Bod-Inc: C-258
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Epistolae ad familiares (ed. Johannes Andreas de Bussis).
Analysis of Content
[a2r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistolae ad familiares. Edited by Johannes Andreas [de Bussis], Bishop of Aleria, as stated in the colophon. Cic. Fam. 1-7; 8. 1 – 8. 2. 1(pt) with 8. 9. 4-5; 2. 12; 8. 10-17; 9. 1-15; 8. 2. 1-2; 8. 3-5; 2. 9; 8. 6 – 8. 9. 3; 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.
[s6r] [Colophon.]
[s6r] [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Aspicis, illustris lector, quicunque libellos | Si cupis artificum nomina nosse lege'; 4 elegiac distichs. See Walther, Initia, 1610.
Imprint
Imprint: Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, [after 4 Nov. 1469]. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a–d10 e8 f6 g–k10 l8 m6 n–q10 r8 s6].
References
ISTC: ic00505500
GW: GW 6802;
Hain: HCR 5163;
BMC: BMC IV 8;
Proctor: Pr 3305;
Others: Sheppard 2612.
LCN: 14884483
Copies
Copy number: C-258(1)
Wanting leaves [q2] and [r1], and the blank leaf [a1].
Leaf [q9] misbound as [r1].
Binding: Eighteenth-century French red morocco, each cover decorated with triple gold fillets; the spine decorated with a gold floral tool surrounded by small stars and dots; the turn-ins with a floral and foliate roll; marbled pastedowns, gilt-eged leaves; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 333 × 238 × 48 mm.
Size of leaf: 325 × 217 mm.
Early marginal notes, many apparently in the hand of Rolandus Marchetti Fasanini; most notes extract key words or phrases; a note on [h5v] comments on the distribution of the text; pointing hands. Manuscript corrections in the text, over erasures. Many corrections of erroneously supplied initials. Early pen-trials and scribbles on [s6v].
On [a2r] a seven-line Roman epigraphic initial ‘E' is supplied in gold surrounded by white vine-stems defined in blue, green, and red/maroon, and further decorated with gold dots, within black pen-work flower petals; all extending into the margin; in the lower margin, a green wreath left blank. See Pächt and Alexander II, 106 no. pr. 7. Other epigraphic initials are supplied in red or blue. Running book numbers are supplied in early black ink.
Provenance: Bernardus de Marchettis Fasaninis (fifteenth/sixteenth century); inscription on [a2r]: ‘Bernardi d' Marche[ttis]'. Rolandus Marchetti Fasanini (sixteenth century); inscription on [s6v]:‘Ego Rolandus filius domini Joannis Marchetti Fasaninis hunc librum posideo'. Louis César de la Baume le Blanc, duc de La Vallière (1708-1780); no. ‘V 2312'; sale catalogue, lot 2312. Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735-1792); printed label of the sale (1789), III no. 5564; in the annotated catalogue marked down to Payne for Fl. 230. Purchased through Payne for £20. 2. 6; see Books Purchased (1790), 6.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N 2.10.
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