"... correcto[rum] impresso[rum][que] engolisme die .xvii. mensis maii. Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxxxi."--Colophon., Description based on GW 2777., and Imperfect: Beinecke Library has fragments of 24 leaves from quires b, c, e and g. These fragments were removed from the original binding of the ms. Harangues et oraisons des anciens (Paris, ca. 1530), from the collection of Anne de Polignac, comtesse de Rochefoucauld (wife of François II), which later came into the possession of the duc de Rohan, and then was purchased at the Labitte sale by Comte Ernest Armand.
Complete, with signature marks a-x in the centre lower margin of the rectos of the first half of each gathering, 40 lines written in brown ink in a semi-cursive bookhand between 2 verticals and 41 horizontals ruled in pink, justification: 244 x 135mm, one-line initials of liquid gold on grounds of red or blue, line-endings of similar colours, each 'Harangue' opening with a four- or five-line illuminated initial of gold and colours of varying forms, including architectural, foliate or zoomorphic staves, Full-page frontispiece miniature in architectural frame. 16th-century green velvet, brass pins and enamelled brass clasps with the arms of Franois II, duc de La Rochefoucauld and his wife Anne of Polignac, boards replaced by the Bibliothque nationale in Paris in 1879.
From the library of Anne De Polignac. Original binding. and Manuscript of Harangues et oraisons des anciens. With fragments of 15th-century printed books from Angoulieve and related notes and letters.
"Expliciunt questiuncule gra[m]maticales super donatum minorem engolisme impresse bene vise [et] correcte. Anno salutis christiane .M.CCCC.xCii.xvi. die mensis aprilis"--Colophon., Description based on bibliographies., and Imperfect: Beinecke Library has fragments of 16 leaves from first two quires. These fragments were removed from the original binding of the ms. Harangues et oraisons des anciens (Paris, ca. 1530), from the collection of Anne de Polignac, comtesse de Rochefoucauld (wife of François II), which later came into the possession of the duc de Rohan, and then was purchased at the Labitte sale by Comte Ernest Armand.
Publisher:
Petrus Alanus and Andreas Calvinus,
Subject (Name):
Donatus, Aelius.--Ars minor
Subject (Topic):
Incunabula in Yale Library and Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500