Bod-Inc: C-263
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Epistolae ad familiares.
Analysis of Content
[a2r] [Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistolae ad familiares.] Cic. Fam. 1-6; 7. 1-21; 7. 23; 7. 22; 7. 24-33; 8. 1 – 8. 2. 1(pt) with 8. 9. 4-5; 8. 10-17; 9. 1-15; 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.
Imprint
Imprint: [Mondovì: Antonius Mathiae and Baltasar Corderius], 1472. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a–h10 i8 k10 l12 m10 n6].
Types: Types: Gatherings [a] and [k–n] printed in type 110 R (Antonius Mathiae and Baltasar Corderius, type 1, but here overlooked by Pr); gatherings [b–i] printed in type 117 R (Pr 7387, type 1).
References
ISTC: ic00510500
GW: GW 6809;
Hain: H 5170;
Proctor: Pr 7387;
Others: Sheppard 5687.
LCN: 14885834
Copies
Copy number: C-263(1)
Leaf [n6] hinged.
Binding: Nineteenth-century red morocco; bound by H. Walther(?), decorated with gold fillets and with a gold Greek key roll on the turn-in; marbled pastedowns; gilt-edged leaves.
Size: 345 × 238 × 31 mm.
Size of leaf: 333 × 216 mm.
Early marginal notes and pointing hands. On [n6r] a pen-trial in a humanist hand, apparently copying the beginning of the final letter, printed on the facing page.
On [a1r] a seven-line Italian initial ‘E' is supplied in gold on a ground of blue, green, and maroon, decorated with reserved white vine-stems and filigree in yellow and grey. See Pächt and Alexander II, 114 no. pr. 130. In the lower margin is a shield, with a now indistinguishable coat of arms, on a maroon ground, within a wreath of green leaves. Other epigraphic initials are supplied in red or blue. Some rubrics are supplied in an early hand in red or in black ink.
Provenance: Maffeo Pinelli (1735-1785)(?); see Morelli (1787), probably II no. 3781; sale (1789), lot 8682. Possibly Thomas Pownall (1722-1805); purchased at the Pinelli sale for £10. 10. 0, according to the annotated sale catalogue; note by Heber on the recto of the front endleaf: ‘This same ed. I rather believe this identical copy was bought at the Pinelli sale for £10. 10. 0 by Mr. Pownall (vide Sale Catal. 8682)'. Richard Heber (1773-1833); see Catalogue, 6 (1835), lot 1080. Purchased for £3. 11. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 7.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf. 2.8.
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