[Oratio congrua secundum mentem Alexandri].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexander, de Villa Dei

Contributor:

Wagner, Peter, active 1483-1500, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

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

Latin language.

Latin language--Grammar.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered leaves ; 20 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Text begins: Oratio congrua est vox [signifi]catiua co[m]plexa et co[m]plexum in proposito

Fingerprint:

neus c.is utbi iuli (C) 1497 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Nuremberg] : [Peter Wagner], [1497?]

Notes:

Title and imprint supplied from Goff.

Chancery quarto. Leaf a2v: 34 lines; area of text: 149 x 100 mm. One large floriated woodcut initial (leaf a1r); initial spaces with guide-letters. Printed paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: a-b⁶ c⁴.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Alexander, de Villa Dei. Opus minus secu[n]de partis Alexandri introductoriu[m] ad opus maius eiusdem perutile. [Cologne : Heinrich Quentell], MCCCCC [1500]. (Goff A-447)

Leaf size: 191 x 128 mm.

Rubrication: woodcut initial (leaf a1r) hand-colored in red; initials and capital strokes supplied in red; ms. headline supplied in red on leaf a3r; a few ms. marginal inscriptions in red.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. inscription in brown ink and 2 ms. drawings (1 in red ink; 1 in brown and red ink) at foot of leaf c4v; modern ms. foliation ("121"-"136") in pencil at head outer corner of leaves.

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.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves cropped at all margins with damage to ms. marginalia; gathering c dampstained at head of leaves.

Cited in:

Goff A-456

GW 1222

ISTC ia00456000

OCLC:

481002972