Eloquentissimi viri ac p[rae]cipui oratorie artis doctoris . Augustini senens[is] de varijs loque[n]di regulis siue poetarum p[rae]ceptis . Tractatulus incipit feliciter..
Dati, Agostino,1420-1478.
Luder, Peter,active 15th century.
Guarino,Veronese,1374-1460.
Este, Leonello d',1407-1450.
Zell, Ulrich,-1503,printer.
Ellis, William,16th century,former owner.StEdNL
Sibbald, Robert,Sir,1641-1722,former owner.StEdNL
Oldham, J. Basil(James Basil),1882-1962,associated name.StEdNL
Franciscan Friary (Stirling, Scotland),former owner.StEdNL
[Cologne : Ulrich Zell,
approximately 1470]
Title from caption at incipit on leaf [a1] recto.
Imprint from ISTC.
For the Modus epistolandi of Petrus Luder, see BSB-Ink, D-16.
Spaces left blank for initials.
Signatures: [a-f⁸]
Paragraph marks supplied in red or blue and capitals coloured yellow. First large initial in red and blue with black pen flourishes in gutter margin.
Bound with Inc.31 and Inc.32.
With a letter pasted to front pastedown from J. B. Oldham, Librarian, Shrewsbury School Library dated 16 October 1949 to Mr Park at the National Library on the book's binding.
Augustinus Datus. Elegantiolae, [a1]r-[e3]r; [Praeceptorum summula], [i.e. Summa praeceptorum, extract], [e3]r-[e5]r; Petrus Luder. Modus epistolandi, entitled "Modus orandi", [e5]r-[f6]v; Guarinus [Veronensis]. Praecepta quaedam de ordine studendi, [addressed to] Leonellus d'Este, Duke of Modena and Ferrara, [f6]v-[f8]r.
BM 15th cent.,
BN cat. des incun.,
Bod-inc
BSB-Ink
GW
Hain
ISTC
Oates
Beattie, W. Supplement to the hand-list of incunabula in the National Library of Scotland,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Ink inscriptions on front flyleaf: pro fr[atr]ibus m[in]oribus in striuiling and Vvillmus Elleis. Bought by the Advocates Library at Robert Sibbald's sale 9 April 1723, Bibliotheca Sibbaldiana, p. 140, no. 18.
Original blind stamped leather over wooden boards with remains of clasps and later reback and repairs.
Latin language
Germany Cologne.