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Hoc in volumine hæc continenetur. M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolarum familiarium libri sexdecim. Ubertini Clerici crescentinatis in Ciceronis epistolas commentarii. Martini Philetici in quasdam epistolas electas com[m]entarii. Georgii Merulæ Alexandrini in epistolam ad Lentulum Spintherem accurata interpretatio. Addita sunt etiam nonnulla alia loca in libro miscelanearum per Angelum Politianum interpretata

Archive Print Item: BC Incunabula CIC

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Type of record: Book

Title: Hoc in volumine hæc continenetur. M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolarum familiarium libri sexdecim. Ubertini Clerici crescentinatis in Ciceronis epistolas commentarii. Martini Philetici in quasdam epistolas electas com[m]entarii. Georgii Merulæ Alexandrini in epistolam ad Lentulum Spintherem accurata interpretatio. Addita sunt etiam nonnulla alia loca in libro miscelanearum per Angelum Politianum interpretata

Other titles: Epistolae ad familiares

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Incunabula CIC

Creator(s): Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Additional creator(s): Clericus, Ubertinus (Commentator); Filetico, Martino (1430-1490) (Commentator); Merula, Giorgio (1494) (Other); Poliziano, Angelo (1454-1494) (Other); Scinzenzeler, Ulrich (1450-1500?) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)

Publisher: per Magistru[m] Vldericu[m] sinzenzeler; Uldericus Scinzenzeler

Publication city: Impresse Mediolani [Milan]

Date(s): Mcccclxxxxiii. die xxvi. Aprilis. [26 April 1493]

Language: Latin

Size and medium: 232 unnumbered leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/43005

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007742329705181

Collection group(s): Incunabula

Description

Signatures: aa⁴ a-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁶ [rum]⁶ A-D⁶.


Imprint from colophon.


Colophon on D6v reads: Impresse Mediolani per Magistru[m] Vldericu[m] sinzenzeler. Sub an[n]is a natiuitate d[omi]ni iesu christi: Rede[m]ptoris n[ost]ri Mcccclxxxxiii. die xxvi. Aprilis.


Printed with 63 lines of commentary surrounding the text.


Ornamental woodcut initials throughout with a larger initial on leaf a1r.


Woodcut printer's mark on D6v with the monogram VS.


Indexed in: ISTC no. ic00529000.

Features

Occasional marginal annotations and manicules in black ink manuscript.


Many early marginal annotations have been crossed or rubbed out.


The outer corners of the first eight leaves have been mended.


The edges have been cropped.


Some water damage and staining to the leaves.


Bindings


Late eighteenth-century French binding of full mottled calf over pasteboard. The spine is smooth and decorated with eight horizonal bands of gold-tooled triple fillets. In the second panel is a pared red leather lettering piece on which are gold-tooled the words: Epistolar M. Tullii Ciceronis. The pastedowns are of marbled paper featuring the spot pattern in yellow, green, blue and red. The leaf edges are coloured red. Watermarks on the front and back flyleaves featuring a sceptre with two circles beneath, the first containing a heart, and a motif (possibly a hand) at either side. Beneath, the word Fin and the date 1790. Size: 305 x 217mm. Leaf size: 297 x 200mm.

Provenance

Written in black ink manuscript on the title page: [...] de Colegio de la Comp[añi]a de Jhs de Bilbao. This book once belonged to the Jesuit college in Bilbao.


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.

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