Accession number
PML 16707
Creator
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Object title
Orationes.
Published
[Milan] : [Antonius Zarotus], [about 1478]
Description
[310] leaves ; 39 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zarotus's type 5:111R.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-t⁸ u⁶; A¹⁰ B-Q⁸ R-S¹⁰: 310 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Copy of the Rome edition by Konrad Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 1471 (Goff C-541).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 38.2 x 26.5 cm.
Printed in Zarotus's type 5:111R.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-t⁸ u⁶; A¹⁰ B-Q⁸ R-S¹⁰: 310 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Copy of the Rome edition by Konrad Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 1471 (Goff C-541).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 38.2 x 26.5 cm.
Binding
19th-century English blind- and gilt-tooled full brown goatskin over heav paper boards (39 x 29 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Riviere & Son. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary illumination, gilt initials on red/blue/green ground with penwork decoration; primary initial with white vine decoration and border, armorials in wreaths with white vine surrounding (leaf a1r). Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in several hands, sporadically throughout text, mainly highlighting keywords or subjects.
Provenance
Galeffi family (of Pescia) and unidienfied family (silver, 3 black roses over banded black and silver), armorials (leaf a1r); Bernard Quaritch, cat. 268, no. 668; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, April 1910.
Classification
Catalog link
Century
Department