Asconius Pedianus, Quintus. Asconii Paediani Expositio in IIII orationes M. Tullii Cic. contra C. Verrem & in orationem pro Cornelio. In orationem contra C. Antonium, & L. Catilinam. In orationem pro M. Scauro. In orationem contra L. Pisonem. In orationem pro Milone atque harum rerum omnium index. Victorini commentarii in libros M.T.C. de inventione et Georgii Trapezuntii in Orationem pro Q. Ligario. Venice: in the house of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, December 1522
One of the few surviving works of Asconius Pedianus (9BC-76AD), written in the 50s AD and rediscovered by Poggio Bracciolini in 1416 at St Gallen. The binding attribution is made by A. Hobson, Decorated Bookbindings in Renaissance Italy (edited by Edward Potten and Mirjam Foot, forthcoming 2025).
8vo (160 x 95 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: π4 ππ8 a-z8 A-M8 N4: 296 leaves (*4 blank). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank). (Light marginal foxing, final leaf slightly narrower.)
binding: Contemporary Bolognese black morocco gilt (166 x 110 mm), by the Pflug and Ebeleben Binder (second phase, ca. 1543-1557), covers with gilt and blind fillet border with central arabesque cartouche with the author's initials A.P. on upper cover and small flower stamp on lower cover, modern spine tooled in period style, edges gilt and gauffered to a knotwork design. (Skillfully rebacked, central circle on each cover seemingly replaced with matching tooling, upper cover detached, lower joint cracked, later endleaves.)
provenance: Thomas Farmer Baily (1823-1876, armorial bookplate, sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 4-8 December 1876, lot 73, 15s, purchased by) — Nattali & Bond — Charles W. Clark (1871-1933, The Library of Charles W. Clark, San Francisco, 1914, I, p.7). acquisition: Purchased from John Fleming, New York, 1969. references: UCLA 216; Cataldi Palau 85; Edit16 3254; Renouard 96/8
Asconius Pedianus, Quintus. Asconii Paediani Expositio in IIII orationes M. Tullii Cic. contra C. Verrem & in orationem pro Cornelio. In orationem contra C. Antonium, & L. Catilinam. In orationem pro M. Scauro. In orationem contra L. Pisonem. In orationem pro Milone atque harum rerum omnium index. Victorini commentarii in libros M.T.C. de inventione et Georgii Trapezuntii in Orationem pro Q. Ligario. Venice: in the house of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, December 1522
One of the few surviving works of Asconius Pedianus (9BC-76AD), written in the 50s AD and rediscovered by Poggio Bracciolini in 1416 at St Gallen. The binding attribution is made by A. Hobson, Decorated Bookbindings in Renaissance Italy (edited by Edward Potten and Mirjam Foot, forthcoming 2025).
8vo (160 x 95 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: π4 ππ8 a-z8 A-M8 N4: 296 leaves (*4 blank). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank). (Light marginal foxing, final leaf slightly narrower.)
binding: Contemporary Bolognese black morocco gilt (166 x 110 mm), by the Pflug and Ebeleben Binder (second phase, ca. 1543-1557), covers with gilt and blind fillet border with central arabesque cartouche with the author's initials A.P. on upper cover and small flower stamp on lower cover, modern spine tooled in period style, edges gilt and gauffered to a knotwork design. (Skillfully rebacked, central circle on each cover seemingly replaced with matching tooling, upper cover detached, lower joint cracked, later endleaves.)
provenance: Thomas Farmer Baily (1823-1876, armorial bookplate, sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 4-8 December 1876, lot 73, 15s, purchased by) — Nattali & Bond — Charles W. Clark (1871-1933, The Library of Charles W. Clark, San Francisco, 1914, I, p.7). acquisition: Purchased from John Fleming, New York, 1969. references: UCLA 216; Cataldi Palau 85; Edit16 3254; Renouard 96/8
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