CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.). De officiis. Commentary by Petrus Marsus. -Laelius, sive de amicitia. Commentary by Omnibonus Leonicenus. -Cato maior, sive de senectute. Commentary by Martinus Phileticus. -Paradoxa Stoicorum. Venice: Philippus Pincius, 16 July 1493.

Chancery folio (310 x 213 mm). Collation: a-t⁸ u-z⁶.170 leaves. Type: 8:81R, 11:113R. Initial spaces with guide letters. (Leaf a1 soiled and a bit frayed with perforated stamp affecting letters on verso, dampstaining throughout, sometimes heavy, some leaves browned, marginal stains.) Late 18th- or early19th-century paper-backed pasteboards (joints a bit worn). Provenance: D. Andrea Fossa (early ownership signature on title); occasional early marginalia throughout; manuscript sonnet verses on final blank verso in a humanist hand; The Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church (bookplate, perforated stamp on title, accession number on lower margin of a2).

Philippus Pincius was born in Mantua and active as a printer in Venice between 1491 and the first decades of Cinquecento, his production was mostly devoted to Latin classics, among others Sallustius, Ovidius, Virgilius, and above all Cicero. This edition appeared in July 1493 and contains a collection of Ciceronian works: the De officiis, De amicitia, De senectute, and Paradoxa. The texts are supplemented with authoritative commentaries, composed by notable humanists such as Pietro Marso, Omnibonus Leonicenus, and Martino Filetico, a disciple of Guarino Veronese. Pincius reprinted this Ciceronian collection in 1496 and 1500.

Goff C607; HC 5279*; GfT 2210; Pell 3758; Pr 5298; BMC V, 495; BSB-Ink C-370; GW 6962; ISTC ic00607000.