Hoc in uolumine haec continentur. Marci Tullii Ciceronis Epistolarum familiarium libri sexdecim. Hubertini Clerici Crescentinatis in Ciceronis epistolas commentarii. Martini philetici in quasda[m] ep[isto]las electas co[m]mentarii Georgii Merulae Alexandrini in epistolam ad Lentulu[m] Spintherem accurata interpraetatio. Addita sunt etiam nonnulla alia loca in libro miscaelanaearum: per Angelum Politianum interpraetata. Tabula epistolarum: quota cartha contineantur: & ad quos ac quas scribantur: do nouo addita. Summa cura ac diligentia castigatum.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1496
Materials
Place of origin
Lyon
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3069898
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], CCXXXVI leaves ; fol. Running number: 6953. With some manuscript marginal and interlinear notes (many washed-out), corrections to the text, and underling of text, e.g. on leaves b7-8, c6, d2, d7, h1, o2, r1. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Binding: eighteenth-century full mottled calf (partially delaminated); sewn on six supports; double gilt fillet border; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, title label missing; red sprinkled bookblock edges; comb and swirl pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), author Clericus Crescentinas Hubertinus (ca. 1405-1500), commentator Martino Filetico (ca. 1430-ca. 1490), commentator Georgius Merula (1430/1-1494), commentator Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494), commentator Jean de Vingle (fl. 1493-1512), printer