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[Inscriptionum libellus].
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zacharias, Jacobus.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Letter writing, Latin--Early works to 1800.
- Letter writing, Latin.
- Forms of address--Early works to 1800.
- Forms of address.
- Genre:
- Incunabula.
- Physical Description:
- 34 unnumbered leaves (the first and last leaves blanks) ; 22 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Caption title (leaf [a]2r): Ad summum pontificem
- Fingerprint:
- peni s.s. dou. Exno (C) 1484 (Q)
- Place of Publication:
- [Rome] : [Georgius Herolt or Eucharius Silber], [1484?]
- Notes:
- "Edited by Gabriel Apollonius. Goff identifies Jacobus Zacharias with the Zaccarias who wrote De inductione formarum speculationes, but according to [BM 15th cent.] 'there seems to be no justification for this identification'"--Walsh.
- Title from Goff.
- Place of printing and imprint date from ISTC. (BM 15th cent. gives imprint date: ca. 1485. IGI gives: ca. 1480; BN cat. des incun. gives: ca. 1482-1483.)
- Printed in type 112R used by either Georgius Herolt or Eucharius Silber. Cf. BM 15th cent. ISTC gives Herolt in imprint but notes: "Also recorded as [Eucharius Silber]." Goff and IGI assign to Herolt; GW and BN cat. des incun. assign to Silber.
- Chancery quarto. Leaf [a]2v: 26 lines; area of text: 144 x 84 mm. Printed paragraph marks. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords.
- Signatures: [a]-[c]⁸ [d]¹⁰ (leaves [a]1 and [d]10 blanks).
- Dedicatory epistle begins: Gabriel Apollonius Andreae Brentio. S.D.
- Local Notes:
- Leaf size: 213 x 143 mm.
- Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.
- Penn Libraries copy has modern ms. foliation in pencil in head outer corner of leaves.
- Penn Libraries copy bound in full modern parchment.
- Penn Libraries copy: tear mended in tail margin of leaf [a]2.
- Cited in:
- Goff Z-12
- BM 15th cent. XII, p. 11 (IA.19220)
- GW M52022
- BN cat. des incun. Z-3
- IGI 10429
- Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1439
- ISTC iz00012000
- OCLC:
- 60569034
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