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Aldi Pii Manutii institutionum grammaticarum libri quatuor : qu[a]e quoq[ue] libro continentur hanc volventi chartam statim se offerunt

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Summary
An early edition of Aldus Manutius' popular Latin grammar, first printed in 1493, and followed by at least 29 editions through 1589.
Language
  • lat
  • heb
  • grc
  • lat
Work
Publication
Extent
[8], CCXV, [21] leaves
Note
  • Imprint from colophon on p. [1] of third foliation sequence
  • This is the earliest dated book issued at Toscolano on Lake Garda ("apud Lacum Benacensem") by Alessandro Paganino, who had already printed at Venice (1513-1517) and Salo.̀
  • Signatures: aa8, A-Z8 AA-DD8, a-b8 chi8
  • Title page printed in red; first gathering printed in black and red; remainder of text printed in black, in small roman type; spaces left for capitals, with guide letters. Paganino was known for having introduced roman fonts with italic tendencies, and a minute italic, which resembles that used at Bologna by Francesco Griffio, who may have been its designer
  • Each of Special Collection's copies is slightly variant from the description in Nuovo: c.1 lacks the subtitle on the t.p.; in c.2, the N gathering has been completely reset in gothic type, with the foliation on those leaves (97-104) set in Arabic numerals.
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Aldi Pii Manutii institutionum grammaticarum libri quatuor : qu[a]e quoq[ue] libro continentur hanc volventi chartam statim se offerunt
Title
Aldi Pii Manutii institutionum grammaticarum libri quatuor
Title remainder
qu[a]e quoq[ue] libro continentur hanc volventi chartam statim se offerunt
Title variation
  • Aldi Pii Manvutii institutionvum grammaticarvm libri qvatvor
  • Institutionum grammaticarum libri quatuor
  • Institutionvum grammaticarvm libri qvatvor
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Language
  • lat
  • heb
  • grc
  • lat
Summary
An early edition of Aldus Manutius' popular Latin grammar, first printed in 1493, and followed by at least 29 editions through 1589.
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MNT
Citation location within source
  • 47
  • CNCE 27953
Citation source
  • Nuovo, A. Alessandro Paganino
  • EDIT 16
Index
no index present
Language note
In Latin, with some sections in Greek and Hebrew
Literary form
non fiction
Summary expansion
The work opens with several pages of syllables, and is then divided into four parts: nouns, pronouns and declensions; verbs and conjugations; syntax; and pronunciation. At the end a short treatise is appended on Greek letters and diphthongs and how they came down to us," followed by the Pater Noster, Symbolum Apostolorum, etc. in Latin and Greek, and finally, a Hebrew alphabet
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Aldi Pii Manutii institutionum grammaticarum libri quatuor : qu[a]e quoq[ue] libro continentur hanc volventi chartam statim se offerunt
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Imprint from colophon on p. [1] of third foliation sequence
  • This is the earliest dated book issued at Toscolano on Lake Garda ("apud Lacum Benacensem") by Alessandro Paganino, who had already printed at Venice (1513-1517) and Salo.̀
  • Signatures: aa8, A-Z8 AA-DD8, a-b8 chi8
  • Title page printed in red; first gathering printed in black and red; remainder of text printed in black, in small roman type; spaces left for capitals, with guide letters. Paganino was known for having introduced roman fonts with italic tendencies, and a minute italic, which resembles that used at Bologna by Francesco Griffio, who may have been its designer
  • Each of Special Collection's copies is slightly variant from the description in Nuovo: c.1 lacks the subtitle on the t.p.; in c.2, the N gathering has been completely reset in gothic type, with the foliation on those leaves (97-104) set in Arabic numerals.
Dimensions
13 cm (16mo)
Extent
[8], CCXV, [21] leaves
Note
  • Spec. Coll. copy 1: bound in brown morocco; gilt arms on upper and lower covers of Henri-Eugène-Philippe-Louis d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale, with his motto "J'attendrai;" inner gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. Binder's stamp on verso of front endleaf of Hippolite Duru, "Duru 1857." In modern beige cloth and and brown leather clamshell box with gold-stamped box title "Institutionum grammaticarum. Manuzio. 1519." Purchase, Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 1992.
  • Spec. Coll. copy 2: new vellum binding; gold-stamped tan and brown letterpieces, with title "Aldi Pii Manutii Institutionum grammaticarum. Tusc. Paganin. 1519." Printed shelf mark label on front pastedown with heading "Mon Treuil." Purchase, Carlo Alberto Chiesa, 1993.
System control number
  • (OCoLC)17560467
  • ucoclc17560467
Label
Aldi Pii Manutii institutionum grammaticarum libri quatuor : qu[a]e quoq[ue] libro continentur hanc volventi chartam statim se offerunt
Publication
Note
  • Imprint from colophon on p. [1] of third foliation sequence
  • This is the earliest dated book issued at Toscolano on Lake Garda ("apud Lacum Benacensem") by Alessandro Paganino, who had already printed at Venice (1513-1517) and Salo.̀
  • Signatures: aa8, A-Z8 AA-DD8, a-b8 chi8
  • Title page printed in red; first gathering printed in black and red; remainder of text printed in black, in small roman type; spaces left for capitals, with guide letters. Paganino was known for having introduced roman fonts with italic tendencies, and a minute italic, which resembles that used at Bologna by Francesco Griffio, who may have been its designer
  • Each of Special Collection's copies is slightly variant from the description in Nuovo: c.1 lacks the subtitle on the t.p.; in c.2, the N gathering has been completely reset in gothic type, with the foliation on those leaves (97-104) set in Arabic numerals.
Dimensions
13 cm (16mo)
Extent
[8], CCXV, [21] leaves
Note
  • Spec. Coll. copy 1: bound in brown morocco; gilt arms on upper and lower covers of Henri-Eugène-Philippe-Louis d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale, with his motto "J'attendrai;" inner gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. Binder's stamp on verso of front endleaf of Hippolite Duru, "Duru 1857." In modern beige cloth and and brown leather clamshell box with gold-stamped box title "Institutionum grammaticarum. Manuzio. 1519." Purchase, Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 1992.
  • Spec. Coll. copy 2: new vellum binding; gold-stamped tan and brown letterpieces, with title "Aldi Pii Manutii Institutionum grammaticarum. Tusc. Paganin. 1519." Printed shelf mark label on front pastedown with heading "Mon Treuil." Purchase, Carlo Alberto Chiesa, 1993.
System control number
  • (OCoLC)17560467
  • ucoclc17560467

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