Accession number
PML 25862-65
Creator
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Object title
Opera.
Published
[Milan] : [Guillaume Le Signerre for Alexander Minutianus], [1498-1499]
Description
4 v. ; 42.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1928.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
First colophon, part I, leaf Y7v: Horum operu[m]:que de arte Cicero conscripsit: & ad hanc usq[ue] aetatem p[er]uenerunt Alexa[n]dri Minutiani oblocatio fuit: redemptura Guielmorum fratru[m]. Librarii oppifices perfeceru[n]t Mediolani .M.CCCC.LXXXX.VII. In legitmo Ludouici. SF. Angli principis sapientissimi ducatu.
Second colophon, part II, leaf ee10v: Impressit Alexander Minutianus nono Kalendas Decembres .1498. in inclyta ciuitate Mediolani. Ludouici Marie Angli ligitimi ducatus anno tertio.
Printed in type 1:111R, with a Greek type.
The parts are dated: I) 1498; II) 23 Nov. 1498; III & IV) [undated]; Preface) [after 15 Oct. 1499].
Signatures, part I, prefatory material (text dated 15. Oct. 1499): [1-2]⁶: 12 leaves, leaves [2]/4-5 signed 2-3 and Scripta rhetorica (1498): A-Q⁸ R¹⁰ S-Y⁸: 178 leaves, leaf Y8 blank; part II, Orationes (23 Nov. 1498): a B-C d-z & [con] [rum] aa-dd⁸ ee¹⁰: 250 leaves; part III, Epistolae (undated): AA-II⁸ KK⁶ LL-XX⁸ YY¹⁰: 176 leaves, leaf AA1 blank; part IV, Scripta philosophica (undated): a-ca-s⁸: 168 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Edited by Alexander Minutianus.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 41 x 28.5 cm.
In four parts I) Scripta rhetorica; II) Orationes; III) Epistolae; IV) Scripta philosophica.
First colophon, part I, leaf Y7v: Horum operu[m]:que de arte Cicero conscripsit: & ad hanc usq[ue] aetatem p[er]uenerunt Alexa[n]dri Minutiani oblocatio fuit: redemptura Guielmorum fratru[m]. Librarii oppifices perfeceru[n]t Mediolani .M.CCCC.LXXXX.VII. In legitmo Ludouici. SF. Angli principis sapientissimi ducatu.
Second colophon, part II, leaf ee10v: Impressit Alexander Minutianus nono Kalendas Decembres .1498. in inclyta ciuitate Mediolani. Ludouici Marie Angli ligitimi ducatus anno tertio.
Printed in type 1:111R, with a Greek type.
The parts are dated: I) 1498; II) 23 Nov. 1498; III & IV) [undated]; Preface) [after 15 Oct. 1499].
Signatures, part I, prefatory material (text dated 15. Oct. 1499): [1-2]⁶: 12 leaves, leaves [2]/4-5 signed 2-3 and Scripta rhetorica (1498): A-Q⁸ R¹⁰ S-Y⁸: 178 leaves, leaf Y8 blank; part II, Orationes (23 Nov. 1498): a B-C d-z & [con] [rum] aa-dd⁸ ee¹⁰: 250 leaves; part III, Epistolae (undated): AA-II⁸ KK⁶ LL-XX⁸ YY¹⁰: 176 leaves, leaf AA1 blank; part IV, Scripta philosophica (undated): a-ca-s⁸: 168 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Edited by Alexander Minutianus.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 41 x 28.5 cm.
In four parts I) Scripta rhetorica; II) Orationes; III) Epistolae; IV) Scripta philosophica.
Binding
20th-century half maroon goatskin, with cloth sides, over heavy paper boards (42.5 x 30 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; marbled edges.
Variant title
Title from part I, leaf A1r: Ciceronis opera : quae nobis benigniora fata reseruarunt i[n] quatuor volumina digesta i[m]pressimus
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations attributed to Willibald Pirckheimer (part II, quire a only).
Provenance
Willibald Pirckheimer (1470-1530), marginal notations (part II, quire a only); series of unidentified shelfmarks: XV. h. 14-17, 89 i 8 1--B--15-18, 170.b.15-18, 202.f.3-6, and A. Case. t. 10 (rear endleaves of each volume, preserved from previous bindings, now bound in upside-down); unidentifiend (Harper?) English sale catalogue description, no. 271; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., July 1928.
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