Ioannis Tortellii Arretini Commentariorum grammaticorum de orthographia dictionum e Graecis tractarum prooemium incipit ...
Publisher: Nicolas Jenson
Published: 1471
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Latin language; Grammar; Early works to 1500; Dictionaries; Orthography and spelling; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Ioannis Tortellii Arretini commentariorvm grammaticorvm de orthographia dictionvm e Graecis tractarum prooemivm incipit; Commentariorum grammaticorum de orthographia dictionum e Graecis tractarum prooemium incipit
Work titles: De orthographia
Notes: Title from incipit (leaf 1/2r).

Colophon (leaf 31/9v): Ioannis Tortellii Arretini commentariorum de orthographia dictionum e Graecis tractarum opus finit .M.CCCC.LXXI. per Nicolaum Ienson Gallicum Venetiis feliciter impressum. Deo gratias.

Signatures: [1-3¹⁰ 4⁸ 5-8¹⁰ 9-10⁸ 11-13¹⁰ 14⁸ 15-19¹⁰ 20⁸ 21-24¹⁰ 25⁸ 26-31¹⁰]; 1/1, 31/10 blank.

Initial spaces.

Printed on sheets of "royal"-size paper.

Sheets 7/2.9, 16/3.8, and 21/1.10 are known in variant settings. Cf. BM 15th cent. and CIBN.

Hain, 15564*=15568.

Proctor 4081.

Goff, T-395.

CIBN, T-290.

BM 15th cent., V, 170 (IC.19647).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), it00395000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1562-1563.

Bequest; William King Richardson; 1951; 50R-68F.

Imperfect: wormed at end, affecting text in several quires.

For list of textual variants in this copy, see Walsh; the reading in this copy agree with those in Inc 4081.

Initial on 1/2r illuminated in gold and colors; those elsewhere added in red or blue.

MS ownership notation cut out from blank leaf at front, but date "1659" remains.

Bound in modern olive morocco, edges sprinkled blue.