Imprint from colophon: Apud Aldi filios, Venetiis, M.D. XLV. Mense Octobri.

Register precedes colophon.

Printer's device on the title page; verso of the final leaf.

Signatures: A-K⁴, L⁶.

Spaces with guide letters for capitals.

"Cum Priuilegio Senatus Veneti"--Title page.

Dropped 'e' on line 25 of leaf [37].

Dedication to Marino Grimani dated Oct., 1545.

Renouard, A. A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde (3rd edition, 1834), p. 132, no. 10

Syston Park armorial bookplate with manuscript 917 on front pastedown, with engraved label affixed below: JHT [Sir John Hayford Thorold].

Transferred from Hilles Library Vault; bookplate of Radcliffe College Library: Bequest of Annie L. Sears in memory of her father, Philip H. Sears, Harvard 1844; Radcliffe College Library call number: 093 26.

Catalog description on front pastedown, price given $15.00.

40 blank leaves bound in at end.

Bound in navy leather, gilt and blind decoration, including gilt stamped version of Aldine printer's device on front and back covers, gilt edges and turn ins; spine title: Oratio Parthenii; cream silk ribbon marker.