Marci Tullii Ciceronis Epistolarum familiariu[m] libri sexdecim cu[m] co[m]mento ...
Publisher: Impensis Andree de Asula Bartholomeiq[ue] Alexa[n]drini socior[um
Published: 1484
Place of publication: Venetiis impressi
Language: lat
Number of pages: 532
Subjects: Latin Authors; Correspondence; Statesmen
Other titles: Epistolarum familiarium libri sexdecim cum commento
Work titles: Epistolae ad familiares
Notes: Title and imprint from colophon (leaf H7r), where place of publication follows printer statement.

Edited with commentary by Ubertinus Clericus.

Signatures: a-k⁸ l¹⁰ m⁸ mm⁸ n-t⁸ u¹⁰ x-z⁸ A-E⁸ F-H¹⁰(H10 blank).

Woodcut printer's device printed in red beneath colophon.

Initial spaces.

Text surrounded by 58 lines of commentary.

Register: leaf H10r.

Includes letters and poems by Ubertinus Clericus, Bonus Accursius Pisanus, and Petrus Antonius Platinus.

Hain, 5190*

Proctor, 4699

Goff, C-524

GW, 6838

BM 15th cent., XII, 22 (IB.21605)

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ic00524000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1884.

Purchase; source unknown; 3 January 1919; Inc 4699; Constantius fd.

Purchase; Maggs (Christie's sale 7 July 2004, Wittock Collection); 5 August 2004; 2004-179; $10,187.27 (Amy Lowell fd.).

Unfinished coat of arms added at foot of a3r: within a circular green wreath with red penwork flourishes, per fess arg and sable, a pale arg in base.  Old ms. inscription on bare wood inside front cover (i.e. after original front pastedown had lifted), “Ex Libris Johannis Borgogelli [?]”; recent stamp “0627” in purple on several leaves.

From the library of Michel Wittock.

Imperfect: leaves H8-9 and H10 (blank) wanting.

Some early ms. textual corrections and annotations in Latin (partly trimmed by the binder).

Initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes added in red.

Bound in 19th-century dark blue morocco, gilt, edges gilt over marbling, by Rivière.

Imperfect: leaves a1-2, 8 and blank H10 not present; lower outer corner of p5 torn away with text loss; wormed at beginning and end, affecting a few letters; signature h misbound preceding signature g.

Scattered MS marginalia in Latin in several hands.

Large vinework initial on a3r illuminated in gold, blue, red, and green; 15 smaller illuminated initials in text; other initials added in alternating red and blue.

Contemporary central Italian binding of brown morocco over reverse-bevelled beech boards; covers uniformly tooled in gilt and blind with 2 knotwork medallions joined in a "dumb-bell" design, within concentric frames of repeated tools (stars, scrolls, fronds, and leaves); spine blind-tooled in 5 compartments, each with hatched circles within a diaper pattern; tawed endbands covered with pink and blue thread; edges plain; star-head nails anchoring 4 thongs on front cover; marks of 4 latches on back cover, no longer present; clasps and thongs gone; in case, 35 cm.