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, 1522, Venetian brown morocco

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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. Catilina. 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)


8vo (157 x 98 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: *4 **8 a-z8 A-M8 N4: 296 leaves (*4 blank). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank). Early manuscript index opposite fol.1, early annotations in different hands.


binding: Contemporary Venetian brown morocco tooled in blind (160 x 100 mm), with author lettered in gilt at head of upper cover, ASCONIUS P, and owner's name at head of lower cover, I.B. RASARIUS, spine with blind hatching, plain edges, stubs from two pairs of ties. (Extremities slightly rubbed, ends of spine repaired.)


provenance: Giovanni Battista Rasario (1517-1578, professor of Greek at Pavia and Venice), name stamped on lower cover and signature "Rasarius" on title-page — Bernardinus Cas[-], signature on title-page — Benedictus Vimercati, signature on title-page — Camillo Meli Lupi, prince of Soragna (1873-1954; ownership detailed in Tammaro de Marinis, Legatura artistica in Italia, 1960, no. 2330) — Christie's, London, sale, 3 May 1995, lot 80. acquisition: Purchased from preceding sale via Martin Breslauer. references: UCLA 216; Cataldi Palau 85; Edit16 3254; Renouard 96/8

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