Diomedes: Ars grammatica.
Add: Phocas: De nomine et verbo. Priscianus: Institutio de nomine, pronomine, et verbo. [Pseudo-] Flavius Caper: De orthographia et latinitate verborum. Agroecius: De orthographia et proprietate et differentia sermonis. Aelius Donatus: [Ars Maior, partes 2-3] De octo partibus orationis et de barbarismo. Honoratus Servius Maurus: Commentarius in artem Donati.
Paris: Thielman Kerver, for Jean Petit, 26 May 1498.
4to. a-p8. [120] leaves.
Woodcut printer’s device.
ISTC id00238400; GW 8405; Polain(B) 1297; CIBN D-144.
| GIP number: | D18 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.3.34 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | N.S. (16th/17th century): initials "N S." stamped in blind on both covers. H.W. (18th century?): initials “H:W” on a1r (title-page). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum book-plate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “As.7.20”. |
| Binding: | 16th-century blind-tooled calf over wooden boards; both covers decorated with fillets to form a centre panel, which is divided diagonally by intersecting fillets into lozenge-shaped compartments filled with lattice stamps; initials "N S" added in blind on both covers; remains of a single brass clasp (catch plate on rear board); manuscript title on fore-edge running from head to tail; rebacked in the 19th or early 20th century; modern paper flyleaves; original pastedowns lost. Size: 218 x 142 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 208 x 140 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional marginal annotations (mainly extracting keywords) in 16th-century hands in brown ink and in red; deleted (ownership?) inscription on p8v followed by a quotation/motto “A cader va qui troppo sale” - cf. Petrarch, Canzionere, 307 “A cader va chi troppo sale”; paginated with errors in a 17th/18th-century hand (with references to that pagination in the Index on a1v); number “27” in ink at inner lower corner of a1r. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
