- Ars minor
- Author:
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- Donatus, Aelius
- Publisher:
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- [Mainz : Peter Schoeffer, after 1466].
- Format:
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- Book
- Date:
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- 1455-1499
- Extent:
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- 1 vellum leaf 28.3 x about 20 cm
- Language:
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- Latin
- Abstract:
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- Many of the Donatus editions printed with the Gutenberg Bible type contain either red-printed or, as here, red and blue-printed initials. The initials are those originally used in printing the Fust and Schoeffer Mainz Psalters of 1457 and 1459. The 5-line initial of the present fragment consists of two parts: the lombard initial proper, printed in red; and a background plate printed in blue, decorated with raised ornament in the manner of manuscript pen-flourishing. The three colors of the page, black, red, and blue, were printed at a single pull of the press. After each impression, the initial was apparently removed from the type page, and each of its two parts was carefully re-inked, and then reinserted: a slow process. Although the present fragment has a gap of about 3 cm between the two halves of the leaf, it is clear that when new, this edition, although of a utilitarian schoolbook, would have been an elegant and imposing work.
- Description:
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- Two vertical strips of f. 3 (Schwenke 15, 24-16, 46) of a 35-line edition; small Psalter initial printed in red and blue.
- Former owner:
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- Jacques Rosenthal (Firm)
- Bookseller:
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- A. Rosenthal Ltd
- Call number:
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- 113.9
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- Subject:
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- Latin language—Grammar—Early works to 1500
- Type and type-founding—Specimens
- Collections:
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- Incunabula at Princeton
- Early Manuscript & Printed Fragments
- In Principio
- Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
- F & S grouping
- The Scheide Library
- Treasures of Rare Book Division
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