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M. T. Cyceronis de finibus bonoru[m] [et] maloru[m].

Accession number
PML 85
Creator
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Object title

M. T. Cyceronis de finibus bonoru[m] [et] maloru[m].

Published

[Cologne]: [Ulrich Zel], [about 1471]

Description

[120] leaves ; 21.5 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC. Dated from the state of the types (CIBN); GW, IGI, Goff, IBP and IDL date about 1470.
Printed in Zel's type 1b:106/111G.
Library's copy listed under Division A. $3 in Checklist.
Collation: [1-8⁸ 9⁶ 10-14⁸ 15¹⁰]: 120 leaves, leaf [15]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21 x 14 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [15]/10 (blank).
Binding
18th/19th century English blind-tooled brown calf over paper boards (21.5 x 15 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
De finibus bonorum et malorum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, colored initial and foliate border (leaf [1]/1r), alternating red and blue initials with penwork decoration and paragraph marks (the blue has faded from washing), capital strokes and underlining. Annotations: A few early marginal notations throughout text. Contemporary alpha-numeric quire signatures (letter at bottom center of first leaf, numeral at right).
Provenance
Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823), armorial booklabel (front pastedow), his sale, Evans, 11 May 1824, lot 713, for £12.12.0 to Thorpe; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and purchase notes: No. 85, 28/12/94 (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification
Century
Department