[Orationes selectae]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Orationes selectae]
Other titles: Speeches
Classmark: BC Incunabula CIC
Creator(s): Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Additional creator(s): Valdarfer, Christoph (1470-1488) (Printer); Samblanx, Charles de (Binder); Weckesser, Jacques (1860-1923) (Binder); Monod, Henri Charles, 1843-1911 (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: Christophorus Valdarfer; Christophorus Valdarfer
Publication city: [Venice]
Date(s): M.CCCC.LXXI. [1471]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 275 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/43255
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007741889705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Inprint from colophon.
Colophon on [275v] reads: Germani ingenii quis non miretur acumen? Quod uult germanus protinus efficiet: Aspice quam mira libros impresserit arte: Quam subito ueterum tot monumenta dedit Nomine Cristophorus: Valdarfer gentis Ratisponensis gloria magna soli: Nunc ingens Ciceronis opus: causaq[ue] forenses Quas inter patres dixit & in populo, Cernis quam recto: quam emendato ordine struxit Nulla figura oculis gratior esse potest: Hoc autem illustri Venetum perfecit in urbe Praestanti Mauro sub duce Cristophoro: Accipite hunc librum quibus est facundia cordi Qui te Marce col& sponte disertus erit. M.CCCC.LXXI. LODO.CARBO.
The work cannot have been printed later than 9 November 1471 when the Doge Cristoforo Moro died.
Printed with 40 long lines to a full page.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
No signatures, foliation, catchwords or headlines.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ic00542000.
Indexed in: Goff C-542; Hain 5122; BMC V 183.
Features
There is a note in pencil manuscript of the title at the beginning of each oration.
Leaf numbers supplied in pencil manuscript at the top right of rectos.
Major initials supplied in pencil manuscript.
Leaves [2] and [3] (numbered in pencil manuscript 1 and 2 respectively) have been supplied in black ink manuscript.
There are blank leaves bound in after leaf numbers [58] and [147].
Wanting the first blank leaf and leaves [2] and [3].
Bindings
Early twentieth-century French binding of full stamped pigskin over wooden boards by Charles de Samblanx and Jacques Weckesser. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a single fillet border and frames of triple fillets inside which are rectangles containing stylised foliage. At each corner is a flower enclosed in a circle. The central panel is decorated with a blind-tooled design of lozenges and tracery. The upper cover is stamped with the inscription: C. Desamblanx I. Weckesser me ligaverunt ad Bibliothecam Henrici Monod. The pastedowns fixed to the upper and lower boards are of vellum. The book is fastened with two decorated bronze clasps with leather straps. The clasps catch on small metal rods on the upper cover and feature small animal heads. There is some damage to the joint between the spine and the upper cover. The item is preserved in a blue and red patterned cardboard case with wooden inserts to protect the clasps. Size: 312 x 233mm. Leaf size: 300 x 213mm.
Provenance
Stamped on the binding: C. Desamblanx I. Weckesser me ligaverunt ad Bibliothecam Henrici Monod. The book formerly belonged to Henri Charles Monod (1843-1911).
Cutting from a French sale catalogue on the front pastedown.
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
Access
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On our website
Profile: Henri Charles Monod (1843-1911)
Biography of Henri Charles Monod, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.