Marci Tulli Ciceronis Epistolarum familiarium ad Lentulum proconsulem... [etc]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Marci Tulli Ciceronis Epistolarum familiarium ad Lentulum proconsulem... [etc]
Other titles: Epistolae ad familiares
Classmark: BC Incunabula CIC
Creator(s): Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Additional creator(s): Petri, Philipo di (1472-1482) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: p[er] magistru[m] philipp[um] cu[n]da[m] petri; Filippo di Pietro
Publication city: Venetiis [Venice]
Date(s): M.CCCC.LXXXX.Die.v.Agusti. [5 August 1480]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 151 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/43011
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007742209705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: A¹⁰ a-f⁸ G⁶ g⁶ H⁶ i⁶ k-r⁸ s⁶.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on s6r reads: Venetiis p[er] magistru[m] philipp[um] cu[n]da[m] petri. M.CCCC.LXXXX.Die.v.Agusti.
Page for page reprint of Fivizzano's edition of 1477.
Printed with 35 long lines to a full page.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
Without foliation or pagination.
No headlines or catchwords.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ic00519800.
Indexed in: Copinger-Reichling 1615; GW 6830; BMC V 222.
Features
Large initial T in red ink manuscript at the base of A2r.
Written in red ink manuscript in the outer margin of A2r:.no. 35.
Ink manuscript manicules throughout.
Many ink manuscript marginal annotations have been washed.
Written in pencil manuscript on the front pastedown: "This edition not noticed by the bibliographers. It is a scarce and very valuable one." Dibdin.
The major initial E on A2r is decorated in green, blue and gold with an elaborate interlace design with stylised foliage in the same colours extending along the inner, upper and lower margins. At the base of the leaf is a shield held at either side by winged cherub each holding a cornucopia.
Major initials supplied alternately in red and blue, the blue now much faded.
This copy is wanting leaf A1.
Leaf A2 has a hole damaging six lines of text. A fragment is preserved in a separate envelope.
Some water damage.
Bindings
Binding of full vellum over pasteboard. On the smooth spine is a pared dark red leather lettering piece on which are gold-tooled the words: Ciceron Epistola. Size: 304 x 21mm. Leaf size: 300 x 200mm.
Provenance
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
Access and usage
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