Quintilianus, Orationum institutionum lib. XII, Paris, 1516, later half green calf

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

Orationum institutionum lib. XII. Una cum annotationibus Raphaelis Regii, Georgii Merulae et Iodoci Badii Ascensii in depravationes earundem... (Paris): Jodocus Badius Ascensius and Jean Petit, (15 January 1516)

folio (267 x 193mm.), title with woodcut device of Ascensius and within woodcut border, title printed in red and black, white-on-black woodcut criblé initials, some early annotations, nineteenth-century half green calf, some wormholes, some staining, a few leaves browned, cut close at head, binding slightly rubbed

The first of five editions produced by Badius, with notes by Merula and revised by Badius himself, using a manuscript owned and annotated by Lorenzo Valla.

LITERATURE:

USTC 144620; Renouard, Badius Ascensius III, 197/1

PROVENANCE:

Prete Giuseppe Nicolai da Controne, inscription on title-page