Bod-Inc: C-266
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Epistolae ad familiares.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistolae ad familiares. Cic. Fam. 1-7; 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. 16-25; 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.
y7v Fabricius Luscinus, Gaius [pseudo-]; Aemilius, Quintus [pseudo-; Gellius, Aulus: Noctes Atticae.] Gel. 3. 8. 8.
y7v [Note that Pyrrhus returned greetings and hostages.] Incipit: ‘Pyrrhus rex consulibus et populo Romano laudes gratiasque scripsit captiuosque omnes quos secum habebat consulibus restituit reddiditque'.
Imprint
Imprint: [Venice: Filippo di Pietro], 1475. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a10] b–y8.
References
ISTC: ic00514000
GW: GW 6816;
Hain: H *5174;
Goff: Goff C‑514;
BMC: BMC XII 15;
Proctor: Pr 4258;
Others: BSB‑Ink C‑329; Rhodes 549; Sheppard 3438.
LCN: 14885943
Copies
Copy number: C-266(1)
Wanting the blank leaf y8.
Some stamped signatures.
Binding: Eighteenth-century French red morocco with gold-tooled spine, decorated with a floral stamp, surrounded by four small stars and two small circles; with turn-ins of alternate zig-zag lines and fern tips; marbled pastedowns; gilt-edged leaves.
Size: 281 × 197 × 40 mm.
Size of leaf: 273 × 180 mm.
Some early marginal notes, and corrections to the text, over erasures. Pen-trials on y7r. Manuscript note by Richard Heber on verso of front endleaf.
On [a1r] a six-line epigraphic initial ‘E' is supplied in gold surrounded by white vine-stems, defined in blue, green, and red, with white dots; in the margin a blue, green, red, and gold staff defined in red, blue, and green, with white dots and with white vine-stem decoration at each end; see Pächt and Alexander II, 111 no. pr. 79. In lower margin, a green wreath containing a blank shield edged in red, and decorated in gold. Other epigraphic initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue.
Provenance: Paul Girardot de Préfond (†after c.1800); green leather label, inscribed: ‘Ex musæo Pauli Girardot de Prefond'; not found in catalogue (1757). Richard Heber (1773-1833); manuscript note; see Catalogue, 6 (1835), lot 1084. Purchased for £2. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 7.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 1.20.
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