Accession number
PML 289
Creator
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Object title
Epistolarum familiarium.
Published
[Venice] : Nicolaus Jenson, 1471.
Description
[204] leaves ; 29.5 x 21.5 cm. (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): M. TULLII CICERONIS EPISTOLARUM FAMILIARIUM LIBER PRIMUS INCIPIT AD LENTULUM PROCONSULEM.
Colophon (leaf [21]/10r): .M.CCCC.LXXI. OPUS PRAECLARISSIMUM .M.T. CICERONIS EPISTOLARUM FAMILIARIUM A NICOLAO JENSON GALLICO VIVENTIBUS NECNON ET POSTERIS IMPRESSUM FELICITER FINIT.
Printed in type 1:115R.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4⁸ 5-8¹⁰ 9⁸ 10-13¹⁰ 14⁸ 15-21¹⁰]: 204 leaves, leaves [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.6 X 19.5 cm.
Colophon (leaf [21]/10r): .M.CCCC.LXXI. OPUS PRAECLARISSIMUM .M.T. CICERONIS EPISTOLARUM FAMILIARIUM A NICOLAO JENSON GALLICO VIVENTIBUS NECNON ET POSTERIS IMPRESSUM FELICITER FINIT.
Printed in type 1:115R.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4⁸ 5-8¹⁰ 9⁸ 10-13¹⁰ 14⁸ 15-21¹⁰]: 204 leaves, leaves [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.6 X 19.5 cm.
Binding
Modern quarter brown pigskin with paper sides over paper boards (29.5 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Variant title
Epistolae ad familiares
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Northern Italian (Venice?) illuminated initials on green/pink/blue ground, with a foliate border (leaf [1]/2r), minor initials in blue. Annotations: Contemporary manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures, mainly trimmed. Contemporary manuscript text corrections on only two leaves. Contemporary inscription: "sono quattrocento dodici lelettere" (leaf [1]/1r).
Provenance
William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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