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BES	Biblioteca de El Escorial, Madrid
BL	British Library, London
BLaur	Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence
BMV	Biblioteca Marciana, Venice
BN	Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
BNCF	Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence
BTriv	Biblioteca Trivulziana, Milan
CUL	Cambridge University Library
DSB	Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Berlin
HLH	Houghton Library, Harvard University
HRHRC	Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin, TX
JRULM	John Rylands University Library of Manchester
MC	Musée Condé, Château de Chantilly, France
MCO	Merton College, Oxford
NYPL	New York Public Library
ONW	Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna
PML	Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
TCC	Trinity College, Cambridge
TCD	Trinity College, Dublin
UCLA	Library of University of California, Los Angeles
YUL	Yale University Library

A. Editions Published from 1514 to 1534

1. 1514 ¶ Sannazaro, Arcadia
BN Rés.p.Yc 1277, 210 × 101 mm (Grolier binding)
Renouard, p. 68

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2. 1514 (1519?) ¶ Virgil
BL C.19.C.22, 215 × 102 mm (figure 2); BL G9696, 202 × 95 mm; JRULM 3361, 197 ×
97 mm
Renouard, p. 64[41]
3. 1517 Ausonius
BN Rés.p.Yc.896, 195 × 94 mm; CUL Sel.6.55, 171 × 97 mm
Renouard, pp. 80–81
4. 1517 Martial
BLaur D'Elci 1083, 180 × 94 mm
Centi, p. 371[42]
5. 1518 Pontanus, Amorum libri
PML 1564, 186 × 95 mm
Fletcher, p. 113; Needham 1994, p. 135
6. 1518 ¶ Pomponius Mela
PML 1559, 176 × 90 mm
Fletcher, p. 113
7. 1518–1521 Livy, 4 vols
JRULM 20953, 208 × 100 mm[43]
Renouard, p. 84
8. 1519 ¶ Cicero, Orationes, 3 vols
BLaur D'Elci 1178–1180, 208 × 95 mm; JRULM 5371, 200 × 98 mm, 205 × 98 mm,
203 × 98 mm
Renouard, p. 86; Centi, p. 160
9. 1519 ¶ Horace
BL C.19.c.5, 210 × 99 mm
Renouard, p. 88[44]
10. 1520 Quintus Curtius
T. Kimball Brooker, Chicago, 184 × 97 mm
Brooker (letter of 7/7/2003)
11. 1521 ¶ Terence
Renouard, pp. 91–92
12. 1521 ¶ Petrarch
BTriv Triv.Petr.34, 171 × 93 mm[45]
Renouard, pp. 92–93
13. 1521 Longolius
PML 1424, 178 × 102 mm
Fletcher, p. 114

109

14. 1521 ¶ Sallust
BTriv Triv.H608, 212 × 97 mm
Renouard, p. 93
15. 1522 Asconius Pedianus
Renouard, p. 96
16. 1533 Castilgione
BL C.16.g.10, 177 × 94 mm; PML 28071, 181 × 92 mm
Renouard, pp. 107–108; Fletcher, p. 115
17. 1533 Cicero, Epistolae familiares
BL 1454.d.6, 210 × 101 mm
Renouard, p. 108
18. 1533 Sannazaro, De partu virginis
BLaur D'Elci 291, 202 × 94 mm; BN Rés.p.Yc.1276, 200 × 98 mm (Grolier binding);
Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth, 187 × 97 mm (Grolier binding)
Renouard, p. 110; Centi, p. 514; Nixon, p. 53
19. 1533 ¶ Capella
BLaur D'Elci 826, 190 × 100 mm (Grolier binding); JRULM 20942, 201 × 97 mm (Grolier
binding)
Renouard, p. 110; Centi, p. 124
20. 1533–1534 ¶ Ovid, 3 vols
DSB Ald.Ren.109,8–1 (vol.1), 197 × 95 mm; HLH WKR 16.4.2, 200 × 100 mm (Grolier
binding); TCD Quin 66, 210 × 98 mm
Renouard, p. 109; Needham 1994, p. 135
21. 1534 ¶ Priapaea
BL C.19.c.6, 215 × 96 mm
Renouard, p. 110[46]
22. 1534 ¶ Valerius Maximus
BN Rés.Z.4607, 188 × 96 mm (Grolier binding); ONW 22.0.12-Alt.Einb, 200 ×
100 mm
Renouard, pp. 110–111
23. 1534 Sannazaro, Arcadia
Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth, 188 × 105 mm (Grolier binding)
Renouard, p. 112[47]
24. 1534 Sannazaro, Sonetti
Renouard, p. 112; Nixon, pp. 37–38

[41]

According to Renouard there is another copy "en grand papier" of this edition in the
Quin collection, Trinity College, Dublin. In fact, the Quin copy, which measures 170 × 106
mm, is printed on paper with the cardinal's hat watermark and so belongs to the main print
run on narrow-median paper.

