M. Fabii Victorini rhetoris doctissimi Commentarii in Rhetoricos M. Tullii Ciceronis, antea deminuti, nunc primum, veterum exemplarium ope, simul & studiosorum hominum opera in integrum restituti.
Gaius Marius Victorinus (4th century)
Category
Books
Date
1537
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3196320
Summary
Bibliographic description
84, 83-90, 93-189, [11] p. ; 4to. Running number: 5273. Leaf g5 (pp. 105-106), containing manuscript marginal annotations, has been cut and folded at the head and foot. Provenance: Joseph Juste Scaliger's copy. Manuscript inscriptions on front fly-leaf: "C & P" in pencil [i.e. "Collated & Perfect"] and "1368" (circled in ink). Manuscript inscriptions on title page: "cb 1368", "Ex lib. Roberti Gray colleg: med Lond et Edinburg. socii" [i.e. Robert Gray (fl. 1664-1722), Doctor of Medicine, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London 1664, Fellow 1687], and two illegible words in Greek. Manuscript note on vellum waste at front: "Hic[?] librum possidebat Josephus Scaliger, ... [one word, illegible] videre en ex pag. 105. / Gray. M.D. ...[four characters scribbled over] colleg medi: Lond Socius". Manuscript marginal notes on p. 105-106, written by, according to Robert Gray's note, Joseph Juste Scaliger (1540-1609). Binding: sixteenth or seventeenth-century limp parchment, entirely detached from four sewing supports; yapp edges; stubs of two pairs of leather ties. Vellum waste at front and rear. Manuscript number on front cover: "1578".
Makers and roles
Gaius Marius Victorinus (4th century)