Asconius Pedianus, Quintus: Commentarii in orationes Ciceronis.
Edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus. Add: Georgius Trapezuntius: De artificio Ciceronianae orationis Pro Quinto Ligario. Antonius Luschus: Inquisitio super xi orationes Ciceronis. Sicco Polentonus: Argumenta super xii orationibus et invectivis Ciceronis.
[Venice: Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello, ca. 1498]
Fol. a-e6 f-g4 A-C6 D4 E-G6. [78] leaves.
ISTC ia01155000; GW 2740; Goff A1155; BMC V 474 (IB. 23523); BSB-Ink A-792.
Dated ca. 1492 in GW; dated ca. 1498 by Sack(Freiburg) 313 on the basis of the type.
| GIP number: | A106 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bh.2.12 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Louis-Léon-Félicité , duc de Brancas de Lauraguais (1733-1824): arms in gilt on both covers (Olivier 740); lot 230 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Catalogue d’une collection de livres choisis, provenans du cabinet de M***' (Paris: 1770). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Brancas de Lauraguais sale through his agent, Peter Molini, for 49 livres 4 sous; see Molini’s bill to Hunter (University of Glasgow Library, Hunter Papers H214). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “At.1.9”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century gold-tooled blue goatskin; covers decorated with a wide border formed from a large square-shaped tool (incorporating a circular laurel-leaf motif) repeated within a frame of double fillets; Brancas de Lauraguais on both covers; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; pink silk bookmark. Size: 313 x 215 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 308 x 205 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
