Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius: Institutiones oratoriae.
Commentary by Laurentius Valla, Pomponius Laetus, and Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus.
Venice: Peregrinus de Pasqualibus, Bononiensis, 18 Aug. 1494.
Fol. a8 b6 c-e8 f-h6 i8 II10 k6 l8 m6 n-q8 r6 s8 t-u6 x-z8 &6 A8 B-I6 K10. [248] leaves, the last blank. Woodcut diagrams; woodcut printer's device.
ISTC iq00030000; Goff Q30; BMC V 393, XII 28; Bod-inc Q-017.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bk7-e.11 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | i1r, line 4: “... quæſitum || eſt ...”; B1r, line 1: “dianæ locutioni ...”; B2r, line 1: “legãs & egẽs ...” (cf. the two variant copies described at Bod-inc Q-017). |
| Provenance: | Alexander Rowatt (possibly Alexander Rowatt, M.A. Glasgow, 1587, Church of Scotland minister, d. 1644 – see H. Scott, 'Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae ... New ed.', vol. 3 (1920) p. 373): signature on a1r “Alexri Rowatt”. John Barry (fl. 1778), bookseller, Glasgow: pasted onto new front pastedown a slip of paper (preserved from former front pastedown or flyleaf) with the annotation “Bibliothecae Universitatis Glasguensis Hunc Librum Donavit Ioannes Barry Bibliopola Dec.ris 15. 1778.” University of Glasgow: shelfmark “CR.1.4” on University Library bookplate on front pastedown matching entry in A. Arthur, 'Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis', (Glasguae: 1791). |
| Binding: | Germany(?), 16th-century blind-tooled calf (heavily worn and damaged) over wooden boards; each cover has a central panel formed by fillets, within which a repeated vine-like tool with tendrils (Rautengerank) forms characteristic pointed oval shapes, each filled with a separate fringed foliage tool (the latter also stamped outside the frame of the panel); no surviving evidence of clasps; boards repaired and recovered with brown goatskin, remains of original calf covers feathered on; note by binder (Fiona Anderson, June 1981) mounted on rear pastedown. Size: 323 x 216 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 313 x 195 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand, together with some underlining. |
| Decoration: | Principal initials supplied in red and blue with reserved white; other initials and paragraph marks supplied in red or blue throughout. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the final blank leaf; lower half of a2 missing (leaf repaired). |
