Orationes.

Accession number: 
PML 36901
Author: 
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Published: 
Rome impresserunt : Conradus Sweynheym: Arnoldus Pannartzque magistri, .M.CCCC.LXXI [between May and July] 1471.
Description: 
[358] leaves ; 41 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1941.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [37]/11r (in verse): Aspicis illustris lector quicunq[ue] libellos / Si cupis artificum nomina nosse: lege. / Aspera ridebis cognomina Teutona: forsan / Mitiget ars musis inscia uerba uirum. / Conradus suueynheym: Arnoldus pa[n]nartzq[ue] maigstri / Rome impresserunt talia multa simul. / Petrus cum fratre Francisco Maximus ambo / Huic operi aptatam contribuere domum. .M.CCCC.LXXI.
Printed in Sweynheym and Pannartz's type 2:115R.
Collation: [1⁶ 2-3¹⁰ 4¹² 5-16¹⁰ 17⁸ 18¹⁰ 19⁸ 20-29¹⁰ 30⁸ 31¹⁰ 32⁸ 33¹⁰ 34-35⁸ 36¹⁰ 37¹²]: 358 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [37]/12 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio
Edited by Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39.5 x 28 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [37]/12 (blanks).

Binding: 
Early 19th-century English blind- and gilt-tooled red straight-grained morocco over paper boards (41 x 30 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Brown paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper and vellum endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in an Italian hand, throughout, often extensive. Contemporary foliation.

Provenance: 
Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823), armorial booklabel (front pastedown) and inscription: "Cal b IR 159 MMS Sledmere" (front endleaf 1 verso) and bibliographic notes, dated 1806 (front endleaf 2 recto), his sale, Evans, part I, 11 May 1824, lot 916 for £26 to Pettigrew for: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), armorial bookplate with shelfmark: VI V.b.17 (front pastedown), Bibliotheca Sussexiana sale, Evans, 1844-46; Robert Stayner Holford (1808-1892), shelfmark: J .8, inherited by his son: Sir George Lindsay Holford (1860-1926), sold a large portion privately to A.S.W. Rosenbach in 1925, and the remainder through, Sotheby's London, The Holford Library, 5 parts, 1927-28 (not in Holford sale); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Rosenbach & Co., Sept. 1941.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Morocco bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books