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MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO,
De officiis libri III cum interpretatione Petri Marsi [Cicero’s De officiis with commentary by PIETRO MARSO]
In Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment
France, likely Paris?, certainly after 1471-72, likely between 1481-1491 |
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ff. 13v - 14, Cicero, De officiis, end of Dedication of Pietro Marso to Cardinal Gonzaga;
Didicatory verses of Jean Heynlin; Motto "barat par tout" |
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This manuscript was copied in the circle of the eminent humanists who founded the Sorbonne Press in Paris, Jean Heynlin and Guillaume Fichet. It is based on two editions of Cicero’s De officiis, one printed in Paris in 1471-1472 by the Sorbonne Press, the other printed first in Venice in 1481, of the first edition of Pietro Marso’s influential commentary. The humanist scribe (Heynlin?) of the present manuscript was clearly a careful reader of both imprints, and it seems likely that this codex was a preparatory manuscript for another edition of Cicero by the Sorbonne Press. |
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