De oratore
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: De oratore
Classmark: BC Incunabula CIC
Creator(s): Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Additional creator(s): Demosthenes (Other); Aeschines (Other); Bonisoli, Ognibene (1412-1474) (Other); Bruni, Leonardo (1369-1444) (Other); Cicero, Quintus Tullius (Other); Squarciafico, Girolamo (Editor); Blavis, Bartholomaeus de (1481-1485) (Printer); Torresanus, Andreas de Asula (1451-1529) (Printer); Thorold, Sir John Hayford (1773-1831) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: per Bartholomeum Alexa[n]drinu[m] & Andrea[m] Asulanu[m]; Andreas Torresanus, de Asula and Bartholomaeus de Blavis, de Alexandria
Publication city: Impressi Venetiis [Venice]
Date(s): Anno natiuitatis dominicæ. M.CCCC.XXXV.III.Nonas Martias [5 March 1485]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 1 unnumbered page, 211 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/43050
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007742039705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a⁴ b-r⁸ s-t¹⁰ u⁸ x⁶ y-z⁸ A⁸ B¹⁰ C-D⁶.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on D5r reads: Vniuersi operis finis per Bartholomeum Alexa[n]drinu[m] & Andrea[m] Asulanu[m] impressi Venetiis: Anno natiuitatis dominicæ. M.CCCC.XXXV.III.Nonas Martias.
Edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus.
Half-title on a2r: Clarissimi et eloquentissimi Rhetoris Omniboni Leoniceni Oratio de laudibus eloquentiae foeliciter incipit.
Printed with 59 lines of commentary surrounding the text.
No headlines or catchwords.
Initial spaces, some with guide-letters.
Woodcut printer's mark in red at the foot of D6r with the monogram BA.
The first leaf is blank.
Contents: Leoniceni oratio de laudibus eloquentiae.--Leoniceni praefatio.--De oratore.--De prefecto oratore ad Brutum.--Topica.--De partitione artis rhetoricae.--De claris oratoribus.--Q. Ciceronis De petitione consulatus.--De optimo genere oratorum.--Aeschines contra Ctesiphontem L. Aretino interprete.--Demosthenes De corona eodem interprete.--Letter of Squarzaficus to Petrus Busonus.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ic00662000.
Indexed in: Goff C-662; Hain 5107; BMC V 307.
Features
Contents written in pencil manuscript, twentieth-century, on the recto of the front flyleaf.
This copy is missing the first blank leaf.
Bindings
Nineteenth-century binding of full pale brown calf over pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are both decorated with a gold-tooled double fillet and a blind-tooled double fillet forming a border. The spine has five raised bands. In the second, third and fourth panels are pared brown leather lettering pieces on which are gold tooled, respectively: M.T. Ciceroni. Libri Oratorii; Æschines et Demosthene Lat.; and Venet. Torres. de Asula MCCCCLXXXV. The first, fifth and sixth panels contain gilt ornamentation of stylised foliage and flowers. The pastedowns are of marbled paper featuring the spot pattern in red, yellow, grey, cream and black. The board edges are gold-tooled with a single zig-zag line and the leaf edges are sprinkled brown. Size: 316 x 220mm. Leaf size: 309 x 210mm.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown, from the library of Syston Park. Underneath, a book label bearing the initials JHT, i.e. Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831).
Small black and white armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front free endpaper. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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