Orationes clarorum hominum, vel honoris officiique causa ad principes, vel in funere de virtutibus eorum habitae.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Accademia Veneziana.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin--Early works to 1800.

Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin.

Funeral orations--Early works to 1800.

Funeral orations.

Penn Provenance:

Bibliotheca Nicolspurgi Pauperum Matris dei Scholarum Piarum (inscription)

Baer, E. (bookseller's label)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered leaves, 176, that is, 170 leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves ; 20 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

uet, m.pq m;ti ceit (3) 1559 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : In Academia Veneta, MDLIX [1559]

Notes:

Preface signed: Rhetores Academiae Venetae.

Printed by Niccolò Bevilacqua with types furnished by Paulus Manutius. Cf. Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde (3rd ed.), p. 275-276.

Title page vignette (copper-engraving): device of the Accademia veneziano (Zappella 507) with motto: Io volo al ciel per riposarmi in Dio.

Signatures: *⁴ **⁴ A-2V⁴ (leaves 2*4, P3-P4, and 2V3-2V4, blank).

Woodcut historiated initial.

Leaves 85-88, 153-154 omitted in foliation.

Errata on leaf 2V2v.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy 1 bound in full calf; gold-tooled designs on spine; all edges speckled blue.

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has ms. inscription citing Renouard on verso of front free endpaper.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 bound with: Barozzi, Francesco. Francisci Barocii patritii Veneti Opusculum, in quo vna oratio, & duae quaestiones ... Patauii : E.G.P., MDLX [1560] -- Sadoleto, Jacopo. Duo tum grauissima, tum lepidissima poemata heroica. [Venice] : In Academia Veneta, MDLIX [1559] -- Cavretto, Pietro. De miseria humana. [Venice] : In Academia Veneta, MDLVIII [1558] -- Muret, Marc-Antoine. M. Antonii Mureti Variarum lectionum libri VIII. Venetiis : Ex officina Iordani Zilleti, MDLIX [1559]

Culture Class Collection copy 2 bound in full leather over bevelled-edge wooden boards; blind-stamped images of the four evangelists on front and back covers; three raised bands on spine; partially effaced title in ms. on spine; two metal clasps.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has bookseller label that reads: "E. Baer, Old & new books, 134 Ashford Ct., London, N.W.2" on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has ms. ownership inscription "Biblioth[eca] Nicolspurg[i] Paupe[rum] M[atr]is dei Schola[rum] Pia[rum]" on title page.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 imperfect: leaves 163-176 wanting.

Cited in:

Adams O236

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 717

EDIT 16 CNCE 74

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, p. 275, no. 3

OCLC:

18925405