Details

Subject(s)

• Ethics, Ancient—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Paradox—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Printer

• Zell, Ulrich, -1503 [Browse]

Former owner

• Sullivan, Edward, 1822-1885 [Browse]
• O'Brien, William, 1832-1899 [Browse]
• Milltown Park Library (Dublin, Ireland) [Browse]

Notes

• Title and imprint from the Incunabula short title catalogue.
• Without signatures or pagination. 25 lines to the page. Gothic type.
• Princeton copy 1: Initials and capital strokes supplied in red ink; last blank leaf wanting.

Binding note

Princeton copy 1: Bound in 19th century half calf over marbled pasteboards; black morocco label on spine: "Moguntiae C. 1466".

Provenance

• Princeton copy 1: Armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Sullivan.
• Princeton copy 1: From the library of William O'Brien (1832-1899), with his bequest label dated 1899 ("Ex legato Gulielmi O'Brien justiciarii an. 1899"); later in the property of Milltown Park Charitable Trust (with bookplate of the Jesuit community at Milltown Park on front pastedown); sold at a Sotheby's auction in London on 7 June 2017 and donated by Mrs. Scheide to Princeton University Library.

References

• Incunabula short title catalogue, ic00618000
• Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C618
• Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 7009
• Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I 181

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Germany Cologne.

Other title(s)

Marci Tulii Ciceronis paradoxa

Incipit title

• Marci Tulij Ciceronis paradoxa incipit

OCLC

644315297

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