Collection ID: 0053 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

De officiis ... etc. manuscript, 15th century.

Authors

• Cicero, Marcus Tullius, author.

Other related names

• Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner., former owner

Call number

MS V.a.112
(Washington, DC, USA, Folger Shakespeare Library)

Alternate identifiers

• https://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=339727

Publisher

Folger Shakespeare Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy
England

Summary

Contains 5 Ciceronian treatises (leaves 1r-68r, 73r-99r); an anonymous medieval accessus (introduction) to Macrobius' commentary on the Dream of Scipio narrated by Cicero at the end of his Republic (leaves 68r-72r); a miscellany of 20 pseudonymous and Ciceronian epistles and orations (leaves 99v-107v, 108v-121v); and 3 orations extracted from the Annals of Tacitus (leaves 107v-108v). The pseudonymous works include four works purporting to be speeches delivered in senate, two are attributed to Sallust (leaves 99v-103r), one to Cicero (leaves 103r-104v) and one to Catiline (leaves 104v-105v); four speeches, two attributed to Demothenes (leaves 105v-16v, 107r-107v), one to Aeschines (leaf 106v) and one to Demades (leaves 106v-107r); one spurious and doubtful letter to Octavian (leaves 108v-109v); and 11 authentic letters of Cicero (leaves 109v-121v).

Notes

• Folger card catalog title: Works of Cicero and others
   
• Manuscript on parchment (goatskin).
   
• Volume in two parts.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger from rubric on leaf 1r.
   
• stub after leaf 121
   
• section of margin cut out on leaf 7
   
• whole outer margin cut off on leaves 80 and 104
   
• blank leaf 72v
   
• Uniform Title: [Works. Selections]
   

Extent

Leaves ii (paper) + 1-72, 73-121 + ii (paper); 230 x 162 mm

Collation

a-m⁸ n⁶ o-p⁸ q⁴(-1)

Signatures

signatures a-q labeled on bottom of first leaf of each signature

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

horizontal catchwords only before signatures j, and m-q.

Binding

Bound in 17th-century English stamped calf on boards with red and black speckled edges.

Layout

Part 1 written in 35 long lines (dimensions of written space 184 x 97 mm); Part 2 written in 34 long lines (dimensions of written space 177 x 90 mm); ruling in crayon; written above line; prickings in outer margin; annotated including manicules throughout; edges cut affecting text.

Decoration

Blue with red flourish initials throughout.

Script

Written in Hybrid Gothic Script with a Humanistic influence.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by W.T. Smedley (bookplate). Purchased as part of the Smedley Collection in 1924 by Henry Clay Folger.
   

Related resources

• Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, SM.12

Subjects topical

• Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De officiis
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De fato
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Paradoxa
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Somnium Scipionis
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Laelius de amicitia
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cato maior de senectute
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius. In Catilinam
• Tacitus, Cornelius. Annales. Selections
• Pseudo-Sallust. Invectiva in Ciceronem
• Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius. Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis --Manuscripts
• Aeschines, Socraticus, active 4th century B.C. --Spurious and doubtful works --Manuscripts
• Demosthenes --Spurious and doubtful works --Manuscripts
• Marcellus, Marcus Claudius, -45 B.C. --Manuscripts
• Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C. --Spurious and doubtful works --Manuscripts
• Catiline, approximately 108 B.C.-62 B.C. --Spurious and doubtful works --Manuscripts
• Demades, approximately 380 B.C.-319 B.C. --Spurious and doubtful works --Manuscripts

Genres

• Manuscripts, Latin --15th century
• Annotations (Provenance)
• Manicules (Provenance)

