Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Orationes Philippicae.
Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1474.
4to. a10 b-c8 d6 e-h8 I8 <K k>8 l8. [88] leaves, the first two and the last blank.
ISTC ic00555000; Goff C555; BMC V 230; Bod-inc C-252; GW 6795.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.2.13 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Provenance: | Edward Harley (1689-1741), Lord Harley; from 1724 2nd Earl of Oxford: see Binding. Thomas Osborne (d. 1767), bookseller: purchased all the Harleian printed books; top corner of second front flyleaf cut off - as in many other Harleian volumes - probably by Osborne to remove his earlier price (cf. J.B. Oldham, 'Shrewsbury School bindings', p.114); signs of an erased price in pencil adjacent to excision; no. 5043 in Osborne’s 'Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae', vol. 1 (London: 1743) and no. 1054 in his 'Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae', vol. 3 (London: 1744). William Strahan (18th century): armorial bookplate on front pastedown “Will Strahan Esqr” with motto “Forward” (Franks 28330). Anthony Askew (1722-1774), physician and classical scholar: Askew sale, 13 Feb. 1775 onwards; lot 1384 in 'Bibliotheca Askeviana …' (London: Baker & Leigh, 1775). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Askew sale for £11.0.0 according to the annotated copy of the Askew sale catalogue in Cambridge University Library; price confirmed in the partially annotated copy of the Askew sale catalogue in University of Glasgow Library (shelfmark Mu36-c.8). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “A.5.18”. |
| Binding: | England, 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco; bound for Lord Harley by Christopher Chapman. On both covers double fillets form three concentric frames: within the outer frame is an ornamental roll (Nixon, ‘Harleian bindings’, pl. 14, Chapman roll 2), within the middle frame is a floral roll (Nixon, ‘Harleian bindings’, pl. 13) and within the inner frame is an ornamental roll (Nixon, ‘Harleian bindings’, pl. 14, Chapman roll 1). Both covers have a lozenge-shaped centre-piece, made up of several individual tools (including Nixon, ‘Harleian bindings’, pl. 15, Chapman nos 5, 14a, and 14b). Rebacked in the 19th/20th century; original spine covering not preserved or recorded. The turn-ins are decorated with Chapman roll 2; marbled endpapers; flyleaves have watermark of a crown above the letters “G R”. Size: 292 x 206 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 285 x 202 mm. |
| Annotations: | Marginal annotations in a humanist hand in brown and in red ink in gatherings a and b; heading of each oratio underlined in red; occasional underlining of text in red ink and occasional “nota” marks in red or in brown ink. |
| Decoration: | Initials supplied in red or blue throughout; capital strokes in red in gathering b. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf a1. |
