Details

Subject(s)

• Jenson, Nicolas approximately 1420-1480 [Browse]
• Rhetoric, Ancient [Browse]
• Oratory, Ancient [Browse]
• Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin [Browse]

Related name

• Bonisoli, Ognibene, approximately 1412-1474 [Browse]

Printer

• Jenson, Nicolas, approximately 1420-1480 [Browse]

Former owner

• Montagnana, Pietro da [Browse]
• Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, Earl of, 1656-1733 [Browse]
• Brooke, John Arthur, Sir, 1844-1920 [Browse]
• Kane, Grenville, 1854-1943 [Browse]

Bookseller

• H.P. Kraus (Firm) [Browse]

Notes

• Title from colophon.
• Begins (leaf 1/1r): Tabula Quintiliani.
• Colophon (leaf 22/9v): ... M. Nicolaus Ienson Gallicus viventibus posterisque miro impressit artificio. Annis .M.CCCCLXXI. mense Maii die .XXI. Deo gratias.
• Initial spaces, spaces for Greek text.
• Printed on sheets of "median"-size paper.
• The dedicatory letter by Leonicenus (leaf1/2v) credits Jenson as the inventor of printing.

Binding note

ExKa copy in red goatskin with borders ruled and tooled in gold.

Provenance

• ExKa copy has inscription on p. [423]: Hu[n]c libru[m] donavit d[omi]nus Petrus de Montagnana sacerdos devotus.
• ExKa copy has bookplates of John Arthur Brooke and Grenville Kane.
• ExKa copy is from the library of the Earl of Pembroke.
• WHS copy acquired 1/6/86 from Kraus.

References

• Hain-Copinger, 13647*.
• Proctor, 4073.
• Goff, Q-26.
• BM 15th cent., V, 168 (IB.19630).
• ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), iq00026000.
• Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1556.

LCCN

77505118

OCLC

80626470

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