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Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad fratrem, [edited by Dionysius Lambinus], 1567

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Voet reference number954
Museum Plantin-Moretus
Author Marcus Tullius CICERO
Title page transcription[Within woodcut-compartment:] † M. TVLLII □ CICERONIS ‖ EPISTOLÆ, ‖ AD ATTICVM, ‖ AD M. BRVTVM, ‖ AD Q. FRA- ‖ TREM. ‖ Cum correctionibus Manutij. ‖ Verba Græca latinè reddita. ‖ In easdem doctiss. viri Dionysii Lambini ‖ annotationes. ‖ ⊕ 19 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‡ Ex officina Christoph. ‖ Plantini CIƆ. IƆ.LXVII.
Collation16mo [87]: A-Z⁸, a-z⁸, Aa⁸; pages 1-645, [646-752] (Errors: 23 for 237, 343 for 342, 468 for 368, 373 for 372, 482 for 382, 186 for 386, 059 for 509, 32 for 532; numeration difficult to check)
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Pages[1]: Title [2]: Blank [3-6]: Ad Carolum Pisaurium Leonardi...filium,...Pauli Manutii, Aldi F. in epistolas Ciceronis ad Atticum praefatio…(Venice, 1558; italic type) 7-645: Text [646-680]: Verba Graeca Latinis expressa (italic type, greek type) [681-749]: Dionysii Lambini annotatiunculae seu emendationum rationes...(italic type, parts in roman type and greek type) [750]: ANTVERPIAE, EXCVDEBAT CHRI- ‖ STOPHORVS PLANTINVS, AN. ‖ M.D.LXVII. PRID. KAL. IVN [751-752]: Blank
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CopiesMuseum Plantin-Moretus- A 483KBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeGhent University LibraryHeidelberg University LibraryLeiden University Libraries
Bibliographical referencesRuelens-de Backer, page 69 (1567, no. 8).
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Note 1Contains: Epistolarum ad T. Pomponium Atticum libri XVI (pages 7-511); T. Pomponii Attici vita per Cornelium Nepotem (515-526); Epistolarum ad M. Iunium Brutum liber I (527-565); Epistolarum ad Q. fratrem libri III (566-640); Ad Octavium epistola, quam Ciceronis esse, vix credimus (640-645); Lexicon of the Greek words and expressions used by Cicero in his letters and rendered into Latin ([646-680]); Annotations of Dionysius Lambinus ([681-749]).
Note 2Very likely a reprint of a French edition (with the notes of D. Lambinus), itself a re-edition of a Venice-publication by Paulus Manutius, 1558 or later.
Note 3The cost-accounting note in Arch. 4, Folio 111, gives the following details about 'Cic. Epistolae ad Atticum 16⁰': the first entry for the payment of the wages for composing and printing is entered on 25 October 1566 (for sheets A-B and C-D at 2 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers per sheet 'et le format' at 5 stuivers), a second on 3 May 1567 (for quires E-Z, a-g), and finally a last one on 28 June 1567 ('pour 7 feilles et pour un pot de vin'); in all 66 florins Carolus guilders 19 stuivers Each work contains 24 sheets and as 1,250 copies were printed, 62 reams of paper 'petit carré' were used (including 2 reams 'imperfections'), which, at 1 florins Carolus guilders 8 stuivers per ream, came to 86 florins Carolus guilders 16 stuivers, bringing the overall costs to 153 florins Carolus guilders 15 stuivers
Note 4The colophon specifies that the work was finished on 31 May 1567.
Note 5Listed in M 296, Folio 3r (Ciceronis ep[isto]lae ad Atticum, in 16⁰, f[euilles] 23½, [price:] stuivers 5), and M 164, Folio 5v.
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