Tusculanarum quaestionum.

Accession number: 
PML 298
Author: 
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Published: 
Venice : Nicolaus Jenson, 1472.
Description: 
[88] leaves ; 29.5 x 20.5 cm. (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): MARCI TULLII CICERONIS TUSCULANARUM QUAESTIONUM LIBER PRIMUS.
Colophon (leaf [11]/7v): MARCI TULLII CICERONIS TUSCULANARUM QUAESTIONUM FINIS: IMPRESSANRUM VENETIIS PER NICOLAUM JENSON GALLICUM .M.CCCC.LXXII. NICOLAO TRUNO DUCE VENETIARUM INCLYTO.
Printed in types 1:115R and 10:115Gr.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-7⁸ 8⁶ 9-11⁸]: 88 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [11]/8 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto
GW records the format as f⁰; the copies in British collections are all in 4⁰ on large paper.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 X 19.4 cm.

Binding: 
18th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (29.5 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 6 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; yellow edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Italian (Florence?) illuminated initial with foliate border and foliate armorial (leaf [1]/2r), rubricated initials in red filigree decoration. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations sporadic throughout text, those near the beginning washed.

Provenance: 
Bartolini family of Florence, illuminated armorial: red, a gold lion, with bottom-half reversed (leaf [1]/2r); Charles Chauncey (1706-1777), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, 15 April 1790; unidentified shelf mark (Chauncey?): D,2,,20 (front fly leaf recto); Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), signature and purchase inscription, from Edwards's sale, 17 April 1792 for £7.7.2 (first fly leaf recto), Wodhull left his collection to his sister-in-law Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne; J.E. Severne and Wodhull sale, Sotheby's London, 11 January 1886, lot 729 for £6; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 40, 6/2/94 and price code: wl/-/- (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Morocco bindings (Binding)
Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books