Accession number
PML 17647
Creator
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Object title
Somnium scipionis ex Ciceronis libro de republica excerptum.
Published
[Paris] : [Jean Tréperel], [approximately 1492]
Description
[6] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
The two other Paris editions of this combination are later, according to Bühler, who dated 'about 1495'. This first edition of Balbus's poem, however, most likely appeared in 1492-3: cf.C. Csapodi in Gutenberg Jahrbuch (1965), 122.
Printed in Tréperel's type 4:76G.
Signatures: A⁶: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.7 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
The two other Paris editions of this combination are later, according to Bühler, who dated 'about 1495'. This first edition of Balbus's poem, however, most likely appeared in 1492-3: cf.C. Csapodi in Gutenberg Jahrbuch (1965), 122.
Printed in Tréperel's type 4:76G.
Signatures: A⁶: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.7 cm.
Binding
Modern half parchment, with marbled paper sides, over paper boards (21 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Voynich, June 1911.
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