Laurentij Vallae Elegantiarum libri sex, deq[ue] reciprocatione libellus cu[m] Antonij Ma[n]cinelli lima suis locis apposita : etcu[m] Iodoci Badij Ascensij epitomatis singulis capitibus antepositis : adnotationes eiusde[m] in Antoniu[m] Raudensem : item, Apologus seu actus scenicus in Poggium Florentinum.

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Author / Creator:Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457, author.
Uniform title:Elegantiae
Imprint:Selestadij : Apud Lazarum Schurerium, anno MDXX [1520]
Description:[14], ccxx, [1], xxxv leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Language:Latin
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Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's copy added to the collection in honor of Hanna Holborn Gray for her talk "The Groves of Academe, Revisited." May 9, 2018.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11538486
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Varying Form of Title:Laurentii Vallae Elegantiarvm libri sex, deque reciprocatione libellus cum Antonij Mancinelli lima suis locis apposita
Other authors / contributors:Badius, Josse, 1462-1535.
Mancinelli, Antonio, 1452-approximately 1505.
Schürer, Lazarus, active 1519-1521, printer.
Provenance:Former owners' manuscript annotations in at least 4 hands; underscoring; manicules; annotations partially trimmed on head- and fore-edges.
Binding: 18th century mottled leather over boards; rebacked with gilt stamped leather spine label.
Notes:Colophon: Selestadij denuo vigilantiori cura. Ex aedibus Lazari Schuerij mense Februario anno Christi M.D.XX.
Signatures: 2A⁸ 2B⁶ a⁸ b-c⁴ d-g⁸·⁴ h-i⁸ k⁴ l⁸ m⁴ n-o⁸ p⁴ q-r⁸ s⁴ t-z⁸ A⁴ B-D⁸ E⁴ F-H⁸ I⁴ K-L⁸ M⁴ N-P⁸.
Numerous errors in foliation.
Title within decorative woodcut border.
Includes index.
"In Antoniu[m] Raudensem Laurentij Vallensis opusculum aureum, quo & errores castigant[ur] & literae bon[a]e docent[ur]. Ad Ioanne[m] Lucinam Alfonsi regis secretarium"--Pages [1] verso-xxxv recto, third and fourth sequences.
Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), entry V 233
Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, entry V166
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 11971

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