Cicero, Tusculanae quaestiones, Venice, 1491, reused vellum binding

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Tusculanae disputationes. Cum commento. Venice: [Antonius de Strata, de Cremona], 5 December 1491

Chancery folio (287 x 197mm.), 58 leaves, a-i⁶ k⁸, 44-45 lines, roman type, opening of text with pink initial on a gold and coloured ground with leafy marginal extensions, armorial at foot of page of a silver (now oxidised) mounted knight on a red field (slightly shaved at foot), early manuscript annotations, modern binding reusing a vellum leaf from a liturgical manuscript, first leaf with blank section excised, occasional light soiling or browning, a few small wormholes in quires f-h, joints cracked

LITERATURE:

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PROVENANCE:

"Est conventus...", obscured inscription at foot of a2; William Salloch of Ossining, New York, printed booklabel on inside lower cover