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QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius (c. 35-95). Institutiones oratoriae. Edited by Omnibonus Leonicenus (d.1493). [Venice:] Nicolaus Jenson, 21 May 1471.
Median 2 (310 x 215mm). Collation as BMC. 209 (of 212, lacking 2 index leaves and without final blank). 39 lines. Type 1:115R. Initial spaces and spaces left for Greek. Late-18th-century red morocco, gilt roll-tooled border, gilt spine, g.e. Provenance: Greek supplied for the lacunae in a neat contemporary hand; Dukes of Devonshire, Chatsworth Library (bookplate).
THIRD EDITION, preceeded by two Rome editions printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz. In his dedicatory letter, the editor praises Jenson as the inventor of printing, a claim condemned as a clear lie by the Cologne Chronicle in 1499. Quintilian's pedagogical treatise on classical rhetoric, his only extant complete work, covers not only the training of an orator but also general educational theory, ancient literary criticism and the technicalities of rhetoric. Nearly forgotten during the Middle Ages, the Institutiones oratoriae was rediscovered during the Renaissance and exercised a strong influence on the Renaissance and 17th-century prose style and literary criticism. BMC V, 168 (IB.19628-30); Goff Q-26.
Median 2 (310 x 215mm). Collation as BMC. 209 (of 212, lacking 2 index leaves and without final blank). 39 lines. Type 1:115R. Initial spaces and spaces left for Greek. Late-18th-century red morocco, gilt roll-tooled border, gilt spine, g.e. Provenance: Greek supplied for the lacunae in a neat contemporary hand; Dukes of Devonshire, Chatsworth Library (bookplate).
THIRD EDITION, preceeded by two Rome editions printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz. In his dedicatory letter, the editor praises Jenson as the inventor of printing, a claim condemned as a clear lie by the Cologne Chronicle in 1499. Quintilian's pedagogical treatise on classical rhetoric, his only extant complete work, covers not only the training of an orator but also general educational theory, ancient literary criticism and the technicalities of rhetoric. Nearly forgotten during the Middle Ages, the Institutiones oratoriae was rediscovered during the Renaissance and exercised a strong influence on the Renaissance and 17th-century prose style and literary criticism. BMC V, 168 (IB.19628-30); Goff Q-26.