Exercitiu[m] puerorum grammaticale per dietas distributum.

Accession number:

PML 64976

Published:

Impressus Colonie : per ... Henricum Quentell, .M.cccc.xcix. sexto Martij [6 March 1499].

Description:

[114] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 21.5 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Gift of Elisabeth Ball, 1974.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf v4r: Finit tractatus secundus exercitij puero[rum] gra[m]maticalis... Impressus Colonie p[er] honestu[m] viru[m] Henricu[m] Quentell emendatissime Anno salutis .M.cccc.xcix. sexto martij.
Partly printed in Quentell's types 6:63G, 7:80G, 9:280G, and 10:155G (title page and signatures l-v) and partly in the types of the Retro Minores 1:150G, 3:80G, and 4:63G (signatures a-k but not title page).
Signatures: a-f⁸/⁴ g-k⁶/⁴ l-s⁶ t⁴ v⁶: 114 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut on title page.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.2 x 13.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (half-title page).

Binding:

Late 19th/20th-century full calf, blind- and gilt-tooled in a pastiche of an early style, over heavy paper boards (21.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Mottled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; red edges.

Variant Title:

Exercitium grammaticale puerorum

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes (in first few quires only), and roman numeral foliation. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations and readers' marks sporadically throughout.

Provenance:

J. Eliot Hodgkin (1829-1912), bookplate dated 1881 (front pastedown) and "Adnotatio" page at end; Elisabeth Ball (1897-1982), donated to: Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Elisabeth Ball, 1974.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Retrospective bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books