Iohannis Tortellii Arretini Commentariorvm grammaticorvm de orthographia dictionvm e Graecis tractarvm prooemivm incipit ad sanctissimvm patrem Nicolavm Qvintvm Pontificem Maximvm
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Type of record: Book
Title: Iohannis Tortellii Arretini Commentariorvm grammaticorvm de orthographia dictionvm e Graecis tractarvm prooemivm incipit ad sanctissimvm patrem Nicolavm Qvintvm Pontificem Maximvm
Other titles: Commentariorum grammaticorum; Commentariorum grammaticorum de orthographia dictionum e Graecis tractarum prooemium incipit; De orthographia
Classmark: BC Incunabula/TOR
Creator(s): Tortelli, Giovanni (1400-1466)
Additional creator(s): Bologni, Girolamo (1454-1517) (Editor); Lichtenstein, Hermann (1494) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Bologni, Girolamo; Lichtenstein, Hermann; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: per Hermanu[m] Lichtenstein coloniensem; Hermannus Liechtenstein
Publication city: Venetiis [Venice]
Date(s): pridie Idus Nouembres accuratissime impressum: Anno salutis.M.CCCC.LXXXIIII. [12 November 1484]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [198] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/106217
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008152919705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: A⁸ B-M⁶ a-b⁸ c-u⁶.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on u5r reads: Ioannis Tortellii Arretini co[m]mentarior[um] gra[m]maticor[um] de Orthographia dictionu[m] e græcis tractar[um] opus per Hermanu[m] Lichtenstein coloniensem: Venetiis pridie Idus Nouembres accuratissime impressum: Anno salutis.M.CCCC.LXXXIIII.
Edited and with a poem (on leaf u5v) by Girolamo Bologni.
Printed with 57 long lines to a full page.
The first letter of each entry is set out.
The first and last leaves are blank.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. it00399000.
Indexed in: H.-C 15569; Goff T398.
Features
Occasional marginal annotations in black ink manuscript, late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century.
The title of the work is written in black ink manuscript on the recto of the first blank leaf (a1r).
Capital strokes supplied inconsistently in red.
Bindings
Eighteenth-century binding of full calf over pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are gold-tooled with a border of triple fillets. The spine has six raised bands each of which is gold-tooled with hatching. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Tortelly Commentary Gramatici. Gold-tooled at the base of the spine are the place and date: Venice 1484. In the sixth panel is the Brotherton Collection stamp in gold. The other panels are gold-tooled with a border of triple fillets containing a central ornament surrounded by stylised foliage. The pastedowns are of marbled paper featuring the comb pattern in red, orange, green, blue, pink and cream. The board edges and turn-ins are gold-tooled with a repeating design. The leaf edges have been cropped and are sprinkled red. The book has a green silk ribbon register and there is evidence that sections of the text were marked with tabs along the fore-edge. Watermark on the final blank leaf of a scales within a circle surmounted by a staff
and six-pointed star. Size: 310 x 225mm. Leaf size: 304 x 212 mm.
Provenance
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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