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ASCONIUS PEDIANUS, Quintus (9 B.C.-76 A.D.). Commentarii in orationes Ciceronis, edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus. [And other texts.] Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, [between 2 June and 12 September 1477].
Chancery 2° (286 x 198mm). Roman type, initial spaces, most with printed guide-letters. (Repaired tear to m1 crossing a corner of text, 2 marginal repairs to last leaf, small marginal tear to a2, small marginal dampstain to last few leaves.) Modern boards covered in vellum from a 16th-century manuscript lectern book, edges stained blue. Provenance: Ned J. Nakles (sale Christie's New York, 17 April 2000, lot 105).
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 monastic library of St. Gall. The date of this 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; GW 2739; Harvard/Walsh 1697; Goff A-1154.
Chancery 2° (286 x 198mm). Roman type, initial spaces, most with printed guide-letters. (Repaired tear to m1 crossing a corner of text, 2 marginal repairs to last leaf, small marginal tear to a2, small marginal dampstain to last few leaves.) Modern boards covered in vellum from a 16th-century manuscript lectern book, edges stained blue. Provenance: Ned J. Nakles (sale Christie's New York, 17 April 2000, lot 105).
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 monastic library of St. Gall. The date of this 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; GW 2739; Harvard/Walsh 1697; Goff A-1154.
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