Cicero, Marcus Tullius [pseudo-]: Rhetorica ad C. Herennium.
Add: Pius II, Epistola ad Gregorium Heimburgensem; Epistola ad Johannem comitem de Lupfen.
[Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, ca. 1471-1472]
Fol. a-e8 f-g6. [52] leaves (g6 blank).
ISTC ic00674000; GW 6712; Goff C674; BMC V p. x (IB. 3458); BMC(Ger) p. 210; Bod-inc C-210; CIBN C-463.
Dated [ca. 1471-1472] from the types (CIBN C-463); dated [ca. 1473] by GW, Goff and Bod-inc.
Proctor assigned to [Venice, press of Vindelinus de Spira] (see BMC V p. x).
GIP number: | C60 |
Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.2.29 (see main library entry for this item) |
Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
Note: | In this copy there is no printed text on d5r and the missing text has been supplied in manuscript in a 15th/16th-century hand. |
Provenance: | Anthony Askew (1722-1774), physician and classical scholar: Askew sale, 13 Feb. 1775 onwards; lot 1382 ‘Ciceronis Rhetorica, sine Anni, Loci vel Typographi Indicio’ in Bibliotheca Askeviana … (London: Baker & Leigh, 1775). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter for £3.4.0 according to the annotated British Library copy of the Askew sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 6*(3). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ab.9.14”. |
Binding: | 18th-century mottled calf; covers decorated with a single gold-fillet border; gold tooled-spine; marbled endpapers; sprinkled blue-edged leaves; green silk bookmark. Size: 277 x 203 mm. |
Leaf size: | 271 x 195 mm. |
Annotations: | Frequent marginal annotations in an early hand in quires a and b, all deliberately washed out - to judge from the resulting marginal stains; several interlinear annotations in brown ink in an early hand, a few deliberately washed out. |
Decoration: | None. |
Imperfections: | g2 excised (stub visible); wanting the blank leaf g6. |