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Donatus, Aelius, [Ars minor], [between 1465 and 1480]

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Creator:: Donatus, Aelius
Title(s):: [Ars minor].
Published/Created:: [Netherlands] : [Prototypography], [between 1465 and 1480]
Physical Description:: [28] pages ; 21 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0000
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/17098821
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Title and imprint from the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue.
An example of Dutch prototypography, one of several dozen schoolbooks, religious, and humanistic works printed circa 1470, in closely related types, but without indication of place, printer, or date. These were previously attributed to Laurens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and erroneously thought to predate works printed by Johannes Gutenberg.
Extent from Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke.
Saliceto or Doctrinal type, 27-line edition.
Incunabula short title catalogue, id00321000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, D321
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 8746
Kronenberg, M.E. Campbell's Annales de la typographie néerlandaise au XV. siècle, 633 (15)
Incunabula printed in the Low Countries, 762
Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge, 3299
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0000: Imperfect: fragment of a single leaf, on vellum. Formerly used in the binding of a 1474 account book at Haarlem Cathedral (see Werther manuscript notes). This leaf was cut by the binder into several narrow strips, now reassembled, with loss of text along one side. With two initials supplied in red. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:: Incunabula in Yale Library.
Latin language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1500.
Werther, Frederick -- 1881- -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:: Incunabula.
Fragments (object portions)
Printed waste.
Contributors:: Printer of the Speculum, printer.
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