Keywords

• 15th century
• English
• England
• Italian
• Italy
• History

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Marcus Tulius Cicero, De officiis; incipit: Tanquam te Marce fili annum iam audientem eratippum -- idque athonis abundare oportet preceptis... [fol. 1r]; explicit: ...Cicero tibique persuade esse te quidem michi carissimum sed multo fore cariorem, si talibus monimentis [sic] preceptisque letabere. Amen. [fol. 54v]
• fol. 55r — Tullius, De fato; incipit: Quia pertinet ad mores quos ethos illi uocant, nos eam partem philosophye de moribus appellare solemus... [fol. 55r]; explicit: ...Illud quamquam necesse est declinare quibus athomis uel, si uolunt, omnibus naturaliter. [fol. 61v]
• fol. 61v — Tulius de paradoxis Stoycorum; incipit: Animaduerti, Brute, sepe Catonem, auunculum tuum, cum in senatu sententiam diceret locos graues ex philosophya... [fol. 61v]; explicit: ...haberet esset satis, non modo non copiosi ac diuites sed etiam inopes et paupers extimandi sunt. [fol. 68r]
• fol. 68r — Macrobius, Super sompno Scipionis; incipit: Plato decem uolumina de institutione rei publicae composuit in quorum ultimo conclusione... [fol. 68r]; explicit: ...superstitem post hominem durare qui poterat ostendi nisi primo de anima in... [fol. 72r]
• fol. 73r — Tulius, De Amicicia; incipit: Quintus Mucius augur Sceuola multa narrare de Celio Lelio, socero suo memoriter et iocunde solebat nec dubitare illum in omni sermone appellare sapientem... [fol. 73r]; explicit: ...Vos autem hortor ut ita uirtutem locetis, sine qua amicicia esse non potest, ut ea excepta nichil amicicia prestabilius esse putetis. [fol. 86r]
• fol. 86v — Marci Tulii Ciceronis, De Senectute; incipit: E Tite, si quid ego adiuero curamue leuasso, que nunc te coquit et uersat in pectore firma... [fol. 86v]; explicit: ...Hec habui de senectute que dicerem ad quam utinam perueniatis, ut ea que ex me audistis re experti probare possitis. [fol. 99r]
• fol. 99v — Inuectiua Salustii contra Tullium; incipit: Grauiter et iniquo animo maledicta tua paterer, Marce Tulli, si te scirem iudicio magis quam animi tui morbo petulancia ista uti... [fol. 99v]; explicit: ... hiis maledicis illos odisti, leuissime transfuga, neque in hac neque in illa parte fidem habeas. [fol. 100v]
• fol. 100v — Inuectiua Tulli rursum Salustii; incipit: Ea demum magna uoluptas est, Crispe Salusti, equalem ac parem uerbis uitam agree neque... [fol. 100v]; explicit: ...debeat audire sed ut ea dicam, si qua honeste effari possem. [fol. 103r]
• fol. 103r — Invectiua Tulli contra Catilinam ciuem ro[manum]; incipit: Non est amplius tempus otii P.C. Non est locus amplius postestatum in Ytalia... [fol. 103r]; explicit: ...omnibus igitur satisfacietis P.C. si de ciuitate Catilinam, ymmo terrorem omnium expuleritis. [fol. 104v]
• fol. 104v — Inuectiua Catiline contra Tullium; incipit: Si subtiliter a circumstantibus qui sit presentis actoris controuersia requiratur... [fol. 104v]; explicit: ...Ciceronis prece precio confectum est, ut nemo se Cateline tutorem audeat confiteri. [fol. 105v]
• fol. 105v — Epistola excusata Athenienses propter recepcionem Thebanorum; incipit: Nichil habet rex Alexander uel fortuna tua major quam posset uel natura tua melius... [fol. 105v]; explicit: ...fore quam eam quam hodierna die cum hec feceris consequuturus es. [fol. 106v]
• fol. 106v — Consilium Esthines propter obsidionem Alexandrie factam ciuitate Athenarum; incipit: Reminiscor Athenienses Alexandrum hac nostra in urbe liberalibus artibus erudinis Aristotilis disciplinis... [fol. 106v]; explicit: ...beniuolencia facile reuersurus, si nos obsequentes sibi supplicesque inuenerit. [fol. 106v]
• fol. 106v — Consilium Demadis ad arma; incipit: Admirans uehementer admiror uiri Athenienses quonam modo timiditatem nobis... [fol. 106v]; explicit: ...spoliatum urbem suis custodibus et uiribus uacuatam facilius dirripiat. [fol. 107r]
• fol. 107r — Unidentified oration; incipit: Apud nos in questione uerti uideo uidere utrum summenda sint arma nobis aduersus Alexandrum... [fol. 107v]; explicit: ...seruiuimus Philippo ne forte similes existimamus Thebanis. [fol. 107v]
• fol. 107v — Unidentified oration; incipit: Si quanta nobilitas et fortuna michi fuit, tanta uerum prosperarum... [fol. 107v]; explicit: ...Et sequitur Cornelius Tacitus, dicens: ad hec Cesar sibi et coniugi et fratribus tribuit. [fol. 107v]
• fol. 107v — Unidentified oration; incipit: Quartus decimus annus est, Cesar, ex quo spei tunc admotus sum, optans ut imperium... [fol. 107v]; explicit: ...tuam gloriam cedet, eos ad summa uexisse qui et modica tollerarent. [fol. 108r]
• fol. 108r — Unidentified oration; incipit: Et quod medietate orationi tue occurram statim id primum tui muneris habeo... [fol. 108r]; explicit: ...adiecit amplexus et oscula, factus natura, et consuetudine erectus uelare fallacibus blandiciis. [fol. 108v]
• fol. 108v — Unidentified oration; incipit: Si per tuas legiones michi licitum fuisset, que nomini meo populoque Romano... [fol. 108v]; explicit: ...Quo te misimus? a quibus reuerteris ? contra quos armauimus? [fol. 109v]
