[De oratore].

Accession number:

PML 19376

Author:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Published:

[Subiaco] : [Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz], [before 30 September 1465]

Description:

[110] leaves ; 27.5 x 20 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.

Notes:

Collation: [1-7¹⁰ 8⁸ 9²; 10-12¹⁰]: 110 leaves, leaves [9]/2 and [11]/10 blank. Leaf [9]/2 cut away in most copies, see BMC.
Explicit (leaf [11]/9v): Et sic finis.
Incipit (leaf [1]/1r): [C]ogitanti mihi sepfnumero & memoria vetera repetenti per beati fuisse Q[uinte]...
Paper format: Royal quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.5 x 19 cm
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [9]/2 and [11]/10 (blanks).
Printed in type 1:120R.
The Leipzig copy, now in Moscow, contains annotations dated 30 Sept. 1465 (BMC).
Title from ISTC.

Binding:

19th-century blind-stamped brown morocco in an historical style over paper boards (27.5 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Lortic (father or sons?). Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; all edges gilt.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Illuminated initials (Italian (Rome?)), shell gold with white vine decoration, and incipit rubrics. Annotations: Contemporary notations throughout in several hands, including textual corrections, nota bene marks, and decorative brackets.

Provenance:

Unidentified typed dealer (Olschki?) description in French (rear fly leaf); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Leo Olschki, Aug. 1912.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Illuminations

Annotations (Provenance)

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Retrospective bindings (Binding)

Century:

15th century

Department:

Printed Books