Modus epistolandi Francisci Nigri cum epistolis exe[m]plarib[us] annexis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Negri, Francesco, 1452-approximately 1523.

Contributor:

Kachelofen, Konrad, -1528 or 1529, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Modus epistolandi

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Letter writing, Latin--Early works to 1800.

Letter writing, Latin.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Bearer impressions (Printing) -- Germany -- Leipzig -- 15th century.

Penn Provenance:

Lossek(?), Joannes (former owner) (inscription)

Physical Description:

46 unnumbered leaves (the last leaf blank) ; 21 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

tari m*io tame muso (C) 1490 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Leipzig] : [Konrad Kachelofen], [1490-1495]

Notes:

Title from title leaf (leaf a1r).

Title leaf reads: Modus epistolandi. Fran || cisci Nigri cum epistolis ex || e[m]plarib[us] annexis. Hain and GW record a variant setting of title leaf: Modus epistola[n]di. Fran= || cisci Nigri cum epistolis || exemplaribus annexis.

Imprint from ISTC. "BSB-Ink dates 1490-95; Goff dated 1487-95; Ohly-Sack dated about 1495"--ISTC.

Chancery quarto. Leaf a2r: 33 lines; area of text: 145 x 94 mm. Initial spaces. Printed paragraph marks on leaves g1v-h2v. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Uninked bearer impressions on blank leaf h4 (1 line at head of leaf, 5 lines at foot).

Signatures: a⁸ b-f⁶ g-h⁴ (leaf h4 blank).

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 201 x 139 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: initials supplied by a reader in blue on leaves a2r-a3r; initial, capital strokes, underline and a few interlinear annotations supplied by a reader in red on leaf d3v; paragraph marks, capital strokes and puncti supplied by a reader in red on leaves d4v-d5r.

Penn Libraries copy: a few early ms. guide-letters supplied by a reader in brown ink; copious early ms. marginal and interlinear annotations in brown ink (in more than one hand?) in text; ms. notes in Latin and Polish, including transcriptions of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Deprecatoria ad Deum, l. 7-10 and Arrigo da Settimello's De diversitate fortunae et philosophiae consolatione, lib. 3, l. 59-60 and 57.

Penn Libraries copy has partially illegible early ms. ownership inscription ("Sum Ioannis lossek[?] a p[...]erocz[...] & amicoru[m]") in red-brown ink at foot of leaf a1v.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves cropped at all margins with damage to ms. marginalia.

Cited in:

Goff N-231

BM 15th cent. III, p. 630 (IA.11675)

GW M27021 (var.)

BSB-Ink. N-192

ISTC in00231000

Hain *11861 (var.)

OCLC:

79718969