Accession number
PML 199050
Creator
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Published
Venetiis : Paulus Manutius Aldi f., MDXL [1540]
Credit line
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's centennial.
Notes
Collation: A-Z⁸ AA-VV⁸ AAA-CCC⁸ : 368 leaves.
Printer's device on title pages and verso of final leaf of each work.
Paolo Manuzio's Scholia has separate t.p.
Publisher statement appears before place of publication and date on title pages.
Each work has its own colophon with preceding register.
Colophon (both works): Apud Aldi filios. Venetiis, M.D. XL. Mense Augusto.
Benedetto Ramberti (approximately 1503-1547) was a secretary of the Venetian Senate, and librarian of the Biblioteca Marciana (1543-1547).
Dedicated by Manuzio to Guillaume Pellicier, Bishop of Montpellier and ambassador of King Francis I to Venice from 1539 to 1542
Printer's device on title pages and verso of final leaf of each work.
Paolo Manuzio's Scholia has separate t.p.
Publisher statement appears before place of publication and date on title pages.
Each work has its own colophon with preceding register.
Colophon (both works): Apud Aldi filios. Venetiis, M.D. XL. Mense Augusto.
Benedetto Ramberti (approximately 1503-1547) was a secretary of the Venetian Senate, and librarian of the Biblioteca Marciana (1543-1547).
Dedicated by Manuzio to Guillaume Pellicier, Bishop of Montpellier and ambassador of King Francis I to Venice from 1539 to 1542
Description
[4], 331, [23], [48] p. ; 21.3 cm (large paper 8vo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Textual contents inscription on two front flyleaves "Antonius Hircio et Caesari" and fully inscribed on recto and verso; annotated throughout and on back flyleaf in the same hand.
Provenance
Benedetto Ramberti (approximately 1503-1547), inscription: "Bened. Rhamberti et amicorum" (title page); T. Kimball Brooker (b. 1939), purchased from Libreria antiquaria Pregliasco, Turin, 2012, sale: Bibliotheca Brookeriana, Sotheby's, New York, 12 October 2023, lot 326.
Binding
Seventeenth-century vellum (215-25 mm), fore-edge flaps, manuscript title on spine; repairs at ends of spine, early labels removed from head and tail.
Classification
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