[Opera]
Priscian,active approximately 500-530.
Brugnolus, Benedictus,active 1504,editor.
Aingre, Johannes de.
Dionysius,Periegetes.Orbis terrae descriptio.
Arrivabene, Giorgio,active 1483-1520,printer.
Drummond, Gavin,-1748?,bookseller.StEdNL
[Venice] : Georgius Arriuabenus Mantuanus accurate diligenter[que] imprimer[et] adnixus est.,
anno Mcccclxxxviii. pridie nonas dece[m]bris. [4 December 1488]
Title from ISTC.
Caption at head of recto of a2: Cum omnis eloquentiae doctrinam: & omne studio[rum] genus: ... .
Edited by Benedictus Brognolus. Partly with a commentary by Joannes de Aingre.
Imprint and editors from colophon.
Opera include: De octo partibus orationis; De constructione; De duodecim carminibus; De numeris; De ponderibus et mensuris; De versibus comicis; De declinationibus.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Signatures: a-u⁸ x⁶ y-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ aa-ee⁸ ff⁶ A-L⁸ M⁶.
With an initial blank leaf.
Initial coloured on leaf a2 and A1.
With marginal annotations on a2 and a3.
BM 15th cent.,
Goff
GW
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Bought by the Advocates Library at Gavin Drummond's auction 11 February 1729 (fol. no. 39) for £0-12-4.
Parchment over boards.
Latin language
Italy Venice.