[Institutiones oratoriae].

Accession number:

PML 244

Author:

Quintilian.

Published:

Rome : [Johannes Philippus de Lignamine], 3 August 1470.

Description:

[282] leaves ; (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf [30]/8r): Marci Fabii Quintiliani institutionum oratoriarum ad Victorium Marcellum liber .xii. et ultimus explicit. Absolutus Rome in via pape prope sanctum Marcum. Anno salutis .M.CCCC.Lxx. die vero tertia mensis Augusti. Paulo Veneto papa .ii. florente. anno eius .vi.
Printed in type 1:125R.
Collation: [1⁴; 2-7¹⁰ 8⁸ 9-11¹⁰ 12-13⁸ 14⁶+1 15-24¹⁰ 25⁸ 26-29¹⁰ 30⁸]: 282 leaves.
Paper format: Median folio
Edited by J.A. Campanus.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33.4 x 21 cm.

Binding:

18th/19th-century gilt-stamped black straight-grained morocco (34.5 x 22 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Roger Payne (note on second front fly leaf: Bound by R. Payne). Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary Italian white vine illumination with gilt initials and flourished byzants and armorial in bottom margin (leaf [2]/1r) with major initials illuminated in a small/tight white vine style on scalloped blue ground; rubrication of minor initials unrealized. Red scroll flourish around colophon and line drawing in the shape of a glider (leaf [30]/8r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Unidentified armorial: silver (oxidized) duck on a blue shield, 15th century (leaf [2]/1r); Payne & Foss, inscription, 1823 (second front fly leaf recto); John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), monogram booklabel and Syston Park armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes (front fly leaf recto); his sale, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1884, lot 1665; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) price code: d/-/- +___ (front fly leaf verso); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Illuminations

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books