Tres Ciceronis de natura deoru[m] libri elega[n]tissimi : qui ante inscitia calcographoru[m] deprauati, iam scuiori ad vnguem lima expoliti a plusculisq[ue] mendis vindicati : in lucem prodeunt
- Creator
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Stoeckel, Wolfgang, 1473-1541 (printer)
- Kachelofen, Konrad, -1528 or 1529 (printer)
- Form
- books
- Early printed books
- Annotations (Provenance)
- Date
- 1505
- Language
- Latin
- Subject
- Gods, Roman -- Early works to 1800
- Gods, Roman
- Theology -- Early works to 1800
- Theology
- Collection
- Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 62 unnumbered leaves : coat of arms (woodcut) ; 31 cm (folio)
- Publisher
- [Wolfgang Stoeckel]
- Related Place
- Germany -- Leipzig.
- Notes
- "Whatever text may have served as a model, or whoever may have been the editor, it can be stated with confidence on the basis of type and illustration that this edition of the De natura deorum is not an incunable and that it was not printed by Konrad Kachelofen, but that it was printed some time between 1505 and 1510 by Wolfgang Stöckel Monacensis."--Cf. R. Hirsch, "Cicero 'De natura deorum' the first separate printing, Leipzig, n.d. (GW 6901)", in Essays in honour of Victor Scholderer (Mainz, K. Pressler, 1970), p. 196-200. Previously assigned to Kachelofen ca. 1500 by GW and Goff.
- Signatures: A-D⁶ E⁴ F-I⁶ K⁴ L⁶ (leaves A2-A4 signed A1-A3).
- Chancery folio. Leaf A2v: 27 lines, plus headline and printed marginalia; area of text: 211 (222) x 116 (130) mm. Three initial spaces, two with guide-letters. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. One woodcut on t.p. (120 x 90 mm.) depicting a noblewoman holding a shield with the heraldic designs of the duchy of Saxony, of Thuringia, the electorate of Saxony, and of Meissen, with the eagle of Poland in the center, i.e. the arms of Duchess Barbara, wife of George the Bearded.
- Leaf size: 299 x 195 mm.
- Library's copy has copious early interlinear and marginal ms. notes through leaf D4, and on leaf G2v. The annotations in the first gathering have been partially lost due to cropping.
- Without rubrication.
- Bound in modern brown boards; two early vellum finding tabs.
- Title leaf torn at inner and outer margins, with lower outside corner torn off; entire leaf has been mended and reinforced; all leaves through B1 appear to have been detached at inner margin and have been expertly mended with no loss of text or ms. annotations.
- Library's copy has illegible lozenge-shaped stamp on t.p.
- Library's copy shelved alongside a copy of Rudolf Hirsch's article "Cicero 'De natura deorum' the first separate printing, Leipzig, n.d. (GW 6901)", in Essays in honour of Victor Scholderer (Mainz, K. Pressler, 1970), p. 196-200.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p38s4k53n
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Incunables, Folio Inc C-574
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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