P. Francisci Nigri A. Veneti sacerdotis, artiumq[ue] doctoris, breuis gra[m]matica ad splendidissimu[m] equitem leonardu[m] bottam, pro serenissimo duce mediolani, apud illustrissimu[m] ueneto[rum] senatu[m] oratore[m] facundissimimu[m].
Negri, Francesco,1452-approximately 1523author.
Santritter, Joannes Lucilius,publisher.
Theodor,von Würzburg,printer.
Manzoni, Giacomo,1816-1889,former owner.StEdNL
Impressu[m] e[st] hoc op[us] Venetiis : [Theodorus Herbipolensis, Francus for Johannes Lucilius Santritter],
anno salutis MCCCCLXXX XII cal. April [21 Mar. 1480]
Five musical examples (leaves [con]6-[con]8 verso)--illustrating the section "Harmonia", are probably the oldest specimen of measured music printed from type. The notes are printed without the staff. cf. L.C. Catalogue of early books on music. Suppl., p. 83.
Title from beginning of text, leaf a3.
Imprint date and location from colophon, transposed (date appears first); printer's and publisher's names appear in the verse above the date and place, form taken from ISTC.
Signatures: a-i⁸ k⁸(+chi1) l-[long s]⁸ s-z⁸ [con]⁸ & ⁸ [rum]⁸ 2a-2c⁸ 2d⁶.
For variant states see BM 15th cent.
Initials on a1 and a3 supplied in ink.
With occasional marginal annotations.
Goff
Hain
GW
BM 15th cent.,
ISTC
Beattie, W. Supplement to the hand-list of incunabula in the National Library of Scotland,
A few capital spaces.
Faded inscriptions and device with initials N A below on rear pastedown. 18th-century? inscription at head of first leaf: [?] Ame Bo.[?] Felice Arisio suv a'mo [??] quinto duodecim[?]. With booklabel on front pastedown: Ex libris Jacobj Manzoni. Bought by the Library from the Lauriston Castle Fund 20 July 1943.
Quarter leather with one clasp and remains of another. Front pastedown is printed waste from 16th?-century Italian poem on Pontius Pilate. Rear pastedown is late 12th or early 13th-century vellum manuscript waste of part of Psalm 143.
Latin language
Musical meter and rhythm
Italy Venice.