[Orationes].

Accession number: 
PML 299
Author: 
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Published: 
[Venice] : Adam de Ambergau, 1472.
Description: 
[298] leaves ; 31.5 x 22 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf [30]/9v): Hoc ingens Ciceronis opus: causasq[ue] forenses / Quas inter patres dixit & in populo / Tu quicunq[ue] leges. Ambergau natus ahenis / Impressit formis. Ecce magister Adam. / .M.CCCC.LXXII.
Printed in type 2:116R.
Collation: [1¹² 2-26¹⁰ 27-28⁸ 29-30¹⁰]: 298 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [30]/10 blank. Variant collation in GW.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Edited by Ludovicus Carbo.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.3 x 20 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [30]/10 (blank).

Binding: 
Modern full brown goatskin over heavy paper boards (31.5 x 22 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Italian illuminated white vine initial and border (leaf [1]/2r), blue initials and yellow capital strokes. Annotations: Contemporary manuscript marginal notations only in quires [1] and [5], trimmed, those on [1]/2 washed/bleached.

Provenance: 
Earls of Hopetoun, armorial bookplate with shelf mark: S_11 (front pastedown), collection inherited and sold by John Adrian Louis Hope, 7th earl of Hopetoun (1860-1908); Hopetoun House sale, Sotheby's, 25 Feb. 1889, lot 516; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes by Sydney Cockerell, tipped-in (rear fly leaf); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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