Accession number:
PML 16227.2
Published:
[Venice] : [Filippo di Pietro], 1475.
Description:
[58] leaves ; 28.5 x 20 cm (fol.)
Notes:
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): .M.T.Ciceronis Oratoris Clarissimi Rhetoricae veteris Liber Primus foeliciter incipit.
Colophon (leaf g8r): Marci Tulii Ciceronis Oratoris Clarissimi Rhetoricorum Veterum Liber Ultimus Feliciter Explicit. .M.CCCC.LXXV.
Printed in type 2:113R.
Collation: a¹⁰ b-g⁸: 58 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Edited by Omnibonus Leonicenus.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.7 x 19 cm.
Binding:
19th-century gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (28.5 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Charles Smith. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Rhetorica vetus
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), Syston Park, bookplate and monogram booklabel (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1884, lot 371; Henry White, armorial bookplate (front fly leaf recto); his sale, James Tregaskis, 1902; J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Leo Olschki, Sept. 1909.
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