Accession number
PML 15420
Creator
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Object title
De legibus.
Published
[Venice] : [Printer of Ausonius], [about 1472]
Description
[32] leaves ; 29 x 20 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): M. TULLII CICERONIS DE LEGIBUS DIALOGUS LIBRI PRIMI.
Printed in type 1:115R.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2⁸ 3⁶ 4⁸]: 32 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Probably issued with De Officiis (GW 6927).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 19.8 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Printed in type 1:115R.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2⁸ 3⁶ 4⁸]: 32 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Probably issued with De Officiis (GW 6927).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 19.8 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Binding
19th-century gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (29 x 20 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Schaefer, with the arms of Cortina. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Joachim Gomez de la Cortina, Marqués de Morante (1808-1868), Bibliotheca Cortina bookplate (front pastedown), armorial binding, and shelf mark: II B 8 11 (spine label), also a bibliographic note in Spanish recording the price of 600 Spanish reals, and that the book came from Germany by way of one Señor Alava (rear fly leaf recto); his sale, Paris, 21 Feb. 1872, lot 202; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased in 1907.
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