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About this Item

Title

  • Orthographia

Names

  • Tortelli, Giovanni, approximately 1400-1466
  • Jenson, Nicolas, approximately 1420-1480, printer
  • Niédrée, Jean-Edouard, 1803-1854, binder
  • Seillière, Achille, Baron, 1813-1873, former owner
  • Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Venice, Nicolaus Jenson, 1471.

Headings

  • -  Latin language--Foreign words and phrases--Greek--Early works to 1800
  • -  Latin language--Orthography and spelling--Early works to 1800
  • -  Italy--Venice

Genre

  • Incunabula--Italy--Venice--1471

Notes

  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 216
  • -  Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, T-395
  • -  Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 15568
  • -  Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 15564
  • -  Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, p. 170 (variant IC.19648)
  • -  LC copy: initials in preliminary treatise and paragraph marks throughout supplied in red and blue alternately; large ornamental initial and trilateral border with miniature in gold and colors on leaf [2a]; initials in gold and colors at beginning of each letter of the alphabet.
  • -  LC copy: bound by Niédrée, with superexlibris of Baron A. de Seillière on covers; bookplate of George Dunn of Woolley Hall near Maidenhead.

Medium

  • [298] leaves (the first and last (wanting) blank) 40 cm. (fol.)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Incun. 1471 .T6

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 48031694

Online Format

  • online text
  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Tortelli, Giovanni, Approximately, Nicolas Jenson, Jean-Edouard Niédrée, Achille Seillière, George Dunn, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Orthographia. Venice, Nicolaus Jenson, 1471. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/48031694/.

APA citation style:

Tortelli, G., Jenson, N., Niédrée, J., Seillière, A., Dunn, G. & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1471) Orthographia. Venice, Nicolaus Jenson. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/48031694/.

MLA citation style:

Tortelli, Giovanni, Approximately, et al. Orthographia. Venice, Nicolaus Jenson, 1471. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/48031694/>.