[42]

For a possible royal-paper copy of another 1517 octavo, Oppian's De piscibus, see
above, n. 33.

[43]

The copy is bound in eight volumes. At the same press-mark there is also a narrow-
median copy of the fifth volume, published in 1533.

[44]

The Bibliothèque Nationale de France does not possess a copy "en grand papier" of
this edition, as Renouard states.

[45]

The copy is printed on white paper as far as f. 103, and then on blue paper. As Ren-
ouard observes, it is obviously made up from two different copies. I include the copy in my list,
not without misgivings, because it has large bottom margins.

[46]

Renouard (p. 81) mistakenly attributes this royal-paper copy, of Cracherode prov-
enance, to the 1517 edition.

[47]

Renouard wrongly states that there is a copy of this edition "en grand papier" and
with a Grolier binding in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Presumably he confused it with
their copy of the 1514 edition (see entry 1).

B. Editions Published between 1535 and 1550

25. 1535–1536 Pliny, 3 vols
BN Rés.S.904–906, 199 × 118 mm, 198 × 111 mm, 198 × 118 mm; BNCF Banco Rari
161–163, 207 × 117 mm, 205 × 116 mm, 208 × 116 mm; BES, 210 × 120 mm;
T. Kimball Brooker, Chicago, 200 × 122 mm; JRULM 5369a (vol. III), 207 ×
120 mm
Renouard, pp. 114–115; Brooker, p. 33, n. 17 and fig. 13

110

26. 1536 ¶ Aristotle
PML 1169, 181 × 113 mm
Renouard, p. 115; Fletcher, p. 116
27. 1540 ¶ Cicero, Epistolae familiares
BL C.19.c.19, 199 × 121 mm; BN Rés.Z.2128, 192 × 107 mm
Renouard, p. 120[48]
28. 1540 ¶ Cicero, Epistolae ad Atticum
BL Davis 763, 208 × 118 (figure 4); NYPL *KB 1540, 197 × 113 mm
Brooker, pp. 65–66
29. 1540–1541 Cicero, Orationes, 3 vols
BN Rés.X.2376–2378, 208 × 122 mm, 204 × 118 mm, 204 × 118 mm; T. Kimball
Brooker, Chicago (vol. I), 215 × 125 mm
Renouard, p. 121; Brooker, p. 66 and letter of 27/9/2000
30. 1541 Cicero, De philosophia, 2 vols
BN Rés.R.1824–1825, 204 × 116 mm, 206 × 116 mm; JRULM 18561, 203 × 117 mm,
200 × 117 mm; YUL Gnc60.A541 (vol. I)
Renouard, p. 122; Brooker, pp. 66-67 and fig. 7
31. 1541 ¶ Cicero, De officiis
MCO 27.c.20, 191 × 117 mm; NYPL *KB 1541, 201 × 121 mm
Julia Walworth (letter of 17/2/2005); Brooker, p. 66 and fig. 6
32. 1541 Virgil
DSB Ald.Ren.123,7, 204 × 116 mm
Renouard, p. 123; Brooker, p. 67
33. 1541 ¶ Terence
DSB Ald.Ren.123,8, 206 × 115 mm; JRULM 8614, 213 × 123 mm
Renouard, p. 123; Hobson, p. 115, pl. 66; Brooker, p. 67 and fig. 8
34. 1544 Cicero, Epistolae ad Atticum
BEM Esc.36.V.18, 211 × 130 mm;[49] JRULM 17418, 202 × 134 mm; UCLA 138084 ALD
V.7, 192 × 124 mm[50]
Renouard, p. 129; Hobson, p. 118, pl. 68; Ahmanson-Murphy, p. 215
35. 1545 Cicero, De officiis
BL C.19.c.17, 200 × 122 mm; JRULM 7891, 197 × 133 mm
Renouard, pp. 131–132
36. 1545 Virgil
Renouard, pp. 132–133
37. 1545 Terence
PML 1632, 193 × 118 mm; UCLA Z233A4T27 1545, 196 × 118 mm
Renouard, p. 133 (Grolier binding); Fletcher, p. 118; Ahmanson-Murphy, pp. 216–217
38. 1546 Ammonius, 3 vols
BNV 395.D.226 1–3.Stamp: Legato Molin, 170 × 110 mm
Renouard, p. 135

