Beschreibung:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M. T. Ciceronis De philosophia volumen primum, in quo haec continentur. Academicarum quaestionum. Editionis primae liber secundus. Editionis secundae liber primus. De finibus bonorum et malorum libri V. Tusculanarum quaestionum libri V (Secundo volumine haec continentur. M. T. C. de natura deorum libri III. De divinatione libri II. De fato liber I. Scipionis somnium, quod è sex de rep. libris superest. De legibus libri III. De Universitate liber I. Q. Ciceronis de petitione consulatus ad Marcum fratrem liber I). (Venice: in the house of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, May and August 1523)
This is the first Aldine edition of Cicero's De philosophia. A companion volume of Cicero bound identically for Georg Zollner is the 1522 Aldine edition of the Epistolae familiares (UCLA 210, mentioning this copy). This also went to the library of the Cistercian abbey of Bronnbach (Würzburg). Georg was the youngest of three sons of Hans Zollner vom Brand (1454-1533) and Dorothea Kammermeister (Camerarius; 1497-1553), a sister of Hieronymus Camerarius (1490-1545), counsellor and secretary to the bishop of Bamberg, and of the classical scholar Joachim Camerarius (1500-1574). Georg matriculated at Erfurt in 1520, at Wittenberg in 1524, at Leipzig in 1525, and at Bologna in 1529, where he was nominated Procurato in 1530, Procurator substitutus in 1533, Sindicus in 1534, and promoted doctor of civil and canon law in 1535.
2 volumes, 8vo (161 x 100 mm). Italic type, 31 lines plus headline. collation: *8 a-z8 A-I8: 264 leaves (lacking final leaf with device only, f8 blank except for printed foliation, leaves I4-6 blank, one of these lacking); a-z8 A-D8: 216 leaves (lacking final leaf with device, B2 blank except for printed signature). Woodcut Aldine device on title-pages. Early manuscript annotations in red in second volume. (First title with removed stamp or inscription to right of printer's device, second title with repaired wormhole at head.)
binding: Contemporary Bolognese black morocco by the Vignette Binder, blind-tooled leafy border, titles lettered in gilt in center of covers with a leafy surround, PHILOSOPHIA M.T.C. and DE NATURA DEOR M.T.C., lower covers with the owner's initials and motto, GZ DIMIDIUM PLUS TOTO VB, plain spines and edges, index tabs, stubs from 4 pairs of ties. (A few wormholes in bindings, spine of volume 1 defective, bindings slightly rubbed.)
provenance: Georg Zollner von Brand, initials GZVB and motto on binding — Bronnbach Abbey, Würzburg, inscription on title-pages (dissolved 1802), sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Munich, 4 November 1985, part of lot 61 (sold with other similar Aldines, including the companion Cicero now at UCLA). acquisition: Purchased from Sokol Books, London, 1986. references: UCLA 222 & 225; Cataldi Palau 88 (both volumes); Edit16 12220 (both volumes); Renouard 97/4 and 97/5; A. Hobson, “Bookbinding in Bologna” in Schede umanistiche, n.s., 1 (1998), pp.147-176 (p.167); A. Hobson & Leonardo Quaquarelli, Legature bolognesi del rinascimento (Bologna 1998), p.24.