Accession number:
PML 199322
Published:
Basilea : [Apud Robertum Winter], [1542]
Credit:
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description:
229, [3] pages (the last page blank) ; 17 cm (8vo)
Notes:
Comprises the third part only of a three-part edition of Aristotle's Ethics issued by Robert Winter in 1542, with this volume containing Plato's Timaeus and Aratus's Phaenomena, both with Cicero's commentary and edited by the scholar Joachim Périon, the entire work presumably bound in three small volumes, each with title page and separately paginated.
Signatures: a-m⁸ n⁴ o-p⁸: 116 leaves.
Printed in Greek and italic type, 26 lines plus headline.
Binding:
Contemporary Roman dark brown morocco gilt (171 x 108 mm), by Niccolò Franzese, an outer border of tan morocco surrounded by a frame of gilt and blind fillets, a curved leafy stamp used to form a centrepiece and for decoration along the border, with other small leaf and flower stamps, spine with title lettered along the spine (to be shelved flat), gilt edges with a dotted gauffered border, partial watermark of a ladder within a circle surmounted by a star in endleaf.
Variant Title:
Ex Platonis Timaeo particula, Ciceronis De universitate libro respondens
Provenance:
Leo S. Olschki (1861-1940; his ownership noted by Fumagalli); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, 10 December 1917, lot 130 (under Cicero); Librairie Vénot, Lyon, sold to; Maurice Burrus (1882-1959), bookplate dated 1937, and his purchase note at end dated 1935; Thierry de Maigret, sale, Paris, 18 November 2008, lot 32; purchased by: T. Kimball Brooker, his sale: Sotheby's (London), Bibliotheca Brookeriana V, 10 Dec. 2024, lot 1009. .
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