Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Ars minor [fragment].
Identifier
https://blogs.princeton.edu/notabilia/2017/11/13/princeton-acquires-hidden-gutenbergian-donatus-leaf/
Publisher
[Mainz : Type of the 42-line Bible (second state), ca. 1457-1470].
Language
Latin
Date Created
1457-1470
Extent
2 parts of 1 leaf ; 29 x 10 cm (each), folio.
Provenance
Princeton RBMS fragment discovered and acquired 8/31/2017 from Liber Antiquus.
Bound within Horace, Opera (with commentary by Cristoforo Landino). Venice: Johannes de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, et Socii, 17 May 1483 (Goff H-448, HSVR copy); binding waste, cut into two pieces, folded for use as guards for the first and last quires, respectively, and pasted down onto the front and back boards. Fragments revealed by lifting the old paper pastedowns (conservation treatment by Ted Stanley, October, 2017).
The 1483 Horace bears ownership inscription of Johann Ogier (Freiherr) Faust von Aschaffenburg (1577-1631), of Frankfurt am Main.
The 1483 Horace bears old institutional stamp of the Herzoglicher S. Meiningischer Bibliothek on the blank recto of the first leaf.
References
GW 0871750N
Goff Not in Goff.
Eric White, 'Binding Waste as Book History Patterns of Survival Among the Early Mainz Donatus Editions,' in Printing R-Evolution and Society 1450-1500, edited by Cristina Dondi (Venice, 2019), p. 253-277.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Princeton RBMS fragment is two entire halves of one vellum leaf (f. 11 of 13) of an otherwise unknown 33-line edition, printed with Gutenberg's 42-Line Bible types; probably printed by Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer between 1457 and 1466, or somewhat later by Schoeffer alone.
Two-line initial A printed in blue (this initial introduced in the Mainz Psalter of 1457); rubricated in red.
Schwenke (Donatus text) 32:42-34:29.

Discovery Information

Subject
Latin language—Grammar—Early works to 1500
Type and type-founding—Specimens
Incunabula—Specimens

Physical Characteristics

File Count
6

Institutional Information

Collection
In Principio: Europe's First Printers, 1450-1470
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/afc1576f-e4a4-4ca8-a5a9-f64f287ab6bd/manifest