Clarissimi viri ac presta[n]tissimi ph[ilosoph]ie doctoris Augustini dachi [sic] Senensis de varijs loquendi figuris siue de modo dicta[n]di ad Andream ciuem Senensem ysagogicus libellus Jncipit feliciter..
Pseudo-Datus.
Dati, Agostino,1420-1478.
Capaccius, Andreas,active 15th century,dedicatee.
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 1470-1472]
Title from caption at incipit on leaf [a1] recto.
Imprint from ISTC.
Dated by BN cat. des incun., D46.
Spaces left blank for initials.
Signatures: [a-c⁸].
Paragraph marks supplied in red or blue and capitals coloured yellow. First large initial in red.
Bound with Inc.31 and Inc.33.
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.
Below the last line of print there begins a form of excommunication in Scots, which, together with prayers etc., which follow it, extends to four more leaves.
[Pseudo-] Augustinus Datus. Rhetorica minor, [addressed to] Andreas [Capaccius] Senensis, [a1]r-[c7]r; [Augustinus Datus?]. "Epistola inuitatoria", [c7]r; [Augustinus Datus?]. "De reuentu ad patriam", [c7]r-v; [Augustinus Datus?]. "De vtilitate facta p[ro] amico . C. scribit apio", [c7]v-[c8]r; [Augustinus Datus?]. "Epistola narratoria", [c8]r; [Augustinus Datus?]. "De honore amici acquisito", [c8]r; [Augustinus Datus?]. "Q[uo]d sepe debet scribi", [c8]r-v; [Augustinus Datus?]. "De fortuna amici exp[ri]menda", [addressed to the reader], [c8]v.
BM 15th cent.,
BN cat. des incun.,
Bod-inc
BSB-Ink
Copinger
GW
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.
Original blind stamped leather over wooden boards with remains of clasps and later reback and repairs.
Rhetoric, Medieval
Germany Cologne.