tit00399000

Text-inc Id:

tit00399000

Bod-inc Id:

T-225

Headings:

Tortellius, Johannes De orthographia (ed. Hieronymus Bononius).

Subjects:

grammar

Analysis of content:

1. 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.
2. 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.’
3. 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.’
4. 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.’
5. 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:

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:

A⁸ B–M⁶ a b⁸ c–u⁶. Spaces left blank for initials, without printed guide letters.

References:

Source: Bodleian; Venezia N ISTC: it00399000 HC *15569; Goff T‑399; BMC V 357; Pr 4787; BSB‑Ink T‑388; CIBN T‑295; Sack, Freiburg, 3487; Sheppard 3934. LCN: 14719668

Copies:

1. T-225(1) Copy 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.