M. Tul. Ciceronis ad M. Brutum & ceteros epistole.

Accession number: 
PML 27214
Author: 
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Published: 
Rome : Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, [before 30 August] 1470.
Description: 
[200] leaves ; 32 x 24.5 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1930.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): M. Tul. Ciceronis ad M. Brutum & ceteros epistole.
Colophon (leaf [20]/9v): Impressu[m] Rome opus In domo Petri & Fra[n]cisci de Maxi[mu]s. iuxta campu[m] Flore. p[rae]sidentibus magistris Co[n]rado Suueynheym & arnoldo panartz. Anno dominici natalis .M.cccc.lxx. S.d.n. d[omi]ni Pauli .II. Veneti Pont. Max. anno .vi. Urbe 7 ecclesia flore[n]te.
Printed in type 2:115R.
Collation: [1-5¹⁰ 6¹² 7-10¹⁰ 11⁸ 12-20¹⁰]: 200 leaves, leaf [20]/10 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
Edited by Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.7 x 23.4 cm., témoin leaf [19]/3.

Binding: 
18th-century French(?) calf over paper boards (32 x 24.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.
Variant Title: 

Epistolae ad Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem, ad Atticum.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, blue large lombards and red minor lombards (northern Italian or Alpine region?), blue lombards with red penwork (leaves [1]/2r and [4]/6r), red paragraph marks and capital strokes. Manuscript guide letters. Annotations: Contemporary notations throughout in a humanist hand and title inscription: .M. Tullij. c. ad Atticu[m] ep[isto]lae (leaf [1]/1r), manuscript catchwords written vertically. Contemporary manuscript foliation and manuscript table of contents in a rather Germanic hand (fly leaf before leaf [1]/1). Manuscript label "EX LIBRO CXXXII" pasted in (front fly leaf recto).

Provenance: 
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from L'Art ancien, Feb. 1930.
Classification: 
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