Cicero, Marcus TulliusDe inventione (ed. Omnibonus Leonicenus), et al.
Analysis of content:
Part I.
a1r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De inventione. ‘Rhetoricae ueteris liber primus [–ultimus]'. Edited by Omnibonus Leonicenus. Cic. Inv.
g5v [Verse colophon.] Incipit: ‘Emendata manu sunt exemplaria docta | Omniboni, quem dat utraque lingua partem'; 1 elegiac distich.
Part II.
A2r Cicero, Marcus Tullius [pseudo-]: Rhetorica ad C. Herennium. ‘Rhetoricae nouorum liber primus [–quartus]'. Rhet. Her.
Imprint:
Venice: Filippo di Pietro, 1479/80. Folio.
In two parts, dated: (I) 1479; (II) 28 Feb. 1479/29 Feb. 1480.
Collation:
Part I: a66+1 c–e8 f g6; part II: A–F8. An extra leaf, signed bb, was printed for insertion between b1 and b2 to supply a lacuna of two pages after l. 20 of b1v.
C-223(1)
Copy
The leaf g6 is blank, not as BMC.
Wanting the extra leaf signed bb of De inventione.
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century Italian half red morocco over marbled paper boards; marbled pastedowns; bound for Boutourlin.
Size: 284 × 196 × 21 mm.
Size of leaf: 276 × 180 mm.
Some early marginal annotations.
Guide letters supplied in black ink. Foliation in pencil.
Provenance: Florence, Bibliotheca Publica (i.e. Dominicans, S. Marcus); stamp on a1r; see Oates 2222.
‘MD'; monogram on a1r; see Oates 2222.
Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); shelfmark: see Catalogue (1831), no. 237; sale: Catalogue (1840), lot 947.
Purchased for £0. 15. 0; see Books Purchased (1841), 10.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 2.29.