Owners- De Officiis
December 23, 1857: Sold by Puttick to Molini in London (No. 195).
March 28, 1859: Resold at the G. Libri sale (No. 251), also in London to Sir T. Phillips (No. 16294).
1899: resold at G. Libri sale, in London to Leighton (No. 376)
1914: George Dunn sale in London (II, No. 951) to Maggs Bros.
October 22, 1929: After being in the Albert M. Todd collection in Kalamazoo, it was sold by the Anderson Galleries, in New York, (No. 436) to Dawson Book Shop, Los Angeles.
September 22, 1930: From Dawson it was purchased for the collection of the Hoose Library of Philosophy at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles).
Merithew, Doris. 1958. A Paleographical and Textual Study of a Fifteenth-Century French Manuscript of Cicero's De Officiis. PhD diss. University of Southern California (June 1958).
Provenance De Officiis
Merrithew's dissertation provides us with records of sale for the past 150 years. We know it was sold in London on December 23, 1859, then quickly resold (also in London) on March 28, 1859. Forty years later, it was again resold in London. Fifteen years after that, in 1914, it was sold again in London. This sale resulted in the manuscript being part of the Albert M. Todd collection in Kalamazoo, after which it was re-sold in New York in 1929 to a Los Angeles Bookseller. Albert Todd's bookplate also appears in this item. A year later, the manuscript was purchased for the Hoose Library of Philosophy at USC.
Bookplates De Officiis
De Officiis Bookplate
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De Officiis Bookplate Left
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De Officiis Bookplate Right
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De Officiis Bookplate Notation
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De Officiis Bookplate Blank Page
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