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Officia Ciceronis : leerende wat yeghelijck in allen staten behoort te doen / bescreuen int Latijn door den alder welsprekensten orator, Marcum Tullium Ciceronem ; ende nv eerst vertaelt in nederlantscher spraken door Dierick Coornhert.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection LatC C4855 Ep59 1561
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Standardized Title:
- De officiis. Dutch
- Language:
- Dutch
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics, Ancient.
- Ethics--Early works to 1800.
- Ethics.
- Genre:
- Printers' devices (Printing) -- Netherlands -- Haarlem -- 16th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Branden, Franciscus van den (autograph)
- Minsel Carolus van (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered leaves, 142 leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- ocr- ceyt n.en veli (3) 1561 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- Tot Haerlem : By Ian van Zuren, 1561.
- Notes:
- Printer's device on title page.
- Signatures: *⁸ A-S⁸.
- Dutch translation of "De officiis" by D. Coornhert.
- Coornhert's preface contains the claim that the art of printing was first developed in Haarlem not Mainz.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has poem in ms. on front pastedown reading: "Franciscus Van den branden verkoopt liedkens alderhanden en als hij niet [e]indigt zeer fijn dan zal hij meest bedregen zijn" which translates loosely as: J. Franciscus van den Branden sells all kinds of little songs, and if one doesn't turn out very fine, then he will be most disappointed."
- Culture Class Collection copy with inscription beneath poem in different hand reading: Ex Libris Fr. van den Branden.
- Culture Class Collection copy has inscription on back free endpaper: Carolus Van Minsel Me poscessorem[?] genuit Brabantia tellus qua[e] mihi non regis charior ulla fuit. Bierbechensis[?]
- Cited in:
- Bib. Belgica C131
- Geerebaert, A. Lijst van de gedrukte nederlandsche vertalingen, p.102, no. 1
- BM STC Dutch and Flemish, 1470-1600 p. 53
- OCLC:
- 19949330
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