[Epistolae ad familiares].

Accession number: 
PML 19591
Author: 
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Published: 
Venice : Johannes de Spira, [before 18 September] 1469.
Description: 
[136] leaves 34 x 23 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf [14]/8r): Hesperie quondam Germanus quosq[ue] libellos / Abstulit: En plures ipse daturus adest. / Nanq[ue] vir ingenio mirandus & arte Joannes / Exscribi docuit clarius ere libros. / Spira favet Venetis: quarto nam mense peregit / Hoc tercentenum bis Ciceronis opus. M.CCCC.LXVIII.
Printed in type 1:110R.
Collation: [1¹² 2¹⁰ 3⁶ 4-13¹⁰ 14⁸]: 136 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Spaces in text left for the addition of Greek in manuscript.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.7 x 22.3 cm., trimmed.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).

Binding: 
Modern full brown goatskin blind- and gilt-tooled in a pastiche of an early style over paper boards (34 x 23 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Clarke and Bedford. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Illuminated initial and border with flowers and fruit, northern Italian (or maybe German) (leaf [1]/2r); rubricated, alternating red and blue lombards with Italian vertical-line penwork, headlines and rubrics in red/pink ink in a German (Bavarian) hand; Greek text added by hand. Annotations: A few marginal and interlinear notations, including ones noting misplaced texts (f. 58r). Contemporary manuscript notations, abraded but not visible under UV (leaf [1]/2v). Modern pencil notations correcting Greek and translating misplaced texts notes (Huth?).

Provenance: 
Unidentified armorial: Or, a goat rampant sable (leaf [1]/2r); Henry Huth (1815-1878) and Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Ex Museo Huthii booklabel (front pastedown); Huth sale, Sotheby's, 15 Nov. 1911, lot 1612; Bernard Quaritch, collation statement by Mr. Truett, 29 June 1912 (rear pastedown) Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Quaritch, Dec. 1912.
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