Penu Tullianum, decem caellis sive indicibus expromens, quidquid uspiam divitiarum in operibus M. Tullii Ciceronis Guilielmo Gruterianis continetur: collectore Georgio Ludovico Frobenio C.H.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1619
Materials
Place of origin
Hamburg
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3226457
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 365, [3] p. ; fol. Running number: 7826. Imperfect: vol. 5 of 'M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera omnia quae exstant' (Hamburg, 1618-19) only. Interleaved with blank leaves throughout (unused). Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "For Mr. Spinckes" [could this be the nonjuror Nathaniel Spinckes (1654-1727)?]. Manuscript prices on front fly-leaf: "10s" (in pencil, erased) and "14s." (in black ink). Manuscript bookseller's[?] code on rear pastedown: "C: 1[symbol]-4r-4d". Binding: seventeenth-century full mottled calf; sewn on six raised bands; gilt roll patten (very faded) on board edges; rebacked (twentieth-century?) in plain calf; marbled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), author Georg Ludwig Frobenius (1566-1645), editor