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Orthographia. Guillaume Fichet to Robert Gaguin. Guarinus Veronensis: De diphthongis (Ed: Johannes de Lapide). Guillaume Fichet: De arte punctandi.

Accession number
PML 21586
Creator
Barzizza, Gasparino, approximately 1360-1431.
Object title

Orthographia. Guillaume Fichet to Robert Gaguin. Guarinus Veronensis: De diphthongis (Ed: Johannes de Lapide). Guillaume Fichet: De arte punctandi.

Published

[Paris : Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, shortly after 1 Jan. 1470/71]

Description

(4to)

Notes
Checklist lists this item under Atelier de la Sorbonne as part of Gering, Crantz and Friburger as printers.
Checklist: "Cl Paris 2."
For correct collation, ending [A]6, [B]2] see CIBN.
For the attribution of De arte punctandi to Fichet, rather than to Johannes de Lapide, see E. Beltran, in Scriptorium 39 (1985) 284-91 (Hillard). Fichet's letter contains the earliest report in print naming Gutenberg as the inventor of printing.
ISTC note: PML (without Fichet letter).
Binding
Modern full black goatskin, by Lortic.
Classification
Century
Department