M. Fabii Quinctiliani De institutione oratoria libri duodecim : collatione codicis Gothani et iensonianae editionis aliorumque librorum ac perpetuo commentario illustrati a Io. Mathia Gesnero accedit praefatio et indices copiosissimi.

Accession number

PML 127774

Creator

Quintilian.

Published

Gottingae : Apud Abram Vandenhoeck ..., 1738.

Credit line

Gift of Herbert Robinson in memory of Alice Robinson, 1996.

Notes

1st ed. by Gesner.
Contains one of the earliest published references to the music of J.S. Bach (p. 61, note 3).

Description

[36], 640, [192] p. ; 25 cm, (4to)

Provenance

Provenance: Arnhem family (armorial stamp); R. Sedgwick; W.E. Sedgwick; Allen W. Evarts; Ellery Sedgwick James; Herbert Robinson. NNP

Binding

Contemporary Dutch vellum over boards, with armorial stamp of the Arnhem family (or the municipal arms of Gelderland).

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