Bod-Inc: C-260
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 – 9. 26. 3 with 10. 12. 3-5; 10. 13 – 10. 15. 1; 10. 3. 1 – 10. 12. 3 with 9. 26. 3; 10. 1 – 3.1; 10. 15. 1 – 10.35; 11. 1-26; 11. 28; 11. 27; 11. 29; 12; 13. 1-49; 2. 14; 13. 50-77; 12. 29; 12. 21; 13. 78-9; 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.
[B6r] [Verse colophon.] Incipit: ‘Emilianus auctor Fulginas et fratres una | Ignenio (i.e. ingenio) prestante uiri, Numeister et auctor'; 6 hexameters.
Imprint
Imprint: Foligno: Johann Neumeister and Aemilianus de Orfinis, [c.1471]. Folio and 4°.
Collation
Collation: [a–z10 A B8].
References
ISTC: ic00507000
GW: GW 6804;
Hain: HR 5160; R 1177;
Goff: Goff C‑507;
BMC: BMC VI 599;
Proctor: Pr 5722;
Others: BSB‑Ink C‑327; Sheppard 4763.
LCN: 14885900
Copies
Copy number: C-260(1)
Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [B7-8].
Sheet [o2.9] has been folded incorrectly, with the result that the two leaves have changed places: [o2r] begins 10. 12. 3 and [o2v] ends 10. 15. 1; [o9r] begins 9. 26. 3 and [o9v] ends 10. 3. 1.
Binding: Eighteenth-century calf with gold-tooled spine with foliate stamps; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 297 × 214 × 55 mm.
Size of leaf: 287 × 196 mm.
Faded or washed out early marginal and interlinear notes, some correcting the text; some underlining in text. Bibliographical note by Gerard Meerman on verso of front endleaf. Manuscript foliation.
Provenance: Gerard Meerman (1722-1771). Peter Burman Secundus (1713/14-1778); gift from Meerman, 1760; inscription on verso of front endleaf: ‘Eruditissimo ac celeberrimo viro Petro Burmanno secundo hocce typographicæ antiquitatis monumentum in grati animi testimonium perpetuamque amicitiæ tesseram oblatum voluit Gerardus Meerman, prid. Kalend. Jul. MDCCLX'; sale (27 Sept. 1779), p. 14, lot 386, sold for fl. 106: 5. Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735-1792); printed label of the sale (1789), part III lot 5565; in the annotated catalogue marked down to Payne for fl. 135. Purchased through Payne in 1790 for £11. 16. 0; see Books Purchased (1790), 6.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N 2.13.
Copy number: C-260(2)
Binding: Spanish, 1955, brown morocco, by Brugalla: see Pollard and Ehrman, The Distribution of Books by Catalogue from the Invention of Printing to A.D 1800: Based on Material in the Broxbourne Library (Cambridge, 1965), 284, no. 8.
Size: 300 × 226 × 60 mm.
Size of leaf: 293 × 213 mm.
Some early marginal notes and textual corrections in sixteenth-century brown ink. Text corrected, with some words heavily erased and corrections provided in black ink.
Partial rubrication: some initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red ink, the initials occasionally having pen-work in the area defined by the letter and decoration in black ink; others are supplied in black ink or in green.
Provenance: Johannes Gasparis (sixteenth century); partly legible inscription on front endleaf: ‘Ex libris Joannis Gasparis . . .' Albert Ehrman (1890-1969); armorial book-plate; purchased from Martin Breslauer(?) for £425; sale catalogue entry and carbon copy. Presented in 1978 by John Ehrman.
SHELFMARK: Broxb. 19.1.
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