Commentu[m] familiare in Ciceronis Officia / cum Petri Marsi exactissima explanatione, ab ipso recognita et diligenter annotata ; cumq[ue] de Amicitia, Senectute, [et] Paradoxis eiusdem Ciceronis non penitendis commentarijs et omnium tum rerum, tum, verborum, indice.
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Title
Commentu[m] familiare in Ciceronis Officia / cum Petri Marsi exactissima explanatione, ab ipso recognita et diligenter annotata ; cumq[ue] de Amicitia, Senectute, [et] Paradoxis eiusdem Ciceronis non penitendis commentarijs et omnium tum rerum, tum, verborum, indice.
Created/published
[Lyon] : [Etienne Gueynard], anno D[omi]ni Mcccccij die vero penultima Aprilis [1502]
Description
[8], CCLVIII, [1] p. (the last p. blank) ; 26 cm (4to)
In addition to that of Marso, contains commentaries by Badius, Bonisoli, and Filetico. "Jodocus Badius Ascensius Stephano Geynardo bibliopole optimo ...": Title page verso. Gueynard was active in Lyon. Date from colophon. Signatures: 2A⁸ a-z⁸ A-H⁸ I¹⁰. Title printed in red. Title vignette: woodcut images of Cicero flanked by Marso and Badius.
In 19th cent. brown morocco with gilt tooling, fillets, and centerpiece (arms of Henry VIII), clasps, binder's mark of Douglas Cockerell, dated 1899. King Henry VIII's schoolboy copy, inscribed on leaf a1: "Thys Boke is Myne Prynce Henry." Several other notes in the prince's hand along with notes thought to be by Henry's tutor, John Skelton. Contemporary inscriptions on t.p.: "He that cannot suffer, shall not Joye," "In silence is savegar[y]?," "Vertue avaylythe no whytt where fortune contrariethe it," and "Cicero in actionibus Vacare debet omni culpa qui in alium dicere parat est." Armorial bookplates of John Howard Marsden, James Bindley, and Arthur Dalrymple. Bookplate of Christopher Alexander Marsden. Early manuscript bibliographical notes concerning Thomas Rawlinson's ownership.
