Accession number
PML 21122
Creator
Bonisoli, Ognibene, approximately 1412-1474.
Object title
Omniboni Leoniceni rhetoris clarissimi in Marci Tulli oratorem ad Q. fratre[m] co[m]me[n]tarium.
Published
Vicentiæ : [Johannes de Reno?], Anno Salvatoris .M. .CCCC. .LXXVI. Undecimo Cal[endas] Ian[uarias] [22 December 1476].
Description
[176] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Notes
Title from incipit, leaf b1r: Omniboni Leoniceni rhetoris clarissimi in Marci Tulli oratorem ad Q. fratre[m] co[m]me[n]tarium fœlicter incipit.
Imprint from colophon, leaf v10v: Finis Comme[n]tarii Omniboni Leonicenti Rhetoris præsta[n]tissimi: In M. Tulli Oratorem. Quod Vicentiæ non minus accurate est emendatum: q[uam] diligenter impressum. Anno Salvatoris .M. .CCCC. .LXXVI. Undecimo Cal[endas] Ian[uarias]. Xisto Summo ponti. Atq[ue] Andrea Vendramino Ventetia[rum] Principe optimo.
Printed in Johannes de Reno's type 1:98R.
Printing assigned to Leonardus Achates de Basilea by Hain. Cf. also BMC VII lxiv.
Signatures: a⁶ b-c¹⁰ d⁸ e⁸ f⁶ g¹⁰ h-i⁸ k⁶ l⁸ m⁶n-q⁸ r⁶ [long s]⁶ [long s][long s]⁶ s⁶ ²s⁸ t⁸ v¹⁰.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 column, 44 lines. Initial spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 19.5 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf v10v: Finis Comme[n]tarii Omniboni Leonicenti Rhetoris præsta[n]tissimi: In M. Tulli Oratorem. Quod Vicentiæ non minus accurate est emendatum: q[uam] diligenter impressum. Anno Salvatoris .M. .CCCC. .LXXVI. Undecimo Cal[endas] Ian[uarias]. Xisto Summo ponti. Atq[ue] Andrea Vendramino Ventetia[rum] Principe optimo.
Printed in Johannes de Reno's type 1:98R.
Printing assigned to Leonardus Achates de Basilea by Hain. Cf. also BMC VII lxiv.
Signatures: a⁶ b-c¹⁰ d⁸ e⁸ f⁶ g¹⁰ h-i⁸ k⁶ l⁸ m⁶n-q⁸ r⁶ [long s]⁶ [long s][long s]⁶ s⁶ ²s⁸ t⁸ v¹⁰.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 column, 44 lines. Initial spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 19.5 cm.
Binding
18th-century English gilt-tooled (in a Harleian style) dark blue morocco over paper boards (30.5 x 21 cm.), sewn on 6 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves (front missing) with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Variant title
Title in ISTC: Commentum in Ciceronis Oratorem
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Charles Spencer (1674-1722), 3rd Earl of Sunderland (no shelf mark evidence since front endleaf is missing), through inheritance to: John Winston Spencer-Churchill (1822-1883), 7th Duke of Marlborough; Bibliotheca Sunderlandia sale, Puttick & Simpson, part II, 17 April 1882, lot 2946, purchased by Quaritch: Sunderland Library Blenheim Palace bookplate, purchased April 1882 (front pastedown); George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel and armorial booklabel: 3 stars and fox (front pastedown), notes and price code: [chi omega], purchased Jan. 1892 (front endleaf 1 recto); his sale, Sotheby's, part II, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 3534; J.P. Morgan, Jr., (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Aug. 1920.
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