Le pistole di Cicerone ad Attico, fatte volgari da M. Matteo Senarega.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1555
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3007933
Summary
Bibliographic description
399, [1] leaves ; 8vo. Running number: 7054. Provenance: unidentified armorial black oval ink-stamp on front pastedown: two shields with arms (stags on left shield, lion rampant on right shield) and a crown. Eighteenth-century[?] manuscript inscriptions on front pastedown: code "Zs-", old shelfmark "D.3", and reference "Scan. q. Fil. Ill. Ho. 68". Eighteenth-century manuscript price in pencil on front fly-leaf: "-15-". Twentieth-century manuscript code in pencil on title page: "B11". Binding: sixteenth-century[?] limp parchment (stained, rough); sewn on three supports; two pairs of (new) leather ties; irregular blind fillet tooling across spine; manuscript title written along length of spine "Cicerone Epte Ad Attico …" [illegible]. Pencil inscription in the hand of Cecil Clarabut (the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser) on front pastedown: "repaired at Cambridge, 1955".
Makers and roles
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), author Titus Pomponius Atticus (112/109-35/32 BC), author Matteo Senarega (1534-1606), translator Paolo Manuzio (1512-1574), printer Aldi Filii, printer