M. Fabii Quinctiliani De institutione oratoria libri duodecim, / cum notis et animadversionibus virorum doctorum, summa cura recogniti et emendati per Petrum Burmannum.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian (c.35-c.100).
Category
Books
Date
1720
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3241677
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ([70], 577, [1]; [1], 578-1178, [50] p.) ; 4to. Uniformly bound and shelved with Quintillian’s Declamationes XIX, 1720. Pencil note on flyleaf in an eighteenth-century hand: 4V 1-11-6. Slip of blank paper, possibly used as a bookmark, between pp. 300-1. Slip of card pasted to back cover of vol. 1 in an eighteenth-century hand – catalogue entry slip? Provenance: Anonymous armorial bookplate [with motto Sola et Unica Virtus]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf over boards; gilt spine tooling; red and green spine labels; gilt roll on board edges; red and brown sprinkled edges. Spine title: Quinctilian De Oratoria …
Makers and roles
Marcus Fabius Quintilian (c.35-c.100)., author Pieter Burman the elder (1668-1741), editor Dodwell, Henry (1641-1711)., author François van Bleyswyck, artist and engraver