Beinecke MS 170                                                          Italy, s. XV
Cicero, De officiis

     1. pp. 1-169    [Q]uamquam te Marce filij annum iam audientem
     Cratippum idque athenis abundare oportet...Sed multo fore cariorem si
     talibus monimentis preceptisque letabere. Excellunt libros cunctorum
     philosophorum Isti quos fecit tres tulius officiorum.

          C. Atzert, ed., Teubner (1932) pp. 1-123.

     2. p. 169    De Cicerone. Ille super gangem super exauditus et
     indos/...cuiquam sperare nepotum.

          Walther, Initia, 8719.

     3. p. 170    [beginning of Cicero, De amicitia:] [Q]uintus Mucius
     Augur Sceuola multa narrare de C//

          Parchment, ff. ii (paper) + 85 (paginated 1-170) + ii (paper), 200 x 137
     (135 x 98) mm. Written in 25 long lines; single vertical bounding lines ruled in
     lead; horizontal lines in ink.
          I-VI^^8, VII-VIII^^10, IX^^8, X^^10 (-10). Signatures (letters of
     alphabet) by a modern hand.
          Written in well formed humanistic script by a single scribe who
     often did not write on the final two guide-lines; some marginal notes
     by a contemporary hand (also responsible for article 2).
          Spaces left for decorative initials.
          Binding: s. xix-xx. Red goatskin, gold-tooled.

          Written in Italy in the 15th century; early provenance unknown.
     Tag with no. "74" inside front cover. Belonged to Henry Allen (acquired
     ca. 1800; bookplate); Samuel Allen sale (London, 30 Jan. l920, no. 32)
     to Tregaskis; Maggs (Cat. 404, 1921, no. 44). Sotheby sale (London, 8
     April 1925, no. 578) to Dobell (Cat. 62, Dec. 1926, no. 86). Belonged
     to J. T. Adams; his sale (Sotheby's, 7 Dec. 1931, no. 50) to Dobell
     (The Ingatherer, 22 Feb. 1932, no. 3; notice pasted on first front fly-
     leaf). Collection of David Wagstaff (bookplate); gift of Mrs. David
     Wagstaff in 1943.

     secundo folio: ea quae de officijs

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 2, p. 1905, no. 17; Faye and Bond, p. 36,
     no. 170.

     Barbara A. Shailor