Accession number:
PML 3826
Published:
Venetiis : [Antonius de Strata, de Cremona], Anno .M.cccc.lxxxxi. mensis dece[m]bris die quinta [5 December 1491].
Description:
[58] leaves ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Notes:
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): MARCI TULLII CICERONIS TUSCULANARUM QUAESTIONUM LIBER PRIMUS.
Colophon (leaf k4v): Marci Tullii Ciecro[n]is [sic] Tusculana[rum] quaestionu[m] finis. Imressa[rum] Venetiis. Anno .M.cccc.lxxxxi. mensis dece[m]bris die quinta.
Printed in types 3*:84R and 4:105R.
Collation: a-i⁶ k⁴: 58 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.2 x 21 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank).
Binding:
Modern quarter brown goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (31.5 x 22 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
[Previously bound with Eyb, Margarita poetica (Venice: Rubeus, 1493),PML 15416/ChL 954;] unidentified shelf mark label: II 6 6 D (front pastedown of PML 15416, preserved from former binding); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased (from Canessa?) in 1907.
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