Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius. De Institutione Oratoria Libri Duodecim. Sheldonian Theatre, 1693.

This seventeenth-century printed volume is a Latin edition of Marcus Fabius Quintilianus’s De Institutione Oratoria Libri Duodecim, edited by Edmund Gibson. The work was published in Oxford at the Sheldonian Theatre in 1693. The title page indicates the text was emended from three manuscripts and eight printed editions, including variant readings. It also contains the Emendationum Specimen and Tribunus Marianus, a declamation printed here for the first time from a manuscript source. The volume is bound in a later red cloth with a hand-lettered paper label on the spine. The imprimatur, signed by Henr. Aldrich, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, is dated 16 June 1693. Provenance is evidenced by an Ampleforth Abbey Library bookplate with a withdrawn stamp. Handwritten ownership inscriptions on the flyleaf include J. Wilkinson A.M., dated 1797, and J. Robinson, dated 1832, with a faint pencil note below. The imprint identifies Henrici Cruttenden as the typographer.