Marii Fbabii [sic] Victorini Rhetoris in rhetoricis Ciceronis liber primus incipit..
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Victorinus, Marius,commentator.
Torti, Battista,active 1481-1536,printer.
Le Coq de Villeray, Pierre François,1703-1778,former owner.StEdNL
Hamilton, Gavin,1703-1767,bookseller.StEdNL
Venetiis : Per Baptistam de Tortis,
M.cccclxxxi.die xxiiii. Ianuarii. [24 January 1481/82]
Title from caption at head verso of leaf a1.
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: a-l⁸ m⁴ A⁸ B-O⁶.
De inventione, sive Rhetorica vetus with commentary by C. Marius Victorinus.
Rhetorica ad Herennium with anonymous commentary.
Printed with 56 lines of commentary surrounding the text.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
Larger initials supplied in red and blue, smaller initials and paragraph marks in red or blue.
ISTC
Goff
GW
BM 15th cent.,
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Armorial bookplate on front pastedown: Ex Lib. D. D. Petri-Francisci Le Coq de Villeray. Bought by the Advocates Library at Gavin Hamilton's auction 13 February 1738 (folio no. 141) for £0-8-6.
18th-century mottled calf with spine with five raised bands and gilt tooled compartments (with loss) and gilt rolled board edges.
Oratory, Ancient
Italy Venice.