Clarissimi ac praesta[n]tissimi philosophiae doctoris Augustini dachi Senensis de varijs loque[n]di figuris sive de modo dicta[n]di ad Andrea[m] Sene[n]sis isagogiscus libellus incipit.

Accession number: 
PML 646.2
Author: 
Dati, Agostino, 1420-1478.
Published: 
[Deventer] : [Richardus Pafraet], [approximately 1483].
Description: 
[24] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC, dated from paper evidence (WILC). HPT and GW dated about 1480-1485.
Printed in Pafraet's type 2B:103G.
Signatures: a-c⁸: 24 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 13 cm.

Binding: 
Modern quarter brown goatskin, with parchment sides, over paper boards (20 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

De variis loquendi figuris sive de modo dictandi

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red initials (partially unrealized), red capital strokes and paragraph marks. Annotations: Contemporary/16th-century Latin notations throughout, in 2 hands (same throughout PML 646).

Provenance: 
J. J. Mansel, signature, 19th century (front endleaf 1 recto, preserved from previous binding); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto, preserved from previous binding); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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