Accession number:
PML 21864
Published:
[Venice] : Christophorus Valdarfer, 1470.
Description:
[72] leaves ; 30 x 20.5 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1922.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf [8]/8v): ANNO. DO. M.CCCC.LXX. Si quem oratoris perfecti audire iuvabit / Materiam: fons est hoc ciceronis opus. / Hic tersum eloquium velut attica lingua refulg[et]: / Cristophori impressus hic liber arte fuit. / Cui stirps Valdarfer: patria estq[ue] ratispona tellus. / Hunc emat: orator qui velit esse: librum.
Printed in type 1:110R.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3⁸ 4¹⁰ 5⁸ 6¹⁰ 7-8⁸]: 72 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 19.5 cm.
Binding:
18th-century English gilt-tooled calf over heavy paper boards (30 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary manuscript incipit (leaf [1]/1r). No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), inscription (first paper fly leaf), purchased from Edwards for £3.3.2, 21 Oct. 1800, 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 714, sold for £4.4.0; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Dec. 1922.
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