Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Title: ORATIONES M. Tullii Ciceronis per Philippú Beroaldúre cognitae ac diligeter correctae. Addita in Calce Oratione aduersus Valerium quae hactenus incognita fuit.
Description: Bologna : Impressit Benedictus Hectoris Bononiensis ea diligentia qua si omnes formandis operibus formandis uterentur, bene cum litteris ageretur, , 13 Apr. 1499 Folio. 200 x 291mm. 271ff. 40 lines per page. Last leaf with woodcut device. Latin text. Slightly trimmed. Light browning, first 20 odd leaves with old scholarly marginalia and ruling, upper hinge cracked, head of title page and first leaf of text with ‘S. Maria del Popolo Rome’ in old ink, old vellum, title in manuscript to spine, some soiling, split to upper compartment, sm. split to middle compartments, minor soiling. ¶ ISTC No.ic00549000. Brunet pp.36 ‘Belle édition contenant tous les discours. Quant à l’Oratio adversus Valerium, qu’on y a donné pour la premiére fois, ce serait, selon Orelli (præfatio ad orationem pro Plancio, page VIII), l’ouvrage d’un philologue français du XVe siècle - Réimpr. Venetiis, per Christoforum de pensis, di XX mensis Decembris MDCCCCV., in-fol.’ ‘Beautiful edition containing all the speeches. As for the Oratio adversus Valerium, which was given there for the first time, it would be, according to Orelli ((preface to the prayer for Plancius, page VIII), the work of a French philologist of the 15th century - Réprint. Venetiis, per Christoforum de pensis, di XX mensis Decembris MDCCCCV., in-fol.’ Goff C549; HC 5129*; Pell 3696; Nice 163; Maignien(Grenoble) 220; Polain(B) 4285; IBE 1655; IGI 2933; IBP 1547; SI 1162; Coll(U) 432; Voull(B) 2787; Hubay(Augsburg) 569; Walsh 3243; Oates 2500; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 559; Bod-inc C-247; Sheppard 5395; Pr 6642; BMC VI 845; BSB-Ink C-386; GW 6771. ‘First and very rare edition of Philippus Beroaldus. The speech Adversus Valerianus at the end is a forgery of Janus Cardo after Johannes Baptista Pius. - First ll.’ Ketterer & Kunst.

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