Incipit Aurea grammatica pueror[um] dictis fulcita fere omniu[m] maior[um] et p[rae]sertim Pristiani et Nicolai Perotti Sipo[n]tini sup[er] textu doctoris irrefragabilis Alexa[n]dri : qua pueris g[ra]matellis b[e]n[e?] masticata rediment[] t[y]pa multa. pueri q[ue] manicabu[n]t veloci[ter] ad altiora..
Alexander,de Villa Dei
Creussner, Friedrich,active 1472-1499,printer.
Ruddiman, Thomas,1674-1757,former owner.StEdNL
[Nuremberg : Friedrich Creussner,
ca. 1485]
Signatures: [a-m⁸ n-p⁶ q⁸].
First and last leaves are blank.
Initials supplied in red and blue. Early quires have copious rubrication and annotation in a contemporary hand. Between the third and fourth sheets of the the third quire is inserted a sheet, of which the first leaf is blank (with watermark of an ox head surmounted by a cross and a serpent wreathed, as in Briquet 15375) and the second has on the recto an additional passage written and rubricated in the same 15th-century hand.
Bound with Adv.MS.81.5.13, a criticism of the work written and rubricated in the same hand.
GW
ISTC
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,
Bookplate of Thomas Ruddiman on front pastedown. Acquired by the Advocates Library at the sale of Ruddiman's library, February 1758 (lot 1481).
18th-century red morocco.
Latin language
Germany Nuremberg.