CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.). Epistolae ad familiares . With commentary by Hubertinus, clericus Crescentinas. Venice: Baptista de Tortis, 24 May 1482. Chancery 2 o (304 x 203 mm). Collation: a-d 8 e 6 f-y 8 z 1 0 A-O 8 (a1r blank, a1v dedicatory letter from Bonus Accursius Pisanus to Johannes Franciscus Turrianus, a2r letter from Hubertinus clericus to Bonus Accursius Pisanus, a2v commentator's preface, a3v blank, a4r text with commentary, O5r colophon, O5v commentator's afterword addressed to Bonus Accursius Pisanus, O6r poems by the commentator and by Petrus Antonius Platinus, O7r register, O8 blank). 240 leaves. Text with commentary surround, 39-57 lines commentary. Types: 1:114R (text), 114Gk (a few words), 2:78R (commentary). 2- to 7-line initial spaces. Nine large flourished initials in parti-colored red and blue, remaining initials, paragraph marks, and headlines (book numbers) supplied in alternating red and blue. A few impressions of bearer type (gothic and roman capitals, on C2, G6, H3, etc.) (Upper edges slightly dust-soiled, edges of first and last few quires scorched(?), edges of first few leaves fraying, some worming at front and back, occasional mostly marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary quarter blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, tooled brass catches, vellum quire guards, ink lettering on lower edges (rebacked, the leather on covers restored and decorated with blind stamps in the style of a German 15th-century binding, lacking clasps), modern folding cloth case. Provenance : contemporary marginalia, later marginal chapter numbers -- Dinkel, Carmelites (effaced 18th-century inscription on a2r, sum FF Carmeli Dinckelii ). The second of three editions of Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares printed by Baptista de Tortis. Hubertinus' commentary and accompanying material were first published separately by Bonus Accursius in Milan (Hain 5461, conventionally dated to ca. 1480, but predating Hermannus Liechtenstein's Vicenza edition of 27 February 1479). This edition is the third to incorporate text and commentary. Baptista de Tortis, a native of Calabria who set up a press in Venice in 1471, devoted the first two years of his long and productive printing career entirely to the publication of classical texts. By 1488 he had turned to the lucrative market of the legal profession, and during the next two decades he produced a series of legal texts with glosses, which were printed in large press-runs and distributed throughout Europe (hence the origin of the Spanish term "letra de tortis" for gothic type). H 5189*; BSB-Ink C-334; GW 6836; Harvard/Walsh 1917; IGI 2835; Goff C-523.
CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.). Epistolae ad familiares . With commentary by Hubertinus, clericus Crescentinas. Venice: Baptista de Tortis, 24 May 1482. Chancery 2 o (304 x 203 mm). Collation: a-d 8 e 6 f-y 8 z 1 0 A-O 8 (a1r blank, a1v dedicatory letter from Bonus Accursius Pisanus to Johannes Franciscus Turrianus, a2r letter from Hubertinus clericus to Bonus Accursius Pisanus, a2v commentator's preface, a3v blank, a4r text with commentary, O5r colophon, O5v commentator's afterword addressed to Bonus Accursius Pisanus, O6r poems by the commentator and by Petrus Antonius Platinus, O7r register, O8 blank). 240 leaves. Text with commentary surround, 39-57 lines commentary. Types: 1:114R (text), 114Gk (a few words), 2:78R (commentary). 2- to 7-line initial spaces. Nine large flourished initials in parti-colored red and blue, remaining initials, paragraph marks, and headlines (book numbers) supplied in alternating red and blue. A few impressions of bearer type (gothic and roman capitals, on C2, G6, H3, etc.) (Upper edges slightly dust-soiled, edges of first and last few quires scorched(?), edges of first few leaves fraying, some worming at front and back, occasional mostly marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary quarter blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, tooled brass catches, vellum quire guards, ink lettering on lower edges (rebacked, the leather on covers restored and decorated with blind stamps in the style of a German 15th-century binding, lacking clasps), modern folding cloth case. Provenance : contemporary marginalia, later marginal chapter numbers -- Dinkel, Carmelites (effaced 18th-century inscription on a2r, sum FF Carmeli Dinckelii ). The second of three editions of Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares printed by Baptista de Tortis. Hubertinus' commentary and accompanying material were first published separately by Bonus Accursius in Milan (Hain 5461, conventionally dated to ca. 1480, but predating Hermannus Liechtenstein's Vicenza edition of 27 February 1479). This edition is the third to incorporate text and commentary. Baptista de Tortis, a native of Calabria who set up a press in Venice in 1471, devoted the first two years of his long and productive printing career entirely to the publication of classical texts. By 1488 he had turned to the lucrative market of the legal profession, and during the next two decades he produced a series of legal texts with glosses, which were printed in large press-runs and distributed throughout Europe (hence the origin of the Spanish term "letra de tortis" for gothic type). H 5189*; BSB-Ink C-334; GW 6836; Harvard/Walsh 1917; IGI 2835; Goff C-523.
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