M.T. Ciceronis Opera. Ex Petri Victorii codicibus maxima ex parte descripta, viri docti et in recensendis authoris huius scriptis cauti & perdiligentis: quem nos industria, quanta potuimus, co[n]sequuti, quasdam orationes redintegratas, tres libros De legibus multo quàm antea meliores, & reliquias de commentariis qui de Republica inscripti erant, magno labore collectas vndique, descriptásque libris, vobis exhibemus. Eiusdem Victorii explicationes suarum in Ciceronem castigationum. Index rerum et verborum.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1538 (1539-1538)
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3022757
Summary
Bibliographic description
5 v. ; fol. Running number: 4753. Bound in 2 vols. Provenance: manuscript inscription at head of title page of tom. 1 and 3: "Domus soctis Iesu Hui" [i.e. from the school of the Society of Jesus in Huy, Belgium] and number "19". Occasional manuscript marginal annotations and underscoring of text, e.g. p. 3-91 in t. 2. Binding: eighteenth-century mottled calf; double gilt fillet border; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spines, with gilt title/vol. number on brown leather label and imprint stamped directly onto spines. Burnished red edges.
Makers and roles
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Robert Estienne (1503-1559), editor Pietro Vettori (1499-1585), editor