M. Fabii Quintiliani, oratoris eloquentissimi, Institutionum oratoriarum libri XII, . singulari cum studio tum iudicio doctissimorum virorum ad fidem vetustissimorum codicum recogniti ac restituti. Eiusdem Declamationum liber. Additae sunt Petri Mosellani viri eruditi annotationes in septem libros priores, & Ioachimi Camerarii in primu[m] & secundu[m]. Quibus & accessit doctissimus Co[m]mentarius Antonii Pini Portodemaei in tertium, nunc recêns editus.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian (c.35-c.100).
Category
Books
Date
1538
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3038739
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],224,34[i.e.32],33,[17] leaves . fol.. Previous shelfmark: L.4.8. manuscript price in pencil on front fly-leaf: "2-2-0". Identified in 1796 inventory: F 287, price 2s. Christies, 21 June 2004, lot 626.. Provenance: Bookplate: Chirk Castle R. E. Myddelton [i.e. Robert Edward Myddelton (1866-1949)]; crest, signed and dated: W.P.B. 1914.. Binding: Seventeenth-century calf binding; triple gilt fillet border; gilt roll on board edges and turn-ins; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title label. All edges gilt, marbling discernable underneath. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Marcus Fabius Quintilian (c.35-c.100). Camerarius, Joachim Oronce Fine (1494-1555) Antonius Pinus (fl.16th century) Peter Schade (1493-1524) Michel de Vascosan (d.c.1577)