M. Antonii Mvreti Orationvm Volumina Dvo Ouorum Primum Ante aliquot annos in lucem prodijt, Secundum verò Recens est editum, Nuneque primum in Germania excusum & a mendis quae in Venetiana editione irrepseratn repurgatum. Acceserunt Indices, in quibus ex ordine recensentur, quam, in causam, & rem Orationes habitaesuerint Aadiunximus etiam Caroli Sigonii Oratoris disertissimi Orationes VII

Coloniaae Agrippinae, Apud Ionnem Gtmnicum, sub Monocerote, M, D. XCII. 1592. 8vo, 165 X 90 mms, 3 parts in one volume, pp. [viii]], 272; [viii], 189 [190 - 192 Epistolae, with contemporary ink comment at bottom of page]. BOUND WITH: Caroli Sigonii Oratoris Disertissimi Orationes septem, quarum priores quatuor sunt pro Eloquentia. v. De Latinae linguae vsu Retinendo. vi. De Laudibus Historiae. vii. De Laudibus Studiorom humanitatis. Coloniaae Agrippinae Apud Ionnem Gtmnicum, sub Monocerote, M, D. XCII. 8vo, 165 X 90 mms The two separate items are bound in contemporary calf with an oval ornament on each cover, fragments of a paper label on the spine, with a ms. sheets of ms. music from an earlier period as the front and rear free-end papers (lacks paste-down end-paper);front hinge cracked and binding a bit age-soiled. Marc-Antoine Muret (1526–1585) was a major figure in humanist classical scholarship. A superb Latinist, he influenced, among others, the Dutch humanist Justus Lipsius. John Edwin Sandys (1844 - 19220 in his Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning (1905 ) asserted that Muret "exhibited the closest affinity with Cicero in his genius for lucid expression, in his graceful and refined urbanity, and in his natural sense of harmony and rhythm." Carolus Sigonius (c. 1524 – 1584) was elected professor of Greek in Modena in succession to Portus. Wikipedia records a story about him that resonates with manuscript history: "In 1583, Sigonius edited a manuscript purported to be the long-sought Consolatio by Cicero, written as a distraction from his grief at the death of his daughter Tullia. Published in Venice, it was based on a book found by an obscure bookseller, named Vianelli. Sigonius declared that, if not genuine, it was at least worthy of Cicero; those who held the opposite view (Antonio Riccoboni, Justus Lipsius, and others) asserted that Sigonius himself had written it with the object of deceiving the learned world, a charge which he explicitly denied. The original manuscript was never produced. The work is now universally regarded as a forgery, whoever may have been the author of it....[but] Sigonius's reputation chiefly rests upon his publications on Greek and Roman antiquities, which may even now be consulted with advantage" For the work by Carolus Sigonius (1524 - 1584) finds four copies (Harvard, Pennsylvania; Bayerishche Staatsbibliothek and Nurnberg Staatsbibliothek), each bound with the two volumes by Muret.