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Title

  • De officiis.

Names

  • Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
  • Fust, Johannes, 1400-1466, printer.
  • Schöffer, Peter, approximately 1425-approximately 1502, printer.
  • Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
  • Hibbert, George, 1757-1837, former owner.
  • Wilks, John, 1765?-1854, former owner.
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [Mainz] Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, 1465.

Headings

  • -  Ethics--Early works to 1800
  • -  Paradox--Early works to 1800
  • -  Germany--Rhineland-Palatinate--Mainz

Genre

  • Incunabula--Germany--Rhineland-Palatinate--Mainz.--1465

Notes

  • -  Printed in black and red on vellum.
  • -  Includes Marci Tulij Ciceronis Paradoxa leaf [76b-85b] [V]ersus XII Sapientu[m] ... positi in epitaphio Marci Tulij Ciceronis leaf [86a-87b] and Manlio Torquato Flaccus de vite humane breuitate leaf [88a]
  • -  Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-575
  • -  Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 5238
  • -  Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 6921
  • -  Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, p. 23 (IC.113)
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 34
  • -  Ricci. Cat. Mayence, 84, 80
  • -  Fürstlich Liechtenstein'sche Fideikommissbibliothek. Katalog der Inkun., 72
  • -  LC copy: headings of books 1-3 (leaf [1a], [33a], [52a]), printed in red in all other copies described, are supplied in gold letters, with slight variations from printed text; illuminated initials and floral scrollwork at beginning of books 1-3 and the Paradoxa; smaller initials and some paragraph marks supplied in blue or red.
  • -  LC copy has inscriptions on front flyleaf: From Hibbert's sale and catalogue; Sotheby March 12 1847 696.
  • -  Other references: This volume was sold in Hibbert's sale of 1829, lot 2058, and in Wilks' sale of March 12 1847, lot 696.
  • -  LC copy: Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1943-1975. Other provenance information: Hibbert, George; Wilks, John; Phillips, Sir Thomas.

Medium

  • [88] leaves. 25.5 cm. (fol.)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Incun. 1465 .C5

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 50049560

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Johannes Fust, Peter Schöffer, Thomas Phillipps, George Hibbert, John Wilks, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. De Officiis. [Mainz Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, 1465] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/50049560/.

APA citation style:

Cicero, M. T., Fust, J., Schöffer, P., Phillipps, T., Hibbert, G., Wilks, J. & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1465) De Officiis. [Mainz Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/50049560/.

MLA citation style:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, et al. De Officiis. [Mainz Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, 1465] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/50049560/>.