Raphaelis Regii in depravationes oratoriae Quintiliani institutionis annotationes.

Accession number: 
PML 15418.1
Author: 
Quintilian.
Published: 
Venetiis : Per Bonetum Locatellum, mandato ac sumptibus nobilis viri Octaviani Scoti civis Modoetienses, anno ab incarnatio[n]e Redemptoris nostri Christi Iesu optimi maximiq[ue]. M.CCCCLXCIII. XVI. Kalendas Sextiles [17 July 1493].
Description: 
[206] leaves : diagrams (woodcuts) ; 31.5 x 21.5 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf a1r).
Colophon (leaf [rum]4v): Venetiis per Bonetum Locatellum, mandato ac sumptibus nobilis viri Octaviani Scoti civis Modoetienses, anno ab incarnatio[n]e Redemptoris nostri Christi Iesu optimi maximiq[ue]. M.CCCCLXCIII. XVI. Kalendas Sextiles.
There are two editions with the same colophon, one a page-for-page reprint of the other. In the true 1493 edition, the printer's device on the verso of leaf [rum]5 measures 90 x 57 mm. and the penultimate quire is signed [con]. In the reprint ed. ([after 1500]) the printer's device on [rum]5v measures 83 x 51 mm. and the penultimate quire is signed [us]. Cf. Husung 198 and 199.
Printed in Locatellus's types 5:80R, 6:105R, 80Gk and 105Gk.
Collation: [1]²; a-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁶ [rum]⁶: 206 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [rum]6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Includes the commentary of Raphaello Regius.
White-on-black woodcut initials at beginning of each book; initial spaces, with guide-letters, elsewhere; woodcut diagrams in text.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.3 x 20.7 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [rum]6 (blank).
Two works bound together only in modern era: the marginal hands are different in each work and paper evidence does not suggest that they have been bound together for long.

Binding: 
Modern full red goatskin over heavy paper boards (31.5 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary manuscript notations throughout in several hands, in Latin and Greek.

Provenance: 
Unnamed purchased inscription, 15 Nov. 1492: "die 15 novembris 1492 cui huius librum bononie solides septem [???]" (leaf h7v of Sallust); Antonius Aquarius, signatures (leaves [1]/2r and a2r of Quintillian) and annotations, early-16th century; unidentified inscription, abraded (leaf [1]/2r of Quintillian); unidentified sale catalogue description next to inscription: 20 Guigno 1870 (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased (from Canessa?) in 1907.
Classification: 
Department: