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Breuiloquus vocabularius.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reuchlin, Johann, 1455-1522.
- Standardized Title:
- Vocabularius breviloquus
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Latin language--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800.
- Latin language.
- Latin language--Dictionaries.
- Genre:
- Incunabula.
- Dictionaries.
- Penn Provenance:
- Götze, Ludwig, 1832-1878 (stamp)
- Physical Description:
- 330 unnumbered leaves (the last leaf blank) ; 31 cm (folio)
- Other Title:
- Breviloquus vocabularius
- Fingerprint:
- eras erto ete- gnEm (C) 1482 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Impressus Basile[a]e : [Johann Amerbach], Anno d[omi]ni Mcccclxxxij [1482]
- Contents:
- (from leaf pi1v) In presenti libro continentur. Item ars diphthongandi Guarini Veronensis
- Item compendiosus dialogus de arte punctandi
- Item tractatus vtilis de accentu
- Item Breuiloquus vocabularius.
- Notes:
- Contains, in addition to Johann Reuchlin's Vocabularius breviloquus, the Ars dipthongandi by Guarinus and De arte punctandi and De accentu by Johannes de Lapide. "For the attribution of the De arte punctandi to Guillaume Fichet rather than to Johannes de Lapide, see E. Beltran in Scriptorium, 39 (1985) 284-91 (Hillard 1733)"--ISTC.
- Title from incipit of text on leaf pi6v, which reads: Incipit Breuiloquus vocabularius.
- Printer's name supplied from ISTC. Place and date of printing from colophon on leaf '8'9v, which reads: Finit vocabularius breuiloquus. triplici alphabeto diuersis ex autoribus necnon corpore vtrius[que] iuris collectus ad latinu[m] sermone[m] capessendu[m] vtilissimus. Impressus Basile[a]e. Anno d[omi]ni M.cccc.lxxxij. Laus deo.
- Chancery folio, printed primarily in double columns. Leaf a2r: 54 lines to a full column; area of text: 217 x 135 mm.; col. width: 62 mm. Initial spaces with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.
- Signatures: pi⁶ a-r¹⁰ [long s]⁸ s¹⁰ t⁸ u¹⁰ v¹⁰ w¹⁰ x¹⁰ y¹² '1'-'5'¹⁰ '6'-'7'⁸ '8'¹⁰ (leaf '8'10 blank).
- Local Notes:
- Leaf size: 299 x 204 mm.
- Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: initials, paragraph marks, underlines and capital strokes supplied in red; two large initials supplied in red and blue (leaves '1'1r and '7'6v); one large colored and illuminated initial with floriate marginal extension on leaf a1r.
- Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. marginal notes in brown ink in text; ms. manicule in brown ink on leaf a8r.
- Penn Libraries copy has partially illegible German ms. inscription ("[...] [...] meinem freundtlichen gruss") in brown ink on leaf pi1r; partially illegible German ms. inscription ("[...] [...]ir [...]ssen dass K[...]i[...]en ist das [...]iche allen[?] [...] [...]") in brown ink on leaf p2r.
- Penn Libraries copy has blind stamp ("Dr. LUDWIG GÖTZE.") of Ludwig Götze in head outer corner of leaf pi1r; dated 17th-century autograph ("Joannes Petr[us] Lares Vic Anno Domini i653") of Joannes Petrus Lares on leaf m5v.
- Penn Libraries copy bound in one quarter red morocco over brown cloth; 5 raised bands on spine; author's surname, title, and place and date of imprint stamped in gold on spine.
- Penn Libraries copy imperfect: last leaf (blank) wanting.
- Penn Libraries copy: leaf c1 bound in out of order after leaf c9; gathering '7' bound in out of order after gathering '8'.
- Penn Libraries copy: intermittent worming of leaves, especially at beginning and end of volume, with occasional minor damage to text; leaves intermittently dampstained at head and/or tail margin; tail outer corner of leaf i3 torn off; leaf i10 torn and mended at head inner corner.
- Cited in:
- Goff R-159
- BM 15th cent. III, p. 747 (IB.37275)
- GW M37907
- BN cat. des incun. R-103
- BSB-Ink. R-147
- ISTC ir00159000
- Contains:
- Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460. Ars diphthongandi.
- Johannes, de Lapide, approximately 1425-1496. Compendiosus de arte punctandi dialogus.
- Johannes, de Lapide, approximately 1425-1496. De accentu.
- OCLC:
- 51706830
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