Folio (313 x 218mm). Collation: a-t⁶. 114 leaves. Types 2:80R, 5:106R, and occasional Greek type. 62 lines of commentary surrounding the text, shoulder notes, woodcut capitals. (Some worming to gutter margins at front and lower margins towards end, some intermittent pale dampstaining.)  Contemporary (original?) Italian limp pasteboards, manuscript title to spine, remnants of original alum-tawed slit thongs (a little wear to joints at bands, some soiling and staining, text block detached from binding). Provenance: The Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church (bookplate, perforated stamp and accession number on title, perforated stamp on lower margin of f1).

In the Tusculanae, Cicero shows the Roman cultural framework and compares Rome to Greece. The commentary is by Filippo Beroaldo (1453-1505), the Italian humanist and preeminent scholar from Bologna, famous above all as a commentator on Apuleius. Reprinted from the edition of Benedictus Hectoris, 27 July 1496.

Goff C641; H 5324*; Pell 3785; Oates 2084; Bod-inc C-298; Sheppard 4177; Pr 5343; BMC V, 434; BSB-Ink C-409; GW 6900; ISTC ic00641000.