Bod-Inc: T-225
Tortellius, Johannes
De orthographia (ed. Hieronymus Bononius).
Analysis of Content
Subject: grammar
A2r Tortellius, Johannes: De Orthographia [edited by, as stated in his letter] Hieronymus Bononius. [Preface addressed to] Nicolaus V, Pont. Max. ‘Iohannis Tortellii Arretini commentariorum grammaticorum de Orthographia dictonum e Graecis tractarum Prooemium incipit ad sanctissimum patrem Nicolaum quintum pontificem maximum.’ Incipit: ‘[C]oeperam olim, beatissime pater Nicolae V. summe pontifex, commentaria quaedam grammatica condere ...’ A1v Explicit: ‘... Appiano, Diodoro Siculo, multisque aliis approbatis auctoribus et Graecis et Latinis, quos suis locis commode inducemus.’ See T‑220.
A2v Tortellius, Johannes: De Orthographia. ‘Iohannis 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 ...’ u5r Explicit: ‘... Zuthus cum th. aspirato scribitur, fuit teste Homero in x. Odysseae Aeoli filius ex Lepatra.’
u5r Colophon: ‘Ioannis Tortellii Arretini commentariorum grammaticorum de Orthographia dictionum e Graecis tractarum, opus per Hermanum Lichtenstein Coloniensem, Venetiis, pridie Idus Novembres accuratissime impressum, anno salutis M.CCCCLXXXIIII.’
u5r Bononius, Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Constantinus Robeganus. ‘Primario litterarii ordinis viro Constantino Robegano notario Tarvisano Hieronymus Bononius .p.s.d.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uorundam hominum istis temporibus vaniloquentias, qui dum caeteris detrahunt sibi plurimum ascribere opinati ...’ u5v Explicit: ‘... Nec tamen tales hi erunt errores, ut non facillime castigaturus sit culpam in me nullam relaturus benignus interpres. Tu interim bene vale, et quod facis me ama.’
u5v Bononius, Hieronymus: ‘Carmen in primi impressoris commendationem'.’ [Verse] Incipit: Tingere dispositis chartas quicunque metallis | Coepit et insignes edidit aere notas ... Explicit: ‘... Artifici semper faveant pia numina sancto | Utilis effluxit cuius ab arte liber. | L.V.F. [13 elegiac distichs]’
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Hermannus Liechtenstein, 12 Nov. 1484. Folio.
Secundo folio: A3r invenere figuras, quibus necessario aspiratio comprehendi detinerique debeat, et sic [th] litteram in se dulci
Collation
Collation: A8 B–M6 a b8 c–u6.
Remarks: Spaces left blank for initials, without printed guide letters.
References
ISTC: it00399000
Hain: HC *15569;
Goff: Goff T‑399;
BMC: BMC V 357;
Proctor: Pr 4787;
Others: BSB‑Ink T‑388; CIBN T‑295; Sack, Freiburg, 3487; Sheppard 3934.
LCN: 14719668
Copies
Copy number: T-225(1)
Wanting the blank leaf A1.
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century Italian half green morocco over marbled pasteboards; bound for Boutourlin; pink pastedowns; endpapers watermarked ‘G[ior.] M[agnani]'.
Size: 322 × 220 × 38 mm.
Size of leaf: 315 × 219 mm.
A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words and ‘nota' marks to the entries ‘Tiresia', ‘Thrasumenus', ‘Xenocrates', and ‘Zeno', in a contemporary humanist hand in dark brown ink.
On A2r a large Italian (north Italy?) initial ‘C' is supplied in gold on a square dark red ground with silver(?) pen-work decoration; the area defined by the letter is blue with white pen-work decoration. From the letter blue, red, and green foliate extensions into the margin, and gold dots; see Pächt and Alexander II, 115 no. pr. 149.
Provenance: On A2r a wreath surrounded by foliate decoration and gold dots contains the following unidentified coat of arms: azure, three birds or, two confronting and one; a label of Anjou: four points gules, and between, three fleur-de-lis of the second. Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); shelfmark no. 347, see Catalogue (1831); purchased at his sale for £0. 15. 0: see sale catalogue (1841), lot 673, and Books Purchased (1842), 42.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 2.7.
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