Quintilianum eloquentiae fontem
By: ab eruditissimo Omnibono Leoniceno emendatum
Contributors: Bonisoli, Ognibene, approximately 1412-1474, editor; Jenson, Nicolas, approximately 1420-1480, printer; Pico master, illuminator; Gale, Arthur, former owner; Breslauer, Martin, 1871-1940, former owner
Publisher: Nicolas Jenson
Published: 1471
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin; Ancient Rhetoric; Ancient Oratory
Other titles: Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: Institutiones oratoriae
Notes: Title and imprint from colophon ([22́] verso): M. Nicolaus Ienson Gallicus viventibus posterisque miro impressit artificio. Annis .M. CCCCLXXI. mense Maii die .XXI. Deo gratias.

Place of printing from ISTC.

Signatures: [1℗ø 2-22℗£́ʻ] ([22́́] blank).

Median folio (leaf dimensions: 34 x 24 cm); 39 lines per page; initial spaces without guide letters.

The dedicatory letter by Leonicenus ([2́] verso) credits Jenson as the inventor of printing.

Goff, Frederick R. Incunabula in American libraries, Q26

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, 168

Incunabula short title catalogue, iq00026000

Cataloged jmoschella 20161228

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early brown blind-tooled leather. The spine is rebacked in modern brown goat skin with the title stamped in gilt. Three of four early brass catches are present. All edges gilt and gauffered. The bookplate of Arthur Gale and the booksellers' label of Breslauer & Meyer are present on the front pastedown. Single blank leaves are inserted after [1́] and [2́]. Contains thirteen illuminated initials and an illuminated coat of arms attributed to the Master of the Pico Pliny, cf. Armstrong, Lilian. Studies of Renaissance miniaturists in Venice (London: Pindar, 2003) vol. 1, p. 317, no. 11. Armstrong identifies the arms on [2́] as those of the Frizier family of Venice. Early corrections are present throughout. The paper in this copy is heavily sized.