Accession number
PML 15418.1
Creator
Quintilian.
Object title
Raphaelis Regii in depravationes oratoriae Quintiliani institutionis annotationes.
Published
Venetiis : Per Bonetum Locatellum, mandato ac sumptibus nobilis viri Octaviani Scoti civis Modoetienses, anno ab incarnatio[n]e Redemptoris nostri Christi Iesu optimi maximiq[ue]. M.CCCCLXCIII. XVI. Kalendas Sextiles [17 July 1493].
Description
[206] leaves : diagrams (woodcuts) ; 31.5 x 21.5 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf a1r).
Colophon (leaf [rum]4v): Venetiis per Bonetum Locatellum, mandato ac sumptibus nobilis viri Octaviani Scoti civis Modoetienses, anno ab incarnatio[n]e Redemptoris nostri Christi Iesu optimi maximiq[ue]. M.CCCCLXCIII. XVI. Kalendas Sextiles.
There are two editions with the same colophon, one a page-for-page reprint of the other. In the true 1493 edition, the printer's device on the verso of leaf [rum]5 measures 90 x 57 mm. and the penultimate quire is signed [con]. In the reprint ed. ([after 1500]) the printer's device on [rum]5v measures 83 x 51 mm. and the penultimate quire is signed [us]. Cf. Husung 198 and 199.
Printed in Locatellus's types 5:80R, 6:105R, 80Gk and 105Gk.
Collation: [1]²; a-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁶ [rum]⁶: 206 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [rum]6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Includes the commentary of Raphaello Regius.
White-on-black woodcut initials at beginning of each book; initial spaces, with guide-letters, elsewhere; woodcut diagrams in text.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.3 x 20.7 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [rum]6 (blank).
Two works bound together only in modern era: the marginal hands are different in each work and paper evidence does not suggest that they have been bound together for long.
Colophon (leaf [rum]4v): Venetiis per Bonetum Locatellum, mandato ac sumptibus nobilis viri Octaviani Scoti civis Modoetienses, anno ab incarnatio[n]e Redemptoris nostri Christi Iesu optimi maximiq[ue]. M.CCCCLXCIII. XVI. Kalendas Sextiles.
There are two editions with the same colophon, one a page-for-page reprint of the other. In the true 1493 edition, the printer's device on the verso of leaf [rum]5 measures 90 x 57 mm. and the penultimate quire is signed [con]. In the reprint ed. ([after 1500]) the printer's device on [rum]5v measures 83 x 51 mm. and the penultimate quire is signed [us]. Cf. Husung 198 and 199.
Printed in Locatellus's types 5:80R, 6:105R, 80Gk and 105Gk.
Collation: [1]²; a-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁶ [rum]⁶: 206 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [rum]6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Includes the commentary of Raphaello Regius.
White-on-black woodcut initials at beginning of each book; initial spaces, with guide-letters, elsewhere; woodcut diagrams in text.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.3 x 20.7 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [rum]6 (blank).
Two works bound together only in modern era: the marginal hands are different in each work and paper evidence does not suggest that they have been bound together for long.
Binding
Modern full red goatskin over heavy paper boards (31.5 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary manuscript notations throughout in several hands, in Latin and Greek.
Provenance
Unnamed purchased inscription, 15 Nov. 1492: "die 15 novembris 1492 cui huius librum bononie solides septem [???]" (leaf h7v of Sallust); Antonius Aquarius, signatures (leaves [1]/2r and a2r of Quintillian) and annotations, early-16th century; unidentified inscription, abraded (leaf [1]/2r of Quintillian); unidentified sale catalogue description next to inscription: 20 Guigno 1870 (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased (from Canessa?) in 1907.
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