Quintilianus
Subtitle: cum commento
Publisher: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus
Published: 1500
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Ancient Rhetoric; Ancient Oratory
Work titles: Institutiones oratoriae
Notes: There are two editions with the same colophon, one a page-for-page reprint of the other. In the true 1493 edition, the printer's device on [rum]5v measures 90 x 57 mm. (Husung 198), and the penultimate quire is signed [con]. In the reprint ed. ([after 1500]), the printer's device on [rum]5v measures 83 x 51 mm. (Husung 199), and the penultimate quire is signed [us].

Colophon (leaf [rum]4v): Venetiis per Bonetum Locatellum: mandato ac sumptibus Nobilis Viri Octauiani Scoti Ciuis Modoetienses [sic] Anno ab incarnatio[n]e Redemptoris nostri Christi Iesu Optimi Maximiq[ue] .M.CCCCLXCIII. [sic] XVI. Kalendas Sextiles.

Signatures: pi², a-z⁸ &⁸ [us]⁶ [rum]⁶ ([rum]6 blank).

Text surrounded by 61 lines of commentary.

White-on-black woodcut initials at beginning of each book; initial spaces, with guide-letters, elsewhere; woodcut diagrams in text.

Leaf [rum]5v: Register and woodcut printer's device (Husung 199).

Includes the commentary of Raphaello Regius.

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), iq0029000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2345b.