M. T. Ciceronis De oratore ad Quintum fratrem dialogi tres, . Iacobi Lodoici Strebaei, Leodegarij à Quercu, & cuiusdam incerti authoris commentariis, itémque scholiis Philippi Melanchthonis qum̀ eruditissimis illustrati.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1555 - 1558
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3038309
Summary
Bibliographic description
304 leaves . 4to.. Shelved and uniform with five other 16th century Paris printed volumes of Cicero. Identified in 1796 inventory: Q 190, price 2s. Christies, 21 June 2004, lot 647.. Provenance: Bookplate: Chirk Castle R. E. Myddelton [i.e. Robert Edward Myddelton (1866-1949)]; crest, signed and dated: W.P.B. 1914.. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf binding; double gilt fillet and blind roll pattern border; gilt roll on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title label. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Philipp Schwarzerd called Melanchthon (1497-1560) Jacques-Louis Strébée (d.c.1550)