IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 240163 accession number: PB 11-2020 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 23 January 2020 updated: Monday 17 April 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Paper, Quarto, 286 x 195 mm, 133 fols. (out of 136 fols., wanting the blank leaves [a1], [r3], [r4]), irregular early foliation in brown ink and modern foliation in pencil Type: Roman BINDING: late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, gold-tooled red morocco over pasteboards, presumably by Maria Wier, spine lettered, edges gilt REFERENCES: ISTC ic00577000; HCR 5257; GW 6926; Bod-inc C-311; BMC V 155; IGI 2888; CIBN C-396 DECORATION Woodcut initial [Q, 8 ll.] painted in gold with white vine scroll on magenta, blue and green ground for incipit of De officiis (fol.[a2]r), with three-sided border consisting of a woodcut frieze with a pattern of interlaced white vine stems on gold, green, magenta and blue ground in upper margin, a green and gold bar in inner margin that continues into lower margin enclosing a drawing of hybrid creatures and shield, vert, a goat or a bull rampant supporting a tree, on blue, green and magenta ground, a capital ‘Z’ in gold. ORNAMENTATION Six gold initials [5-8 ll.] on blue grounds, of which three with green infills and one with triplets of white dots against blue grounds; red penwork initials, some never executed. title: De officiis, Paradoxa Stoicorum, De amicitia, De senectute, Somnium Scipionis NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unidentified arms with initial Z on fol.[a2]r (vert. a red goat or bull rampant supporting a tree); Antoine Marie Pâris d’Illins (1746-1809); sold at auction of Pâris d’Illins’ Bibliotheca Parisiana by James Edwards, bookseller, London, 26 March 1791, lot 70, for £10. 5s; Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), his notes of purchase on recto of front paper endleaf ‘Edward’s sale’ and ‘Apr. 5th 1791’ with associated cost; sold at auction of Wodhull’s library by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 11 January 1886, lot 709, to Quaritch for £15. 10s; Bernard Quaritch, booksellers, cat. 371, Part II: Italy, London, 1887, item 36546; Frank McClean (1837-1904), bookplate inside upper cover; his bequest, 1904. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books collection: Frank McClean STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240163 PEOPLE ------------------- Paris d'Illins, Antoine-Marie Edwards, James (bookseller) Wodhull. Michael McClean, Frank CATEGORIES ------ category: book DATING ------ creation date: 1470 - 1470 creation date earliest: 1470 creation date latest: 1470 CREATORS -------- maker: Cicero maker: Vindelino da Spira maker: Master of the Putti maker: Weir, Maria CITATIONS -------- Fitzwilliam Museum, McClean Bequest : catalogue of the early printed books bequeathed to the museum by Frank McClean, M.A., F.R.S ---