- CICERO, DE OFFICIIS; PARADOXA STOICORUM. SECOND EDITION: [Mainz]: Johann Fust & Peter Schoeffer, 4 February 1466
- Collections:
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- Incunabula at Princeton
- In Principio
- Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
- F & S grouping
- The Scheide Library
- Treasures of Rare Book Division
- Curatorial Note:
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- The 1465 Cicero is the first Latin classical text to be printed north of the Alps, closely contemporary with Cicero’s De Oratore printed in Subiaco the same year. There were issues both on paper and on vellum, the paper having been cut down to produce pages a little smaller than standard Chancery folio. On the last page is printed Horace’s Ode “Diffugere nives”, the first appearance in print of classical poetry. The Morgan Library’s vellum copy, like the exhibited Bible of 1462, was illuminated in Mainz by the “Fust Master”. The 1465 Cicero must have sold quickly, for the printers soon reprinted it page-for-page, in a second edition of early 1466, again in both paper and vellum issues. This second edition overlapped with the first edition, for some 1466 copies include a number of 1465 sheets. The Scheide Library’s vellum copy was illuminated in Franco-Flemish style. It is opened to the beginning of the Paradoxa. Where Cicero quotes from the Greek the words θετικῶς (in the manner of a thesis) and Ὅτι μόνον τὸ καλὸν ἀγαθόν (Only that which is moral is good), the printers substituted ad hoc characters that only remotely resemble the Greek alphabet.
- Bookseller:
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- Rosenbach Company
- Author:
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Provenance:
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- Princeton copy 1 given in 1572 by David Weisius to the town library of Augsburg. cf. Ricci, S. de. Catalogue raisonné des premières impressions de Mayence.
- Princeton copy 1 has coat of arms of Count Golovkin on front cover and his monogram within crest on back cover.
- Princeton copy 1 has stamp of Prince Galitzin on leaf [1].
- Princeton copy 1 has bookplate of Grenville Kane.
- Princeton copy 2 copy formerly owned by Ralph Willett, Holford Library, Sussex Library; acquired 12/15/27 from Rosenbach.
- Former owner:
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- Golovkin, Aleksandr Gavrilovich, graf, 1688-1760
- Golit︠s︡yn, Mikhail Petrovich, 1764-approximately 1835
- Kane, Grenville, 1854-1943
- Willett, Ralph, 1719-1795
- Staats-, Kreis- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg
- Holford Library
- Sussex Library
- Creator:
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Language:
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- Latin
- Call number:
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- EXKA Incunabula 1466
- 31.17
- Extent:
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- [88] leaves. 26 cm. (fol.)
- Format:
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- Book
- Type:
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- Armorial bindings (Binding)
- Early works to 1800
- Description:
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- Colophon: Presens Marci tulij clarissimu[m] opus. Johannes fust Mogu[n]tinus ciuis. no[n] atrame[n]to plumali ca[n]na neq[ue] aerea. Sed arte quadam perpulcra. manu Petri de gernsshem pueri mei feliciter effeci finitum. Anno M.cccc.lxvi. quarta die mensis februarij ...
- Signatures: pi1, 1-11 in alternate 6's and 10's, chi1.
- Printed in black and red.
- Includes the author's Paradoxa.
- "Compared with the NYPL (Astor) copy on paper, and with the BM Cat. of XV Cent. Books, Part I (1908), p. 24, for description of two copies on vellum and two on paper, and found to differ only in one respect, namely, that this copy does not have the four lines of title heading printed in red at the top of the first page as in other copies, but has instead a manuscript title heading of two lines in red. Note also that the chapter heading in red on the verso of leaf 14 is printed upside down, while in the NYPL copy it is right side up. Of the 43 copies described by Seymour de Ricci in his Catalogue raisonné des premières impressions de Mayence ... this copy is no. 40 of the list ... "--Typewritten report by Wilberforce Eames, laid in.
- Princeton copy 1 is printed on parchment.
- Publisher:
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- [Mainz] Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, 4 Feb. 1466.
- Subject:
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- Ethics—Early works to 1800
- Paradox—Early works to 1800
- Armorial bindings (Binding)
- Title sort:
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- De officiis.
- Binding note:
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- Princeton copy 1 in red straight-grain goatskin ruled and tooled in gold; quartered arms are stamped in gold on front cover; Count Golovkin's arms with his monogram are stamped in gold on rear cover; plain blue endpapers; in red smooth cloth slipcase with dark red goatskin trim.
- References:
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- Goff C-576
- BM 15th cent., I, p. 24 (IB.115)
- GW 6922
- Stillwell C522
- De Ricci 85:61
- Galitzin, M. Catalogue des livres 138
- Contributor:
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- Eames, Wilberforce, 1855-1937
- Printer:
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- Fust, Johannes, 1400-1466
- Schöffer, Peter, approximately 1425-approximately 1502
- Created:
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- 1466-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Date:
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- 1466
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/9k41zj964
- Location:
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- HSVR EXKA Incunabula 1466
- HSVR 31.17
- WHS EXKA Incunabula 1466
- WHS 31.17
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Range label:
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- Logical
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