In hoc uolumine haec continentur. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium lib. IIII. M. T. Ciceronis De inuentione lib. II. Eiusdem De oratore ad Quintum fratrem lib. III. Eiusdem De claris oratoribus, qui dicitur Brutus: lib. I. Eiusdem Orator ad Brutum lib. I. Eiusdem Topica ad Trebatium lib. I. Eiusdem Oratoriae partitiones lib. I. Eiusdem De optimo genere oratorum praefatio quaedam.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1514
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3007919
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], 245, [3] leaves ; 4to. Running number: 7005. Infrequent manuscript marginal annotations in a small sixteenth-century hand on leaves m3r-r7r. Provenance: ownership inscription at head of title page, scribbled over in ink and illegible. Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Binding: Rome, ca. 1515-27, bound by the Cardinals' Shop in Rome which was active in the 1520s and possibly earlier but which did not survive the Sack of 1527; dark brown goatskin over thin pasteboards; sewn onto three double sewing supports; covers blind-tooled to a rectangular panel design with triple fillet frames, the middle frame filled with repeated blind impressions of a tool of two interlinked C's, a gilt worm-like wavy tool at the outer and inner corners, with a gilt fleuron in the centre, the gold-tooling all very faded; traces of four pairs of ties, two on fore-edge, one at head and one at foot of the covers; three low double bands on spine; covers repaired and spine rebacked in brown goatskin (twentieth-century); bookblock edges coloured dark blue with red sprinkling; original[?] pastedowns, new fly-leaves. On the Cardinals' Shop, see Anthony Hobson, 'Two Early Sixteenth-Century Binder's Shops in Rome', De Libris Compactis Miscellanea, ed. G. Colin, Aubel/Brussels 1984, pp. 89-98.
Makers and roles
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), author possibly Cornificius, rhetor, author Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), editor Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), printer and publisher Andreas Torresanus de Asula (1451-1529), printer