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44 - NONIUS MARCELLUS. [De proprietate latini sermonis]. Compendi…
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NONIUS MARCELLUS. [De proprietate latini sermonis]. Compendiosa doctrina ad filium de proprietate sermonum. Venice, Nicolas Jenson, 1476. In-folio of [193] (of 194) ff. (sign. a-c10 d-y8 z12); red morocco, double fillet gilt, double border of single fillet with fleurons at the corners, spine decorated with the same repeated fleuron, inner fillet gilt, spotted edges (Wood, London). Third edition of this important Latin lexicon, printed in Roman type by the French printer Nicolas Jenson, who trained in Mainz in the workshop of Fust and Schœffer and settled in Venice. The text was prepared by the humanist Giulio Pomponio Leto. The treatise De proprietate latini sermonis, the work of the Latin grammarian Nonius Marcellus (early 4th century), is a lexicon in twenty sections, the first twelve of which deal with language and grammar and the other eight with special subjects (navigation, costume, food, weapons), presented in alphabetical order. It is particularly important in that it preserves fragments of ancient dramatists, annalists, satirists and writers, which would otherwise be lost. Fifteenth-century editions do not include the third section, which was not published until 1511. This sumptuous incunabulum by Nicolas Jenson is extremely rare on the market. A large and well preserved copy. It has not been rubricated and the prefatory letters have been left blank, with the exception of the first three pages of the table, which open with a painted initial. From the libraries of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), sixth son of King George III, with bookplate (not included in the Bibliotheca Sussexiana sales of 1844-1845); Richard G. S. King (1946, no. 80); and William Foyle (2000, no. 241), with bookplate. The blank f. a1 is missing, as is often the case, but the blank f. c1 is present. Outer margin of 3 ff. (a2-a4) redone without damaging the print, first and last leaves soiled and pitted, marginal dampstaining, marginal worm stain in quire c. ISTC in00265000 - HC 11901 - Goff N265 - CIBN N-154 - Pr 4098 - BMC V 177 - GW M27232.
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