Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews collection of early books in the Library of Yale University.

  • Yale University Library
Date:
1913
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Credit: Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews collection of early books in the Library of Yale University. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TIBVRTICENSIS COMPENDIOSA DOCTRINA AD FILIVM DE PROPRIETATE SERMONVM. Fol. 194% Colophon : NONII MARCELLI PERIPATETICI TI- BVRTICENSIS COMPENDIOSA DOCTRINA AD FILIVM DE PROPRIETATE SERMONVM IM- PRESSA VENETIIS INDVSTRIA ATQVE IMPEN- DIO NICOLAI IENSON OALLICI. .M.CCCC.LXXVI. Fol. 194h, blank. Polio. Sign, a-c10, d-y8, zi2, 194 leaves, 1 and 21 blank, 34 lines to the page, roman letter, without catchwords or pagination. Seven- and eight-line spaces left for capitals, some with guide-letters. The type is Jenson’s first roman trimmed or recast the second time on a slightly smaller body. Greek words as a rule printed with Greek type, not transliterated. Hain 11901. Proctor 4098. On the first page of text a large initial S in gold on a panel of color, with marginal decoration. Other large chapter initials in red and blue alternately. Numerous paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue. Blank first leaf wanting. The index, which occupies the first nineteen leaves, is alphabetized as far as the second letter of the word. The references are by roman numerals to the leaves (not pages) of the work, which themselves have only manu- script foliation in arabic figures. The first edition of Nonius was printed at Rome in 1470 by Lauer; the second, in 1471, was without place or name. Jenson’s edition, which is the third, borrowed from both of these but added also something of value. The correct title, De compendiosa doctrina, first appears here. The usual title, De proprietate sermonum, belongs strictly to the first chapter. As in all the early editions, the third chapter is lacking, having been discovered later and first included in the 1513 edition of Aldus. Jenson’s Greek type long remained in favor for incidental use in Latin books after it had been displaced in Greek books by Aldine types.
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