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ASCONIUS PEDIANUS, Quintus (9 B.C.-76A.D.). Commentarii in orationes Ciceronis [and other works]. Edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus. Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, [between 2 June and 12 September 1477].
Chancery 2o (286 x 198 mm). Collation: a10 b6 c-g8 (a1r blank, a1v quire register, a2r Asconius Pedianus); 2a8 b10 c8 d6 (2a1r Georgius Trapezuntius, De artificio Ciceronianae orationis); 3a-d10.8 e8 f6 g-l8 m6 (3a1 blank, 3a2r Antonius Luscus, Inquisitio super xi orationes Ciceronis, l6r Siccus Polentonus, Argumenta super xii orationibus et invectivis Ciceronis, m5v editor's letter to Antonius Serachus, Bishop of Corinth, m6r colophon, m6v blank). 184 leaves. 35 lines, register in 3 columns. Types: 8:1091R, 1092R, 110Gk. 2- to 5-line initial spaces, most with printed guide letters. (Repaired tear to m1 crossing a corner of text, small marginal tear to a2, small marginal dampstain to last few leaves, marginal patches to last leaf.) Modern boards covered in vellum from a 16th-century manuscript lectern book, edges stained blue.
FIRST EDITION. The text of Asconius Pedianus' commentaries on Cicero's orations came to light in 1416 among a number of important ancient manuscripts discovered by Poggio Bracciolini at the monastery library of St. Gall.
The date of the edition cannot be earlier than Squarzaficus' dedicatory letter, dated 2 June 1477. Colonia and Manthen used the transitional state of their second roman type (1091R) only until mid-1477. Since this edition uses type in both the first and second states, it must have preceded their Justinus, printed soon after 12 September, which was printed entirely in state 2.
HC 1886*; BMC V, 232 (IB. 20303-04); BSB-Ink A-791; CIBN A-629; GW 2739; Harvard/Walsh 1697; IGI 918; Goff A-1154.
Chancery 2
FIRST EDITION. The text of Asconius Pedianus' commentaries on Cicero's orations came to light in 1416 among a number of important ancient manuscripts discovered by Poggio Bracciolini at the monastery library of St. Gall.
The date of the edition cannot be earlier than Squarzaficus' dedicatory letter, dated 2 June 1477. Colonia and Manthen used the transitional state of their second roman type (109
HC 1886*; BMC V, 232 (IB. 20303-04); BSB-Ink A-791; CIBN A-629; GW 2739; Harvard/Walsh 1697; IGI 918; Goff A-1154.