B16224
Shelfmark
DDf.2.10
Author
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Collective uniform title
Selections
Title
Ciarissimi & eloquentissimi rhetoris Omniboni Leoniceni: oratio de laudibus eloquentiæ: fliciter incipit.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Venice] :, [Per Bartholomeum Alexdrin & Andre Asulan impressi Venetiis],, [1485].
Physical description
[212] leaves ;, Fo.
Note
Previously By.4.6, Fd.3.2, Fe.1.5, and Df.2.10.
Note
Edited by G. Squarciafico.
Note
Contains Cicero's "De oratore", "De perfecto oratore", "Topica", "Partitiones oratoriae", "De claris oratoribus", "De petitione consulatus", and "De optimo genere oratorum". Also Aeschines' "Against Ctesiphon", and Demosthenes' "De corona", translated (Greek-Latin) by L. Aretino, and a letter ascribed to Aeschines.
Note
Imprint from colophon; printer's device on final leaf.
Note
No title-page; catalogued from opening of work (leaf a2r - first leaf blank).
Note
Ms. annotations (slightly cropped).
Citation/references note
Hain +5107; Proctor 4705; Goff G662; BMC V 307
Provenance
Bookplate of Eton College; Label recording donation to Eton by John Reynolds in 1751.
Provenance
"Bibliotheca Colbertina" in ms., i.e., the Colbert library.
Provenance
Further ownership inscription cut from first leaf?
Binding
?20th century quarter calf and blue paper.
Subject
Oratory, Early works to 1500.
Added entry--name
Bruni, Leonardo
Added entry--name
Bonisoli, Ognibene
Added entry--name
Aeschines
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Demosthenes
Added entry--name
Squarciafico, Girolamo.
Added entry--place
Italy, Venice.
B16224
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