Accession number
PML 79724
Creator
Donatus, Aelius.
Object title
Ars minor (Rudimenta grammatices).
Published
[Ulm] : [Johann Zainer], [approximately 1478-1482]
Description
[34?] leaves ; 22.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Gift of Felix de Marez Oyens, 1988.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC/GW.
Dated at PML; GW dates about 1480-1490. On the date, see Amelung, Frühdruck I p.46.
Printed in Zainer's type 5:136G.
Collation unknown. Perhaps 34 leaves in total as in GW 8995 (edition dated about 1480-1490).
Paper format: Median quarto.
Janua also recorded as Donatus minor (i.e., Rudimenta grammatices). For identification of the text as the medieval grammar Janua see W. O. Schmitt, "Die Ianua (Donatus) -- ein Beitrag zur lateinischen Schulgrammatik des Mittelalters und der Renaissance," Beiträge zur Inkunabelkunde, 3e Folge 4 (1969) pp. 43-80.
PML copy (only known copy) is only 3 leaves: the first leaf and the final bifolium.
Leaf 1 begins, "Janua sum rudib[us] prima[m] cupidentib[us] artem..." and on the 9th line with a large initial space left, "[P]OETA Que pars est..." The bifolium contains the Distica Catonis and concludes, "Cato feliciter finit."
PML copy leaf dimensions: 22.3 x 17 cm.
Dated at PML; GW dates about 1480-1490. On the date, see Amelung, Frühdruck I p.46.
Printed in Zainer's type 5:136G.
Collation unknown. Perhaps 34 leaves in total as in GW 8995 (edition dated about 1480-1490).
Paper format: Median quarto.
Janua also recorded as Donatus minor (i.e., Rudimenta grammatices). For identification of the text as the medieval grammar Janua see W. O. Schmitt, "Die Ianua (Donatus) -- ein Beitrag zur lateinischen Schulgrammatik des Mittelalters und der Renaissance," Beiträge zur Inkunabelkunde, 3e Folge 4 (1969) pp. 43-80.
PML copy (only known copy) is only 3 leaves: the first leaf and the final bifolium.
Leaf 1 begins, "Janua sum rudib[us] prima[m] cupidentib[us] artem..." and on the 9th line with a large initial space left, "[P]OETA Que pars est..." The bifolium contains the Distica Catonis and concludes, "Cato feliciter finit."
PML copy leaf dimensions: 22.3 x 17 cm.
Binding
Disbound, in folder.
Variant title
Rudimenta grammatices
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Leaves likely used as binder's waste, with manuscript offset on two leaves; Jacques Rosenthal, Feb. 1928, letter from GW Kommission (in dept. ChL folder); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Felix de Marez Oyens, 1988.
Classification
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