Nature verborum magistri Petri Mamoris cum interrogationibus : Item Nature verborum a Peroto, Sulpicio, et compluribus alijs grammatice auctoribus, breuiter, eleganter[que] excerpte
Alternate Title:
Naturae verborum Magistri Petri Mamoris cum interrogationibus; Nature verborum a Peroto, Sulpicio, et compluribus alijs grammatice auctoribus, breuiter, eleganter[que] excerpte; Naturae verborum a Peroto, Sulpicio, et compluribus aliis grammaticae auctoribus, breviter, eleganterque excerptae
Contributor:
Hostingue, Laurent, active 1499-1526 (printer); Angier, Michel, active 1501-1545 (publisher)
Name:
Mamoris, Petrus; Perotti, Niccolò, 1430-1480; Sulpitius Verulanus, Joannes, active 15th century
Timespan:
Early works to 1800
Date:
1510
Language:
Latin
Provenance:
Milhass, Christopherus(?) (former owner) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
Publisher:
Per Laure[n]tium Hostingue :Impensis ... Michaelis Angier ..
Place of printing and printer's and publisher's names from colophon on leaf C2v, which reads: Finiunt Nature verborum a Perotto Sulpicio: et compluribus alijs gra[m]matice auctoribus breuiter eleganter[que] excerpte. Impresse Cadomi per Laure[n]tium hostingue Impensis honestissimi viri Michaelis angier Librarij ac religator vniuersitatis, E regione Pontis sancti Petri moram agentis.; Imprint date from Hirsch.; Signatures: A-B⁸ C².; Leaf C2 is blank.; Without pagination.; Woodcut illustration (Christ as Salvator Mundi; cf. L. Delisle, Catalogue des livres imprimés ... a Caen avant le milieu du 16e siècle (Caen: Delesques, 1903-1904), t. 2, pl. 12) and initials.; "Unknown to Delisle."--Hirsch.; Penn Libraries copy is no. 1 in a volume of 11 works printed in France in the early 16th century. "The contents are a mixture of grammatical and theological tracts, to teach Latin and to train clergymen, almost certainly at the University of Caen."--Hirsch.; Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1956.; Penn Libraries copy has early ms. notes (a timeline of events occuring from 10 October through 30 November?) on front pastedown; early ms. notes regarding ecclesiastical events occuring in the 1520s in Urbino(?) on verso of back free endpaper and back pastedown; early ms. pen tests, ink smears, and inscriptions on leaf C2r (the inscriptions are largely illegible; Hirsch reads one at head, struck through, as "Iste liber a me obtinuit Christopherus(?) Milhass" and the name "Milhass" appears to be repeated in several other places on the leaf).; Penn Libraries copy bound in full contemporary blind-tooled leather; 3 raised bands on spine; blind-tooled spine panels; evidence of 2 fore-edge ties; all edges blue.; Penn Libraries copy: leaves A1-A2 reinforced at inner margin; pastedowns and back free endpaper lightly wormed with damage to ms. inscriptions.; Photocopy available for public use.; Published in Caen.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, FC5 M3118 511n
Collection:
Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania); French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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