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December 1522
ASCONIUS Pedianus (9 B.C. - 76 A.D.) EXPOSITIO IN ORATIONES M. TULLII CIC. -VICTORINUS (FL. 4TH CENT. A.D.) Commentarij in libros M.T.C. de inventione. -GEORGIUS Trapezuntius (1396-1486). In Orationem pro Q. Ligurio. Ed. Franciscus Asulanus. Aldine 8° (155 x 95mm). Collation: *4 **8 (title with device 5a, editor's preface to Francesco Contarini, note to the reader, brief quotations on Victorinus from St. Jerome, index); a-z A-M8 N4 (a1r the pseudo-Asconian 5th-century commentary on Cicero's Verrines, g3r Asconius on Cicero's Oratio pro Cornelio, h6v Toga Candida contra C. Antonium et L. Catilinam, i5r Pro M. Scauro, k2v Contra L. Pisonem, l2v Pro Milone, m6v Victorinus, G3v Trapezuntius, N4v device 3). 296 leaves. Italic type 1:80. Initial-spaces with guide-letters.
BINDING: contemporary Venetian blind-tooled deep-brown goatskin, panelled sides, four impressions of a lily tool forming large central ornament, small corner fleurons, top compartment of front cover gilt-lettered ASCONIUS P, on lower cover owner's name I.B. RASARIUS, compartments of spine diapered, (head and foot of spine repaired, ties gone). PROVENANCE: Giambattista Rasario (binding, marginalia), 1517-75, physician, professor of Greek (Venice), of rhetoric (Pavia), comm. on Aristotle and other Greek authors, author of De victoria Christianorum ad Echinadas (1571); Bernardino Casati (16th-century ownership entries); Benedetto Vimercati (17th-century inscription); Johannes Antonius Madius (17th-century inscription), physician.
FIRST ALDINE EDITION. Five of Asconius's commentaries on Cicero's speeches are known, of which only that on Pro Milone is fully preserved. The 16th-century manuscript annotations were presumably but not certainly written by Rasarius, who taught eloquence. They cover Asconius and the beginning of Victorinus, then stop. He also owned the Marciana copy of vol. I of the Aldine Aristotle, Organon, bound in the Greek style (see Sansoviniana 4). FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. Adams A-2054; Murphy 188; R 96:8
ASCONIUS Pedianus (9 B.C. - 76 A.D.) EXPOSITIO IN ORATIONES M. TULLII CIC. -VICTORINUS (FL. 4TH CENT. A.D.) Commentarij in libros M.T.C. de inventione. -GEORGIUS Trapezuntius (1396-1486). In Orationem pro Q. Ligurio. Ed. Franciscus Asulanus. Aldine 8° (155 x 95mm). Collation: *4 **8 (title with device 5a, editor's preface to Francesco Contarini, note to the reader, brief quotations on Victorinus from St. Jerome, index); a-z A-M8 N4 (a1r the pseudo-Asconian 5th-century commentary on Cicero's Verrines, g3r Asconius on Cicero's Oratio pro Cornelio, h6v Toga Candida contra C. Antonium et L. Catilinam, i5r Pro M. Scauro, k2v Contra L. Pisonem, l2v Pro Milone, m6v Victorinus, G3v Trapezuntius, N4v device 3). 296 leaves. Italic type 1:80. Initial-spaces with guide-letters.
BINDING: contemporary Venetian blind-tooled deep-brown goatskin, panelled sides, four impressions of a lily tool forming large central ornament, small corner fleurons, top compartment of front cover gilt-lettered ASCONIUS P, on lower cover owner's name I.B. RASARIUS, compartments of spine diapered, (head and foot of spine repaired, ties gone). PROVENANCE: Giambattista Rasario (binding, marginalia), 1517-75, physician, professor of Greek (Venice), of rhetoric (Pavia), comm. on Aristotle and other Greek authors, author of De victoria Christianorum ad Echinadas (1571); Bernardino Casati (16th-century ownership entries); Benedetto Vimercati (17th-century inscription); Johannes Antonius Madius (17th-century inscription), physician.
FIRST ALDINE EDITION. Five of Asconius's commentaries on Cicero's speeches are known, of which only that on Pro Milone is fully preserved. The 16th-century manuscript annotations were presumably but not certainly written by Rasarius, who taught eloquence. They cover Asconius and the beginning of Victorinus, then stop. He also owned the Marciana copy of vol. I of the Aldine Aristotle, Organon, bound in the Greek style (see Sansoviniana 4). FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. Adams A-2054; Murphy 188; R 96:8