Accession number
PML 1313
Creator
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Published
Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri mense Octobri MDXXI [October 1521]
Notes
A reprint of the 1514 ed.
Imprint from colophon on leaf H9r.
Signatures: *-2*⁸a-k⁸ l⁴ m-z⁸ A-G⁸ H¹⁰ (leaf 2*8 blank).
Leaf *4 signed "** iiii"; leaf *7 signed "* ii."
Register on leaf H9r.
Woodcut printer's device on leaves *1r and H10v.
Initial spaces with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks.
Includes index.
Imprint from colophon on leaf H9r.
Signatures: *-2*⁸a-k⁸ l⁴ m-z⁸ A-G⁸ H¹⁰ (leaf 2*8 blank).
Leaf *4 signed "** iiii"; leaf *7 signed "* ii."
Register on leaf H9r.
Woodcut printer's device on leaves *1r and H10v.
Initial spaces with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks.
Includes index.
Description
[16], 245, [1] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)
Provenance
Pömer family of Nuremberg, woodcut bookplate dated about 1521 (front pastedown; see O'Dell, Deutsche und Österreichische Exlibris 1500-1599 im Britischen Museum, no. 306) and purchase (and binding?) inscriptions, 13 and 23 June 1625: "A Kobergro Anno MD XXV idibus Junij, dimidio floreno" (final leaf verso) and "N[???]am colligatori 50d tratestes(?) S. Ioannis baptiste IX Kalendas Julij Anno MD XXV" (rear pastedown); Georg Kloss (1787-1854), bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto), his sale: Sotheby's, 7 May 1835, lot 1072; Samuel Butler, Bishop of Lichfield (1774-1839), his sale: Christie's, part II, 1 June 1840, lot 624; Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased from Payne & Foss, 1840, armorial booklabel (front endleaf 1 recto) and shelfmark: D6 (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1878 by: James Toovey (1814-1893), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), entire library purchased in 1899 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Binding
16th-century Nuremberg blind-rolled calf over wooden boards, with brass edge and corner pieces and 2 clasps. Tooling is quite worn and indistinguishable.
Classification
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