De quantitate sillaba[rum].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mittelhus, Georg, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Latin language--Metrics and rhythmics--Early works to 1800.

Latin language.

Latin language--Metrics and rhythmics.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Printers' devices (Printing) -- France -- Paris -- 15th century.

Penn Provenance:

Balduinus Dionysius (former owner) (inscription)

Beuieth(?), Ludovicus (inscription)

Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (Abbey) (former owner) (inscription)

Benedictines (Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, France) (former owner) (inscription)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Title from explicit: Regule gra[m]maticales

Fingerprint:

e.nt s.se *.ub men- (C) 1495 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Paris] : Impresse per Georgiu[m] Mittelhus, [1495?]

Notes:

Place and date of printing from ISTC, following GW. Goff and BSB-Ink give: ca. 1492.

Printer's name from colophon on leaf a6r, which reads: Expliciu[n]t regule gra[m]maticales. Impresse per Georgiu[m] mittelhus.

Chancery quarto. Leaf a3r: 36 lines; area of text: 132 x 87 mm. Initial spaces with guide letters. Printed paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Woodcut printer's device (108 x 77 mm.) of Georg Mittelhus on title leaf; cf. Renouard no. 779.

Signatures: a⁶.

Reprinted from: De quantitate syllabarum ([Paris]: Antoine Caillaut, [ca. 1493]). Cf. GW.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 195 x 115 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: initials, underlines, capital and paragraph mark strokes supplied in red; red initial "m" on leaf a2r accompanied by a sketch of a face in red ink.

Penn Libraries copy: signature mark ("a iiij") supplied in ms. at foot of leaf a4r; early Latin ms. inscription (portions damaged) on leaf a6v.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1956.

Penn Libraries copy has at head of title leaf dated 17th-century ms. ownership inscription ("Bibliothecae S. Amandi in Pabula 1634") of the Benedictine Abbaye de Saint-Amand (Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, France); at foot of title leaf dated 16th-century inscription ("Frater balduinus Dionysius hunc a fratre Ludouico Beuieth[?] dono librum accepit Anno 1569 [...]ro libro Ludouice sibi dent fata perhennis Munera laetitiae") recording the gift of this volume to Balduinus Dionysius by Ludovicus Beuieth(?), both probably monks of Saint-Amand. (For another instance of Balduinus Dionysius's provenance in a ms. of Saint-Amand, cf. J. Mangeart, Catalogue descriptif et raisonné des manuscrits de la bibliothèque de Valenciennes (Paris: Techener, 1860), no. 429.)

Penn Libraries copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy affixed to front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy bound in modern one-quarter brown morocco over marbled paper boards; 5 raised, blind-ruled bands on spine; blind-ruled spine panels; title ("DE QUANTITATE SILLABARUM") and imprint ("PARISIIS MITTELHUS CIRCA 1488") stamped in gold on spine; marbled endpapers; several blank leaves inserted at beginning and end of volume.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves a1-a4 mended with a blank leaf at fore-edge.

Cited in:

Goff Q-13

GW 11116

BSB-Ink. D-61

ISTC iq00013180

OCLC:

249364408