Bod-Inc: T-223
Tortellius, Johannes
De orthographia (ed. Hieronymus Bononius).
Analysis of Content
Subject: grammar
A3r Tortellius, Johannes: De Orthographia [edited by, as stated in his letter] Hieronymus Bononius. [Preface addressed to] Nicolaus V, Pont. Max. ‘Ioannis Tortellii Arretini commentariorum grammaticorum de Orthographia dictionum e Graecis tractarum Prooemium incipit ad sanctissimum patrem Nicolaum quintum pontificem maximum.’ Incipit: ‘[C]oeperam olim, beatissime pater Nicolae V. summe pontifex, commentaria quaedam ...’ A4r Explicit: ‘... multisque aliis approbatis auctoribus et Graecis et Latinis, quos suis locis commode inducemus.’ See T‑220.
A4r Tortellius, Johannes: De Orthographia. ‘Ioannis Tortellii Arretini Commentariorum grammaticorum de orthographia dictionum e Graecis tractarum liber primus incipit. De numero et figura atque inventione litterarum tam Graecarum quam Latinarum'.’ Incipit: ‘[G]raecorum litteras quibus ipsi nunc Graeci utuntur .xxiiii. esse constat videlicet ...’ &8r Explicit: ‘... Zuthus cum th. aspirato scribitur, fuit teste Homero in decimo Odysseae Aeoli filius ex Lepatra.’
&8r Colophon: ‘Ioannis Tortellii Arretini commentariorum grammaticorum de Orthographia dictionum e Graecis tractarum, opus per Stephanum Koblinger Viennensem Vicentiae accuratissime impressum Idibus Ianuariis Millesimo quadrigentesimo septuagesimo nono.’
&8r Bononius, Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Constantinus Robeganus. ‘Primario litterarii ordinis viro Constantino Robegano notario Tarvisano, Hieronymus | Bononius s.p.d.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uorundam hominum istis temporibus vaniloquentias, qui dum caeteris detrahunt sibi plurimum ascribere opinati ...’ &8v Explicit: ‘... culpam in me nullam relaturus benignus interpres. Tu interim bene vale et quod facis me ama.’
&8v Bononius, Hieronymus: Carmen. ‘Eiusdem Hieronimi Carmen in primi impressoris commendationem.’ Incipit: Tingere dispositis chartas quicunque metallis | Coepit et insignes edidit aere notas ... &9r Explicit: ‘... Artifici semper faveant pia numina sancto | Utilis effluxit cuius ab arte liber. [13 elegiac distichs]’
Imprint
Imprint: Vicenza Stephan Koblinger 13 Jan. 1479 Folio.
Secundo folio: A4r: de hac materia scripserunt, in qua tu illis duntaxat conditione est comparandus; A5r: At vero latini nostri praeter sexdecim antiquas litteras, quibus primitus ute-
Collation
Collation: A12 B–G10 H8 I10 K–N6.8 O12 a–e10 f–i8.10 k l6 m–o8 p6 q–s10 t12 u–y10 z6 &10.
Remarks: Spaces left blank for initials, without printed guide letters.
References
ISTC: it00397000
Hain: HC *15566;
Goff: Goff T‑397;
BMC: BMC VII 1043;
Proctor: Pr 7160;
Others: BSB‑Ink T‑386; CIBN T‑293; Oates 2681; Sheppard 5926.
LCN: 14719673
Copies
Copy number: T-223(1)
Wanting the blank leaves A1, A2, and &10. Leaves &4-7 are bound after z3.
Binding: Nineteenth-century(?) quarter light brown morocco over light brown pasteboards; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. On the spine imprint information is gilt on two rectangular square labels, in red and green leather; ‘S. M.' printed in gold at the foot of the spine. Sprinkled brown-edged leaves.
Size: 298 × 201 × 69 mm.
Size of leaf: 291 × 187 mm.
On &9r in Taraschoni's hand the following verses: ‘Stude puer pertransit etas mox frigida parce . . .' 10 lines; on &9v the following note in the same hand: ‘Nota como adi xvii de zugno 1493 in martidi mori Io. Laurentio Taraschon nostro fratello a Roma, era per farse uno homo dasay sel scampana, et ala sua morte se ghe trouo Io. Euangialista e Bernardo nostri fratelli. Deo sit semper laus honor gloria amen. Item eo anno die 19 augusti Johannes Euangialista va lontani detentus. Die 12 februari 1494 euassit, Romam apprehenditur(?)'. A few marginal notes, mainly translating Greek words into Latin, in an early hand, probably Taraschoni's, in brown ink.
On A3r a large Italian initial ‘C' is supplied in pink with darker pink and white pen-work decoration within a square gold ground edged in black. The area defined by the letter is decorated with a large thistle in gold, green, and red on a blue ground with white pen-work decoration; see Pächt and Alexander II, 114 no. pr. 137 (Lombardy?). Other main initials are supplied in red or blue, or red and blue, with reserved white decoration and elaborate red pen-work. Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; capital strokes in red, in red and blue in the heading on A3r.
Provenance: Ambrogio Taraschoni (fl. 1493-1494); inscription on &9r: ‘Hic liber est mej Ambrogij Taraschonj q[uondam] dominj Bartolamej filius qui fuit uir somme probitatis conspicuus'; in the lower margin of A4r, within a wreath the coat of arms of Taraschoni. Parma, Benedictines, St John Evangelist, 1535; inscription on A4r on either side of the wreath: ‘Conuentus Parme | 137' and on A9r: ‘Conuentus Parme 1535'. Anonymous sale (Evans, 13 Jan. 1825), lot 840. Purchased for £8. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1825), 25.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 2.9.
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