Accession number
PML 199051
Creator
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, author.
Published
Venetiis : Apud Aldi filios, Oct. 1540-[Mar. 1541]
Credit line
the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description
3 v. ; 22 cm (8vo)
Notes
Woodcut Aldine device on title page and final verso.
Imprint from colophon. Title page of volume 1 gives the imprint date as M.D.XLI. Imprint information from Adams.
Signatures: v.1: A-2P⁸ 2Q⁴ ; v.2: 2a-2u⁸ 2x¹⁰ 2y-2z⁸ 2A-2L⁸ 2M¹⁰ ; v.3: A⁸ 3b-3z⁸ 3
Imprint from colophon. Title page of volume 1 gives the imprint date as M.D.XLI. Imprint information from Adams.
Signatures: v.1: A-2P⁸ 2Q⁴ ; v.2: 2a-2u⁸ 2x¹⁰ 2y-2z⁸ 2A-2L⁸ 2M¹⁰ ; v.3: A⁸ 3b-3z⁸ 3
Binding
Venetian binding (215 x 130 mm), circa 1540, by the Mendoza Binder for Paolo Manuzio's use for presentation, red goatskin, gilt fillets forming interlaced shaped rectangular borders and extending into panel as undulating lozenge containing large arabesque
Inscriptions/Markings
Title page inscribed: "Ex Lib. L. De La Boue[?] I.V.D."
Variant title
M. Tvllii Ciceronis Orationum uolumen primum [-tertium], in quo multa
Provenance
Provenance markings from Cardinal Benedetto Accolti (armorial binding), L. De La Boue [or La Borde?] I.V.D. (inscription on title page), and A. Callet (stamp on title-page); Théophile Belin (sale, René Boisgirard & Louis Giraud-Badin, 19-20 February 193
Catalog link
Classification
Century
Department