• fol. 109v — Unidentified oration; incipit: Ego omni officio ac potius pietate erga te ceteris satisfacio omnibus, michi ipse unquam satisfacio... [fol. 109v]; explicit: ...si essent in hiis fides, in quibus summa esse debebat, non laboraremus. [fol. 110r]
• fol. 110r — Unidentified oration; incipit: Ydibus Januariis in senatu nichil est confectum, propterea quod dies magna ex parte consumptus... [fol. 110r]; explicit: ...ut quam rectissime agantur omnia mea cum cura, opera, diligencia, gratia prouidebo. [fol. 111r]
• fol. 111r — Unidentified oration; incipit: Trebonis qui in tua prouincia magna negocia et ampla et expedita multos annos habet... [fol. 111r]; explicit: ...Omnibusque rebus eum ita tractos ut intelligat meam commendationem non uulgarem fuisse. [fol. 111r]
• fol. 111r — Unidentified oration; incipit: A.D. xvi kal. februarias cum in senatu pulcherrime extaremus quod iam illam sentenciam Bibuli... [fol. 111r]; explicit: ...populi R[omani] studio summo amplitudinem tuam retenturum. [fol. 111v]
• fol. 111v — Unidentified oration; incipit: Nametsi nichil michi fuit optatius quam ut exornatat... [fol. 111v]; explicit: ... ex tuis neque fide maiore esse iudico neque amantiorem tui. [fol. 112r]
• fol. 112r — Unidentified oration; incipit: Hic que agamur queque acta sunt ea te et litteris multorum et nuncios cognosse... [fol. 112r]; explicit: ...leuissimi hominis tuam prestinam dignitatem et gloriam consequare. [fol. 112v]
• fol. 112v — Unidentified oration; incipit: Que gerentur, accipies a Pollione, qui omnibus negotiis non interfuit solum sed prefuit... [fol. 112v]; explicit: ...summa ui te studia officiaque exspecta; non fallam opinionem tuam. [fol. 112v]
• fol. 112v — Unidentified oration; incipit: Legi litteras tuas, quibus ad me scribis gratum tibi esse, quod crebro... [fol. 112v]; explicit: ...quia dilexit in primis amamus rarumque habemus. Vale. [fol. 114v]
• fol. 114v — Unidentified oration; incipit: De omnibus rebus, que ad te pertinent, quod actum, quid constitutum sit, quod Pompeius... [fol. 114v]; explicit: ...contenderimus, quam possumus, minus tamen faciemus quam debemus. [fol. 115v]
• fol. 115v — Unidentified oration; incipit: Periocunde michi fuerunt littere tue quibus intellexi te perspicere meam in te pietatem... [fol. 115v]; explicit: ...iam videtur michi exponendo tempus dari ut tibi rescribam as ea que queris. [fol. 116r]
• fol. 116r — Unidentified oration; incipit: Certiorem te per litteras scribis... [fol. 116r]; explicit: ...habere uoluissent: nunc ut Appelles Veneris caput et summa pectoris... [fol. 118v]
• fol. 118v — Epistola Tullii ad Marcum Marcellum; incipit: Diuturni silencii, id conscripti, quo eram hiis temporibus usus, non timore aliquo sed partim, dolore partim uerecundia... [fol. 118v]; explicit: ...quamuis si[s] sapiens, non negabis. Parumne, inquies, igitur gloriam magnam relinquemus? Ymmo uero... [fol. 121v]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, W.T. Smedley
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 2v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 3r — Decorated initial F
• fol. 3v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 4r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 7r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 9v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 14r — Decorated initial S
• fol. 23v — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 25r — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 26v — Decorated initial M
• fol. 28r — Decorated initial T
• fol. 37r — Decorated initial S
• fol. 37v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 54v — Decorated initial H
• fol. 55r — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 61v — Decorated initial A
• fol. 68r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 68r — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 68v — Decorated initial C
• fol. 71v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 73r — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 73r — Decorated initial A
• fol. 81v — Decorated initial F
• fol. 86v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 99v — Decorated initial G
• fol. 100v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 103r — Decorated initial N
• fol. 104v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 105v — Decorated initial N
• fol. 106v — Decorated initial R
• fol. 106v — Decorated initial A
• fol. 107r — Decorated initial A
• fol. 107v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 107v — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 108r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 108v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 109v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 110r — Decorated initial Y
• fol. 111r — Decorated initial A
• fol. 111v — Decorated initial N
• fol. 112v — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 112v — Decorated initial L
• fol. 114v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 115v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 116r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 118v — Decorated initial D