Epistolae familiares. Pauli Manutij annotationes breves in margine adscriptae. Eiusdem scholia …
Epistolae familiares. Pauli Manutij annotationes breves in margine adscriptae. Eiusdem scholia …
Epistolae familiares. Pauli Manutij annotationes breves in margine adscriptae. Eiusdem scholia …

CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Epistolae familiares. Pauli Manutij annotationes breves in margine adscriptae. Eiusdem scholia. Verba Graeca Latinis expressa. Dionysij Lambini Monstr….

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CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Epistolae familiares. Pauli Manutij annotationes breves in margine adscriptae. Eiusdem scholia. Verba Graeca Latinis expressa. Dionysij Lambini Monstroliensis viri doctiss. emendationes, & earum rationes. Guilielmi Canteri locorum aliquot explicationes & emendationes, nunc primum editae. Antwerp: Christophe Plantin. 1568.

8vo. 17th-century calf, gilt frames and corner-pieces to boards, spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly to one, edges sprinkled red; pp. [16], 528, woodcut Plantin device to title, woodcut initials; front hinge cracked but holding well, extremities and boards a little rubbed; two small paper-flaws to title (far from printed surface), a few marks, otherwise a very good, clean copy; early ownership inscription “Sum Aemilij Cooz” to title.

Third Plantin edition, very rare, of Cicero’s Epistulae ad Familiares edited by Paolo Manuzio, the first to include the annotations and corrections by Denis Lambin and Willem Canter, the latter printed here for the first time.

Christophe Plantin’s first edition of the Epistulae ad Familiares (Cicero’s letters to over ninety friends and relations) appeared in 1565, based on Paolo Manuzio’s influential Venetian editions, especially that of 1558. A sextodecimo decimo edition followed in 1567. The present 1568 printing largely reproduces the 1565 text, but with two significant additions: the corrections of Denis Lambin (Latinised as Dionysius Lambinus, 1520-1572), most likely drawn from a contemporary French edition (pp. 496-519), and the corrections and commentary of Willem Canter (Gulielmus Canterus, 1542-1575), printed here for the first time (pp. 520-528).

In a letter dated July 1568, Plantin wrote to an unknown correspondent that he was printing “the works of Cicero in octavo, reviewed after Lambin, of which the Epistolae familiares will be completed, God willing, within three weeks” (Correspondance de C. Plantin, I, no. 143).

Very rare: OCLC records only two copies in the US (Arizona State and Folger); Library Hub adds two copies in the UK (Oxford and Eton College).

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