Catholicon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balbi, Giovanni, -1298

Contributor:

Locatelli, Boneto, active 1486-1523, printer.

Scotto, Ottaviano, -1498, publisher.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Latin language--Dictionaries--Early works to 1700.

Latin language.

Latin language--Dictionaries.

Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1800.

Latin language--Grammar.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 15th century.

Dictionaries.

Penn Provenance:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)

Physical Description:

1 unnumbered leaf, 2-312 leaves ; 31 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

eume .&en S*es noti (3) 1495 (A)

Place of Publication:

I[m]pressum Venetijs : Ingenio Boneti Locatelli mandante ... Octauiano Scoto ..., Anno natalis domini. i495. 12. Kalendas decembres [20 Nov. 1495]

Notes:

Title from title-leaf. Author from incipit on leaf a2r, which reads: Incipit summa que vocatur Catholicon edita a fratre Joanne de Janua: ordinis fratrum p[re]dicatorum.

Imprint from colophon, which reads: Finit opus p[re]cla[rum] dictu[m] Catholicon: editu[m] a fratre Joa[n]ne Januensi ordinis fratru[m] p[re]dicato[rum] [quem] diligentissime emendatu[m] at[que] correctu[m] Et i[m]pressum Venetijs ingenio Boneti Locatelli mandante nobili viro D[omi]no Octauiano Scoto ciue modoetie[n]si. Anno natalis domini. i495. 12. Kalendas decembres. Laus Deo.

Signatures: a-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-N⁸.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf a4r: 66 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 243 (250) x 164 mm.; col. width: 79 mm. Printed initials. Printed paragraph marks. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords. Rubrication not called for. Register on verso of title leaf. Device of Ottaviano Scotto on recto of last leaf.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 299 x 205 mm.

Provenance: From the library of Henry Charles Lea. With his bookplate affixed to front pastedown and his autograph (1893) on recto of front free endpaper.

Bound in full vellum with ms. author and title on spine.

Front free endpaper has bookseller's printed description of another ed. pasted to center of leaf and a few ms. notes in pencil in Lea's hand concerning the author and the work on lower portion of leaf.

Text has some ms. marginal notes, marks and underlines; ms. inscription ("Hic est Fratris Sebastiani") on title leaf; ms. notes in Latin and Italian on verso of last printed leaf; ms. correction of folio number on leaf i6r; ms. correction of text on leaf q7r; first two leaves of gathering F (signed "E" and "E2") corrected in ms. to "F" and "F2", respectively; first leaf of gathering L unsigned.

Cited in:

Goff B-33

BM 15th cent. V, p. 445 (IB. 22928)

GW 3201

BSB-Ink. B-19

ISTC ib00033000

OCLC:

259234581