Opus minus secu[n]de partis Alexandri introductoriu[m] ad opus maius eiusdem perutile.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Alexander, de Villa Dei

Contributor:

• Zenders, William.
• Quentell, Heinrich, -1501, printer.
• Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

• Doctrinale puerorum. Pars 2

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

• Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500.
• Latin language--Grammar.

Genre:

• Incunabula.

Physical Description:

122 unnumbered leaves ; 20 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Goff title: Doctrinale. Pars II

Fingerprint:

it** esti deur *Qan (C) 1500 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Cologne] : [Heinrich Quentell], MCCCCC [1500]

Notes:

• Part 2 of a handbook of Latin grammar in verse form completed ca. 1200 by Alexander de Villa Dei (Villedieu), a Franciscan mathematician and author of educational works, with commentary by William Zenders of Weert. Cf. colophon.
• Title from leaf A1r (title leaf).
• Place of printing and printer's name supplied from ESTC.
• Date of printing from colophon, which reads: Finit dei gratia opus minus Secunde [par]tis Alexandri pro pueris clare breuiterq[ue] instrue[n]dis. per Guilhelmum zenders de werdt collectu[m] Et q[uae] illic breuitatis gratia. ne pueris fastidium et [pro]lixitate generet[ur] omissa sunt. in oper maiori cu[m] plurimis elega[n]tijs [et] questionib[us] scitu dignis in scholis disputa[n]dis. argume[n]tis [et] replicis annxeis [sic]. vt in logica Petri hyspani fecim[us] colligu[n]tur [et] absoluuntur feliciter. Anno d[omi]ni. M.ccccc.
• Chancery quarto. Leaf A5r: 40 lines, plus headline; area of text: 143 (152) x 87 mm. Printed initials and paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Rubrication not called for.
• Signatures: A-S⁶ T⁸ U⁶.

Local Notes:

• Penn Libraries copy bound with: Alexander, de Villa Dei. [Oratio congrua secundum mentem Alexandri]. [Nuremberg : Peter Wagner, ca. 1497]. (Goff A-456)
• Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf K2 wanting; gathering L misbound after leaf U6.
• Leaf size: 191 x 128 mm.
• Penn Libraries copy: leaf A1r (title leaf) has several early ms. drawings in brown ink and ms. inscription in brown ink at head of leaf; ms. notes in brown ink on leaf U6v; some ms. annotations in black or dark brown ink in text; several ms. underlines, marks and annotations and a few capital strokes in red ink (some much faded) in text; modern ms. foliation in pencil at head outer corner of leaves beginning with leaf A2r.
• Penn Libraries copy bound in full brown morocco; blind-ruled boards; 5 raised bands on spine; spine panels bounded horizontally with blind rules; brief titles ("Alexander de Villa Dei Doctrinale P.2" and "Oratio Congrua Secundum Mentem") lettered in gold on spine; all edges blue; evidence of finding tabs affixed to fore-edge of leaves M4, P2, S3 and U1.
• Penn Libraries copy: leaves cropped at all margins with damage to ms. marginalia; tail outer corner of leaves A1-A3 (including title leaf) damaged; leaf A3 torn and mended at fore-edge.

Cited in:

• Goff A-447
• BM 15th cent. I, 293 (IA.4736)
• GW 1176
• BSB-Ink. A-291
• ISTC ia00447000

OCLC:

481002703