Pro rege deiotaro ad C. Caesar : cum oratio, Francisci Syluii, Bartholomaei Latomi, Iacobi Bugelii, Gerardi Bucoldiani & Antonii Luschi lucubrationibus explicata.

Accession number: 
PML 18682.1
Author: 
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Published: 
Parisiis : Michaelis Vascosani, 1543.
Credit: 
Purchased in 1909.
Description: 
23, [3] p. ; 24 cm (4to)
Binding: 
16th-century French gilt-tooled, dark brown calf, with royal arms of France surrounded by initials "I M D P" within central panel; four disks with stamped portrait of Francis I ("F Rex") and Dido (thought to represent Diane de Poitiers) in corners, all within a foliate ornamental frame; rebacked, with former spine leather preserved in rear pastedown. Gilt and gauffered edge with inscription "Virtus est vitius fugere" (from Horace, Epistles, 1.41: "virtus est vitium fugere"). 4 ties, missing.
Provenance: 
François I and Diane de Poitiers, binding; inscription: "De Mathieu" (title page (abraded) and final leaf of volume); Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Gruel, 1909.
Classification: 
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