Dibdin, Thomas Frognall; Spencer, George John [Oth.]: Bibliotheca Spenceriana: or a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century, and of many valuable first editions, in the library of George John Earl Spencer (Band 1) (London, 1814) [Cicognara, 4650-1]

CICERO.

Part. Orat. 1472.]

379

If, in the absence of positive evidence, we may j udge of the printer
of this volume, he appears to have been a Yenetian artist, and to have
used a type similar to that with which Jenson and the Spiras printed.
This type is larg*e and handsome. The present copy is not free from
stain, and is bound in red morocco.

214. Cicero. Partitiones Oratorije. TVith-

out Place, or Name of Printer. 1472. Quarto.

It is not improbable that the present impression was executed by
the artist who printed the preceding one. There is a great confor-
mity between the tvpes ; and Panzer unites both works in the same
volume, referring only to Maittaire, p. 319, for an account of them.
In the latter authority, we find only the colophon to the present work;
so that the ‘ Topica,’ if executed hy the same printer, has not been
before described. Whether it have the same date with the edition of
the Part. Orat. cannot perhaps be satisfactorily determined.

On the recto of fol. 1, the present impression begins thus :

Marci. Tullii. Ciceronis de ptitionibus oratoriis
ad Ciceronem filium liber.

Collocutores. Cicero. 8c Tullius.

Cicero.

Beneath, there are 22 lines. A full page contains 26 lines. In the
whole, 27 leaves. On the recto of the 27th is the following colophon:

Anno Dominico Mcccclxxii. Ad laudem
Christi. O. M. Atq; Virginis Marite :

Ecce finis partitionum oratoriarum: quas Gabriel
fontana placentinus non indiligenter recognouit.

This is a sound, genuine copy, although not free from a slight stain.
It is ruled with gilt lines; and has, at the end, a star in a shield argent.
Bound in red morocco.