Officior[um].

Accession number: 
PML 78934
Author: 
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Published: 
[Mainz] : Johannes fust Mogu[n]tinus civis ... Petri ...pueri mei, Anno .M.cccc.lxv [1465].
Description: 
[88] leaves ; 25 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Gift of William S. Glazier, 1984.
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
PML copy on vellum.
PML 78934 leaf dimensions: 23.6 x 16.3 cm
PML 78934 made up of mixed sheets from Fust and Schoeffer's editions of 1465 (58 leaves: [2-3]⁸, [4]/2-7, [6]⁸, [8]⁸, [9]1-3.6-8, [10]/1-3.6-8, [11]⁸) and 1466 (30 leaves: [1]⁸, [4]/1.8, [5]⁸, [7]⁸, [9]/4.5, and [10]4.5).

Binding: 
18th-century (1713-1736) gilt-tooled red goatskin over paper boards (24.5 x 17.4 cm), bound by Étienne Boyet in Vienna (after 1713), with gilt armorial and monograms of Prince Eugene of Savoy (red morocco denoted History books in the Savoy library). Decorative endbands; gilt-tooled board edges and turn-ins; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Officiorum

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary French (Savoyard?) illuminated initial and ornamental border (leaf [1]/1r), with red and blue lombards, running headlines, and paragraph marks and yellow capital strokes. Annotations: Inscription (signature?): "Buaiy S" (leaf [11]/5v).

Provenance: 
[?Louis Malet (1441?-1516), some books in d'Ufré's library were inherited through his wife from Malet]; Claude d'Urfé (1501-1558), coat of arms (leaf [1]/1r); Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736), armorial binding, passed at his death to his niece: Princess Victoria of Savoy (1683-1763), who sold the Savoyard library (1737) to: Emperor Charles VI (1685-1740) and entered: Vienna, Imperial Library, sold as a duplicate ca. 1800 to: James Edwards (1757-1816), bookseller in London, who sold to: Marquis Tacconi, Naples (see De Ricci, Catalogue, 84.76); Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823), his sale, Evans, part I, 11 May 1824, lot 910, for £43.1.0 to: Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (1785-1848), armorial bookplate (front pastedown), note on verso of front fly, "Bought at Sir M. Syke's sale, 1824," Powis sale, Sotheby's (London), 20 March 1923, lot 67 and Sotheby's (London), 31 Jan. 1955, lot 107; William S. Glazier (1907-1962), booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of William S. Glazier, 1984.
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