Accession number
PML 975
Creator
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Object title
Officior[um].
Published
[Mainz] : Johannes fust Mogu[n]tinus civis ... Petri [de gernshem], Anno .M.cccc.lxv [1465].
Description
[88] leaves ; 27 cm. (folio)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Notes
Title from incipit, in red (leaf [1]/1r): Marcii Tulii Ciceronis Arpinatis. [con]sulisq[ue] romani. ac oratoru[m] maximii. Ad M Tuliu[m] Ciceronem filiu[m] suu[m]. Officior[um] liber incipit.
Imprint from colophon, in red (leaf [11]/7v): Presens Marci tulii clarissimu[m] opus. Johannes fust Mogu[n]tinus civis, no[n] atrame[n]to, plumali ca[n]na neq[ue] aerea. Sed arte quadam perpulcra, Petri manu pueri mei feliciter effeci finitum. Anno .M.cccc.lxv.
Printed in Fust & Schoeffer's types 5:118G (headings and colophon) and 3:91G, leaded (text).
Collation: [1-11⁸]: 88 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Incipit (leaf [1]/1r) and colophon (leaf [11]/7v) printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.6 x 17.5 cm
PML copy on vellum.
Pinholes in upper and lower outer margins.
Imprint from colophon, in red (leaf [11]/7v): Presens Marci tulii clarissimu[m] opus. Johannes fust Mogu[n]tinus civis, no[n] atrame[n]to, plumali ca[n]na neq[ue] aerea. Sed arte quadam perpulcra, Petri manu pueri mei feliciter effeci finitum. Anno .M.cccc.lxv.
Printed in Fust & Schoeffer's types 5:118G (headings and colophon) and 3:91G, leaded (text).
Collation: [1-11⁸]: 88 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Incipit (leaf [1]/1r) and colophon (leaf [11]/7v) printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.6 x 17.5 cm
PML copy on vellum.
Pinholes in upper and lower outer margins.
Binding
Modern full maroon goatskin over stiff boards (26.5 x 18.8 cm) on three bands. Plain paper pastedowns and parchment fly leaves. In clamshell box.
Variant title
Officiorum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Mainz illuminated initials and borders (leaves [1]/1r, [7]/4r, and [10]/4v) by the Fust Master (also illuminated ChL 1b/PML 12, Gutenberg Bible), with alternating red and blue lombards, some with marginal flourishing (leaves [3]/1-3.6-8 and [4]/1r), paragraph marks, and capital strokes; gold tituli (leaves [1]/1r, [7]/4r, and [10]/4v). Annotations: Marginal notes, corrections, and manicules. Contemporary alpha-numeric quire signatures in bottom right corner, mainly trimmed; quires numbered in bottom center, mainly trimmed.
Provenance
Franz Trau (1842-1905) of Vienna, book stamp (leaf [1]/1r); Trau sale, Gilhofer & Ranschburg (Vienna), 27 Oct. 1905, lot 229, to Bernard Quaritch; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Quaritch, 30 June 1906.
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