Ars minor [fragment]. - Donatus, Aelius; Dinckmut, Konrad (Ulm : P[er] Conradum Dinckmut)
Imprint from colophon.
This specimen is two conjugate leaves of an edition of the Ars minor which survives only in this bifolium and 16 other scattered leaves. The 30-line pages are set in Gothic type, 145 mm to 20 lines. According to Bruce McKittrick, "The text preserved here is Schwenke's Cap. 26 line 14 to Cap. 27 line 4 ([2]1r-v) and Cap. 35 line 6 to Cap. 35 line 43 ([2]8r; this edition did not contain the final three chapters). As it exhibits no sewing holes, its first use was probably as board reinforcement in a binding."
In clamshell box with fragments of three other editions of the Ars minor.
Haebler, K. Typenrepertorium
Schwenke, P. Donat- und Kalender-Type.
GW
Keywords: Gothic type -- Specimens; Printing -- Specimens; Latin language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1500.