De finibus bono[rum] et malo[rum].

Accession number: 
PML 16327
Author: 
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Published: 
Venice : [Vindelinus de Spira, for] Johannes de Colonia, [not after 9 November] 1471.
Description: 
[93] leaves ; 28.5 x 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [2]/2r): M.T. Ciceronis de finibus bono[rum] & malo[rum]. L. primus.
Colophon (leaf [13]/4r): .M.Tulii Ciceronis De finibus bonorum & maloru[m] liber quintus desinit. Venetiis. M.CCCC.LXXI. Chirstophoro Mauro Duce. Joanne ex Colonia Agrippinensi sumptu[m] ministrante Impressum.
Dated from the colophon, before the death of the Doge C. Moro, 9 Nov. 1471 (Hillard).
Collation: [1² 2-5⁸ 6⁶; 7⁸ 8⁶(+1*: beata vita); 9-12⁸ 13⁶]: 93 leaves, leaves [2]/1, [6]/6, [13]/5-6 blank. NB: in Pembroke-Scheide copy, the stub of singleton 8/1* is preserved between 8/5 and 6.
Paper format: Royal quarto
Edited by Georgius Merula.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.2 x 19.6 cm.
PML copy with leaf [2]/1 (blank) bound before [1]/1.

Binding: 
18th-century quarter vellum with new paper sides over stiff paper boards (28.5 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
[Wodhull inscriptions on front pastedown and fly leaf, PML copy?: de Bure, Bibliographie Instructive, no. 2439; Louis-Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), purchased Claude Gros de Boze's incunabula after his 1753 sale that never happened; Gaignat sale, de Bure, Supplement a la Bibliographie instructive, 1769, no. 1500, in red morocco; Louis César, duc de La Vallière (1708-1780); his sale, Paris, part I/2, 1783, no. 2259 for fr. 250-]; Maffeo Pinelli (1736-1785); Bibliotheca Pinelliana sale, James Edwards, 2 March 1789, lot 6341 for £6-15--; Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), purchase inscription: £2: 2s: -d, 8 March 1790 (front fly leaf recto), Wodhull left his collection to his sister-in-law Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne; J.E. Severne and Wodhull sale, Sotheby's London, 11 January 1886, lot 707 for £7; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Oct. 1909.
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