latest possible date: 1499
Note: There are substantial interlinear and marginal notations by a hand different from, but roughly contemporaneous with, the text.
Citation: Reported to: Bibliothèque Nationale pre-1600 manuscript census.
Note: Marcus Tullius Cicero lived from 106 to 43 B.C. He originally wrote De officiis for the instruction of his son Marcus.
Provenance: Purchased, 1971.

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