Accession number
PML 125051
Creator
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Published
Paris : Robert estienne, 1537.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.
Notes
Parisian school-edition with Erasmus's recension with his marginal comments.
Description
223, [17] pages ; 18 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
"Oculus sonor Vide[r?]is, alia videt" inscribed on lower flyleaf. "Nemo maiora s[cr?]opso audire debet. Nemo suis viribus maiora suscipiat & [?]. In quo maxime spectatur temeritas" inscribed inside lower cover. Contemporary Latin annotations in single hand to first quarter of text.
Provenance
"Joannes Chalancon me habet" inscription on verso of final page; "Joannes Chalancon" repeated on verso of following flyleaf. Unidentified cipher inside lower cover. From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cen. France).
Binding
Contemporary leather (calf?) over paperboards, blind tooled; manuscript waste; evidence of paper spine label.
Classification
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