[Orationes selectae]
Contributors: Moravo, Mattia, printer; Maggio, Giuniano, active 15th century, editor
Publisher: Mathias Moravus
Published: 1480
Place of publication: Naples
Language: lat
Number of pages: 108
Other titles: Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Notes: Title from Catalogue of books printed during the XVth century now in the British Museum

Editor, imprint, and date derived from colophon ([30́] verso): Absolutum opus orationum Marci Tulii Ciceronis: quas selegit Iunianus Maius Eques Neapolitanus & rhetor publicus. Impressit Mathias Morauus ingenio & arte singulari: Neapoli. M.CCC.LXXX. Anno parum salburi. & turcaru[m] incursione infesto. xvii. Nouembris Sub Ferdinando Rege.

Signatures: [1-30́ı] ([30́]=blank; all leaves unsigned).

Chancery folio; 35 lines per page; initial spaces without guide letters.

Catalogue of books printed during the XVth century now in the British Museum, VI, 863

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-550

Incunabula short title catalogue, ic00550000

Catalogued 20170917 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in ca. 18th-/19th-century vellum. Red and black leather spine labels. All edges stained red. Early/contemporary pastedowns and free endpapers. Dealer's description laid on to front pastedown. Early/contemporary marginalia on some leaves. Binding precludes inspection of sewing (oversewn). Leaf dimensions: 288 x 215 mm. Purchased Jan. 1940.