Grammatici illustres XII. Musarum charitu[m]q[ue] numerum aequantes hac serie sequuntur: praemisso tamen indice. Diomedis bene repositi lib. tres. Folio. I. Q. Rhemnii Palaemonis ars secunda. Fo. XXXVII. Aspri Iunioris Grammatici ars. Fo. XL. Aelii Donati Grammatici editio prior. Fo. XLI. Eiusdem editio posterior. Fo. XLII. Eiusde[m] de Barbarismo vitiis & tropis. F. XLVI. Seruius Honoratus in secu[n]da[m] editionem. Fo. XLVII. Sergius Grammaticus in eandem. Fo. LI. Phocas de nomine & verbo. Fo. LIIII. Idem de Aspiratione. Fo. LXXXIII. Caper de Orthographia & latinitate. Fo. LIX. Agraetius de Orthographia & proprietate. Fo. LXI. Probi Grammatici institutiones artium. Fo. LXII. Eiusdem Catholica. Fo. LXX. Cornelius Fronto. de vocum differe[n]tiis. Fo. LXXX. Gra[m]maticus alter de punctis & acce[n]tibus. Fo. vltimo.
Joannes Theodericus, Bellovacensis
Category
Books
Date
1516
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3094723
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], LXXXIIII leaves ; fol. Running number: 6962. Provenance: library of the Amsterdam merchant Gosuinus Uilenbroek (1658-1740). Purchased by Sir Richard Ellys at the sale of the Uilenbroek library (Amsterdam, 1729), lot number lot 1255 (number written in pencil at foot of verso of front free endpaper). In Ellys's marked-up copy of the sale catalogue is the price he paid: "13.10" (presumably Dutch gulden and stuivers), along with another number in pencil: "-1-". Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Binding: Dutch, early eighteenth-century gold-tooled dark blue morocco by the Art Book Bindery (active 1705-1741); sewn onto six supports; gold panelled with outer frame of double fillets between wide outer foliate roll and narrow inner toothed roll, inner frame of zig-zag and foliate roll with cornerpieces of drawer-handle and other tools at the corners and a foliate tool in the angles; gilt foliate and floral strapwork centrepiece stamp; gilt zig-zag and foliate roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine to a centre and corner design with foliate tools; brown goatskin title label 'Grammatici Illustres' in second compartment on spine; blue and red mottled bookblock edges; comb and swirl pattern marbled endpapers. Front cover scratched.
Makers and roles
Joannes Theodericus, Bellovacensis, editor Diomedes (Grammarian) (fl. 4th century), author Quintus Rhemnius Fannius Palaemon, author Aemilius Asper , author Aelius Donatus, author Josse Badius (1462-1535), printer