111

39. 1546 Liburnio
DSB Ald.Ren.135,5, 205 × 125 mm; JRULM 10899, 190 × 120 mm; ONW 22.0.13 Alt.
Einb, 193 × 116 mm;[51] T. Kimball Brooker, Chicago, 206 × 125 (Grolier binding)
Renouard, p. 135;[52] Brooker (letter of 24/10/2000)
40. 1546 Cicero, Rhetorica
BN Rés.X.2242–2245 (4 vols), 203 × 121 mm;[53] PML 3114, 203 × 127 mm; MC XI.G.14,
200 × 135 mm (De oratore only)
Renouard, p. 136; Fletcher, p. 118
41. 1546 Cicero, Orationes, 3 vols
DSB Ald.Ren.136,9–1.3, 203 × 130 mm, 201 × 130 mm (vols 1 and 3); JRULM 17295,
204 × 134 mm, 201 × 134 mm (vols 1 and 3)
Renouard, pp. 136–137
42. 1546 Cicero, Epistolae familiares
JRULM 18713, 205 × 134 mm; PML 1286, 205 × 134 mm
Renouard, p. 137; Fletcher, p. 118
43. 1546 Cicero, De philosophia, 2 vols
UCLA 138084 ALD v.8–9, 190 × 122 mm[54]
Ahmanson-Murphy, p. 231
44. 1546 Capece
T. Kimball Brooker, Chicago, 197 × 122 mm
Brooker (letter of 24/10/2000)
45. 1547 Paulus Manutius, Commentarius
UCLA Z233 A4M324i 1547 c.2, 203 × 128 mm
Renouard, pp. 140–141; Gilmont, pl. V; Ahmanson-Murphy, p. 235
46. 1548 Cicero, Epistolae ad Atticum
BN Rés.Z.2137, 183 × 109 mm
Renouard, p. 143
47. 1548 Cicero, De officiis
UCLA 138084 ALD v.10, 190 × 122 mm
Ahmanson-Murphy, p. 240

[48]

According to Renouard there is another copy "en grand papier" of this edition "dans
la bibliothèque Brera de Milan". However, as the Director of the Biblioteca Braidense, Milan,
kindly informs me, the height of their copy is 161 mm.

[49]

The dimensions are those of the binding.

[50]

This copy, together with other copies of works by Cicero in the same library (see en-
tries 43 and 47), belongs to a group of Aldine octavos of works by Cicero bound in a uniform
manner. The first four volumes of the group are royal-paper copies of Cicero's Rhetorica ad
Herrenium (1 vol.) and of his Orationes (3 vols), both published in 1554, and so outside the scope
of this article (see Ahmanson-Murphy, pp. 279-281). They witness to the continuation in the
Aldine press after 1550 of the practice of printing royal-paper copies of octavo editions.

[51]

The copy is printed entirely on blue paper.

[52]

Another copy "en grand papier" which, according to Renouard, had been given to "la
Bibliothèque de Trévise", cannot now be found. I am grateful to Dr. Mariachiara Mazzariol,
who searched the libraries of Treviso on my behalf for this volume, but in vain.

[53]

All four parts were bound by the Mendoza Binder for Ottavio Pantagato, whose arms
appear on the upper cover; see Le Bars, pp. 53–55 (her items 9 and 10).

[54]

T. Kimball Brooker owns a royal-paper copy (202 × 135 mm) of the Tusculanae Dispu-
tationes, part of the first volume of this edition (Brooker, letter of 7/7/2003).

[40]

¶ indicates editions known to include vellum copies. The author would be pleased to
hear of other instances of royal-paper copies of Aldines published between 1495 and 1550. Ad-
dress: 23 St Mary's St, Ely, Cambs CB7 4ER, G.B.; email: <conor.fahy@btinternet.com<.