Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection A–C

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection A–C

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Asconius Pedanius, Expositio in IIII orationes Ciceronis, Venice, Aldus, 1547, later vellum

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Asconius Pedianus, Quintus. Asconii Pediani Expositio in IIII orationes M. Tullii Ciceronis contra C. Verrem, In orationem pro C. Cornelio, In orationem contra C. Antonium, et L. Catilinam, In orationem pro M. Scauro, In orationem contra L. Pisonem, In orationem pro Milone, Adhibita in locos prope innumerabiles correctione, cum scholiis Pauli Manutii, et indice nominum, verborum, & rerum memorabilium. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1547


The spine label indicates that this was bound as volume 11 of a set of Cicero; for other volumes from the set, see lot 337 (the 1546 edition of De philosophia).


8vo (158 x 97 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: *10 A-M8: 106 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page. (Occasional light foxing.)


binding: Old vellum (165 x 105 mm), calf lettering-piece (chipped).


provenance: Library of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, Ilchester (Maryland), and Mount St Alphonsus Redemptorist seminary library, Esopus (New York), library stamps and bookplate, sale, Freemans, Philadelphia, 4-5 April 2013, lot 480. acquisition: Poor Man's Books, Vineland, New Jersey, 2015. references: UCLA 369; Edit16 3255; Renouard 140/3

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