M. T. Ciceronis De fato liber, / Petri Rami Regij eloquentiae & philosophiae professoris praelectionibus explicatus. Ad Carolum Lotharingum Cardinalem.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1554
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3008112
Summary
Bibliographic description
27 [i.e. 29], [1] leaves ; 4to. Running number: 4812. Imperfect: wanting final blank leaf. Wormed throughout, but not affecting text. With 14 blank fly-leaves bound-in at front and 100 blnak fly-leaves bound-in at end. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on front pastedown: "C. & P." [i.e. "collated and perfect" mark of the bibliophile Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725)] and "2176". Manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. With manuscript marginal annotations in sixteenth-century hand and underscoring of text on leaves 2-5. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; double gilt fillet border, with gilt escallop cornerpiece stamps; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725): crest, a sheldrake holding in its beak an escallop, on wreath; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine divided into six panels, the second with gilt title on brown goatskin label, the others with acorn and floral stamps, the sixth panel with gilt lettering 'RAMI[?]...' [the rest worn away]. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Petrus Ramus (1515-1572), editor