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Catalogue of Antiquarian Books (before 1700)

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In our Catalogue this is Booknumber V67823

Author Perotti, Niccolo (1429-1480)
Title CORNUCOPIAE sive Linguae Latinae Commentarii
PlacePub Basel (Switzerland)
Publisher Andream Cartandrum (ie Cratander)
Date 1521
Illustrations With Cratander's large colophon printer's mark at end & full page border of putti at play on the second titlepage.
Description Folio near-contemporary calf spine gilt on 5 raised bands (some minor repairs to spine and lower compartment split at lower hinge/2 leather holes repaired) LACKS leaves 1-8 (available in facsimile) including titlepage, preliminaries, & index up to "aricia" on leaf 9. Folios 9-79 + 1436 columns (ie 718pp 2 columns per page). Second titlepage at folio N1 precedes Sextus Pompeius Festus de Verborum Veterum Significatione, and Nonius Marcellius Compendiosa Doctrina ad Filium de Proprietate Sermonum. Some leaves with marginal damp mark never touching text & a few minor tears or paper faults & about 20 early paper repairs with a few obscuring text but mostly just marginal. One column has a few drops of candle wax. As expected from Cratander, the margins are wide and the nice italic type well centered but 2 pages are slightly over inked and thus have ink smudges. *An early edition of this humanist reference work printed in italic columns by the famous humanist printer Cratander when Basel was in the fore-front of such printing. These lexicographical studies on the first book of Martial’s Epigrams followed by similar works by other authors were a virtual encyclopedia of Latin words. It was completed by Perotti in 1478 and first printed after his death in 1489. One commentator calls it "a massive encyclopedia of the classical world. Every verse, indeed every word of Martial's text was a hook on which Perotti hung a densely woven tissue of linguistic, historical and cultural knowledge" (Brian W. Ogilvie, The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe, University of Chicago Press 2006, p118) (Wikipedia entry on Niccolo Perotti).
Booknumber V67823
Price Price: GBP 450.00 or USD 554.00
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