Details

Subject(s)

• Incunabula—Specimens [Browse]

Related name

• Regio, Raffaele, approximately 1450-1520 [Browse]

Printer

• Scotto, Ottaviano, -1498 [Browse]
• Locatelli, Boneto, active 1486-1523 [Browse]

Former owner

• Carton, Laurence Roberts [Browse]

Notes

• Leaf [1a]: (title page) Quintilianus Cum commento.
• Leaf [204b]: (colophon) M. Fabii Quintiliani oratoria[rum] institutionum. Vna cu[m] annotationibus in deprauationes eiusdem. Finis. Venetiis per Bonetum Locatellum: mandato ac sumptibus Nobilis Viri Octauiani Scoti Ciuis Modoetienses Anno ab incarnatio[n]e Redemptoris nostri Christi Iesu Optimi Maximiq[ue] M.CCCCLXCIII. [sic] XVI. Kalendas Sextiles.
• Leaf [205b]: Registrum and printer's device.
• Signatures: 2 leaves unsigned, a-z⁸, &⁸, 9⁶, [rum]⁶ ([rum]6 blank).
• Text surrounded by commentary.
• Large initials at beginning of each of the twelve books; spaces, with guide-letters, left for smaller initials.
• One column of text to the page, framed or bordered by commentary. 46 lines of text to a full page; 61 lines of comentary. Types 105 R., 80 R.
• ExI copy imperfect: last leaf, R⁶ (blank) wanting.

Binding note

ExI copy in old plain parchment over pasteboards.

Provenance

• ExI copy has bookplate of Laurence Roberts Carton, Princeton Class of 1907.
• Note on endpaper: "Bought at Monte Pulciano, September 1819. Paid four Tuscan dollars." Carton's note?

References

• Hain. Repertorium (with Copinger's Supplement) *13652
• Brit. Mus. Cat. (XV cent.) V, p. 441 (IB.22889)
• Goff Q-29

OCLC

12002159

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