Bod-Inc: C-256
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Epistolae ad familiares.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] [Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistolae ad familiares.] Cic. Fam. 1-5; 6. 1–6. 10; 6. 10; 6. 11-22; 7; 8. 1; 8. 2. 1(pt) with 8. 9. 4-5; 8.10-17; 9. 1-14; 9. 15 with 8. 2. 1-2; 8. 3-5; 2. 9; 8. 6–8. 9. 3 with 9.15.5(pt); 9. 16-26; 10; 11. 1-26; 11. 28; 11. 27; 11. 29; 12; 13. 1-49; 2. 14; 13. 50-79; 14; 15. 1-6; 15. 9; 15. 7-8; 15. 10-21; 16. 5; 16. 7. 16. 1-4; 16. 6; 16. 8-9; 16. 11-12; 16. 10; 16. 15; 16. 14; 16. 13; 16. 16-27. Letter 6. 10 is printed twice.
[m11v] [Verse colophon.] Incipit: ‘Primus in Adriaca formis impressit aenis | Vrbe libros Spira genitus de stirpe Johannes'; 4 hexameters.
Imprint
Imprint: [Venice]: Johannes de Spira, [before 18 Sept.] 1469. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a–c10 d12 e f10 g h10+1 i–l10 m10+1].
Remarks: Collation as GW, except for [ . . . g h10+1 . . .] as BMC.
References
ISTC: ic00504000
GW: GW 6800;
Hain: HCR 5164;
Goff: Goff C‑504;
BMC: BMC V 152;
Proctor: Pr 4016;
Others: Sheppard 3186.
LCN: 14884461
Copies
Copy number: C-256(1)
Binding: Eighteenth-century French red morocco, with gold fillets, the spine decorated with a gold floral tool, surrounded by small stars and dots, the turn-ins with floral and foliate roll; marbled pastedowns; gilt-eged leaves; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 334 × 240 × 35 mm.
Size of leaf: 325 × 221 mm.
Occasional marginal annotations.
Rubric headings are supplied in red. Manuscript guide-letters.
Provenance: Louis César de la Baume le Blanc, duc de La Vallière (1708-1780); no. ‘V 2313'; sale catalogue, lot 2313. Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735-1792); scar of printed label of the sale (1789) [now removed], part III, lot 5563; in the annotated catalogue marked down to Thomas Payne for Fl. 225, the equivalent of £19. 13. 9 according to the exchange rate used by Payne at the sale. Purchased from Payne and Foss (1825), no. 5563, for £26. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1825), 7.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 2.2.
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