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QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius (c.35-95). Institutiones oratoriae. Edited by Omnibonus Leonicenus. [Venice: Printer of the 1480 Valla, about 1480].
Chancery 2° (274 x 191mm). Collation: \Kp\k2 a-b8 c-s6.8 t-z8 &8 A6 B8 C6 D4 (\Kp\k1r blank, \Kp\k1v-2v table, a1r blank, a1v editor's dedicatory letter, a2r text, D3v explicit, D4 blank). 201 leaves (of 202, lacking P6). 39 lines, table in two columns. Type: 1:112R, 112 Greek. 2- to 7-line initial spaces. (Preliminaries soiled, some leaves in quires a and D strengthened at inner margin, f5 cropped at foremargin, some waterstaining of upper margins and gutter, severe in quires y-z and D, quires t-u wormed in gutter, m4v-5r slightly soiled.) 18th-century vellum, covers with small gilt crest of a rose and two crossed arrows, 19th-century parchment spine label with wording in pencil, yapp edges. Provenance: marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand -- Laurentius Biotti; Antonius Battaggia (later ownership inscriptions on recto and verso of front blank; some annotations in Biotti's hand).
Fifth edition, a reprint of Jenson's edition of 1471. Quintilian wrote the Institutiones oratoriae in the last years of his life after making his reputation as a teacher of rhetoric in Rome. Although the influence of his treatise declined in the Middle Ages, it regained its reputation in the Renaissance, both as a general study of education and on account of its incidental sayings. Proctor catalogued this edition under J. Rubeus, Treviso, but the Greek type is identified in BMC as that used at Venice in the 1480 Valla. HCR 13644; BMC VII, 1137 & XII, 21 (IB.21288a-b, 21289); IGI 8262; Goff Q-28.
Chancery 2° (274 x 191mm). Collation: \Kp\k
Fifth edition, a reprint of Jenson's edition of 1471. Quintilian wrote the Institutiones oratoriae in the last years of his life after making his reputation as a teacher of rhetoric in Rome. Although the influence of his treatise declined in the Middle Ages, it regained its reputation in the Renaissance, both as a general study of education and on account of its incidental sayings. Proctor catalogued this edition under J. Rubeus, Treviso, but the Greek type is identified in BMC as that used at Venice in the 1480 Valla. HCR 13644; BMC VII, 1137 & XII, 21 (IB.21288a-b, 21289); IGI 8262; Goff Q-28.
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