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Orationes.

Accession number
PML 79070-71
Creator
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Object title

Orationes.

Published

Rome impresserunt : Conradus Sweynheym: Arnoldus Pannartzque magistri, .M.CCCC.LXXI [between May and July] 1471.

Description

[358] leaves ; 34.5 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [37]/11r (in verse): Aspicis illustris lector quicunq[ue] libellos / Si cupis artificum nomina nosse: lege. / Aspera ridebis cognomina Teutona: forsan / Mitiget ars musis inscia uerba uirum. / Conradus suueynheym: Arnoldus pa[n]nartzq[ue] maigstri / Rome impresserunt talia multa simul. / Petrus cum fratre Francisco Maximus ambo / Huic operi aptatam contribuere domum. .M.CCCC.LXXI.
Printed in Sweynheym and Pannartz's type 2:115R.
Collation: [1⁶ 2-3¹⁰ 4¹² 5-16¹⁰ 17⁸ 18¹⁰ 19⁸ 20-29¹⁰ 30⁸ 31¹⁰ 32⁸ 33¹⁰ 34-35⁸ 36¹⁰ 37¹²]: 358 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [37]/12 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio
Edited by Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33.4 x 25.7 cm.
PML copy missing 15 leaves, and paper has significant moisture damage, with many leaves repaired; bound in 2 volumes.
Binding
19th-century blind- and gilt-tooled maroon straight-grained morocco over paper boards (34.5 x 27 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves, stuck-on endbands; gilt edges (heavily worn).
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in an Italian hand throughout, more significant in vol. I.
Provenance
Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), Inc. 8, purchased from Ludwig Rosenthal (Munich), April 1929 for RM600, 2 leaves (vol. II, leaves 50 and 59) supplied to Terry-Wilmerding copy, 1 March 1952 (now Dallas, Bridwell Library, 06231), bequeathed to: Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
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Department