Accession number:
PML 16706.2
Published:
[Milan] : [Antonius Zarotus], 1472.
Description:
[28] leaves ; 25.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r: Marci. Tullii. Ciceronis de p[ar]titionibus oratoriis ad Ciceronem filium liber.
Imprint from ISTC. Date from colophon, leaf [4]/4r: Anno Dominico M cccclxxii. Ad laudem Chrsti. O.M. Atq[ue] Viriginis Mariae: Ecce finis partitionum oratoriarum: quas Gabriel fontana placentinus non indiligenter recognovit.
Printed in Zarotus's type 2:111R.
Collation: [1-3⁸ 4⁴]: 28 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Median quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.1 x 16.4 cm.
Binding:
18th-century English gilt-tooled black morocco over paper boards (25.5 x 17.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands.
Variant Title:
Checklist title: De partitionibus oratoriis
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Heavy contemporary marginal notations throughout (faded, but partially visible under UV, with staining). Contemporary manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures.
Provenance:
Unidentified inscriptions (abraded, partially visible under UV): "[Greek] Iste liber est de Hyer[????]," 15th/16th century (leaf [1]/1r of Topica); Charles Spencer (1674-1722), 3rd Earl of Sunderland, shelf mark: C 5: 8 (front endleaf 1 verso), through inheritance to: John Winston Spencer-Churchill (1822-1883), 7th Duke of Marlborough; Bibliotheca Sunderlandia sale, Puttick & Simpson, part II, 17 April 1882, lot 2917 (as a single edition with the Partitiones) purchased by Quaritch: Sunderland Library Blenheim Palace bookplate, purchased April 1882 (front pastedown); Bernard Quaritch, General Catalogue (1887), no. 18600 for £12.12s and Illustrated Catalogue, cat. 268 (1908), no. 667 for £14.14 (amonst other catalogues); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, April 1910.
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