Details

Subject(s)

• Latin language—Grammar—Early works to 1500 [Browse]
• Type and type-founding—Specimens [Browse]

Former owner

• Hodgkin, John Eliot [Browse]

Bookseller

• Maggs Bros [Browse]

Summary note

Donatus editions printed with the Saliceto type were set to either 26 or 27 lines per page, and range in extent from 12 to 16 leaves. The Saliceto type is named after a Prototypography Chancery folio edition that includes Gulielmus de Saliceto, De salute corporis, and other miscellaneous tracts, datable to not after 1472.

Notes

WHS fragment is f. 3 (Schwenke 11,8-15,29) of a 27-line edition; Type 5.

Provenance

Provenance: John Eliot Hodgkin; acquired August, 1938.

References

• GW 8769/10.
• Goff D-325a.