PEROTTUS, Nicolaus (1429-80). Cornucopiae, sive linguae latinae commentarii. -Libellus, quo Plinii epistola, ad Titum Vespasianum corrigitur . - Cornelio VITELLI (lecturer in Greek at New College, Oxford c. 1470-75 and 1491). In eum ip sum libellum Sypontini Annotationes . Edited by Aldus Manutius Venice: Aldus Manutius July 1499. Super-chancery 2° (306 x 205mm). Collation: [1-5 6] a-z A-H 1 0 I 1 2 (1/1r title, 1/1v editor's preface to the reader, 1/2r index by Aldus, 5/4r errata, 5/5r Lodovico Odasio's letter to Guido da Montefeltro, 5/5v Pyrrhus Perottus's letter to Federico da Montefeltro, 5/6v life of Martial; a1r Cornucopiae , I5v Perottus's commentary on Pliny's letter to the emperor Vespasian, addressed to Francesco Guarnerio, I10r Vitelli's notes on Perottus's commentary, addressed to Partenio Benacense, I11v register, colophon, privilege, I12 blank). 352 leaves, 2-30 so numbered at the foot, 31-351 numbered 1-642. 59 numbered lines, index in 5 columns. Roman types 115, title and preface; 10:82, text (first use); and Greek type 3:84 (first use). 3- to 9-line initial spaces with guide-letters. (Affected by damp, particularly in the early quires, first two leaves repaired at margins, many index leaves frayed, final quire with scattered wormholes worsening at end.) 18th-century vellum with yapp edges, manuscript title on spine (spine frayed at foot). Provenance : some early marginalia. THE FIRST USE OF ALDUS'S THIRD AND MOST INFLUENTIAL GREEK TYPE (3:84) occurs in the Perottus and the Dioscorides of the same month. Engraved by Francesco Griffo and inspired by the hand of Marcus Musurus, it was 'of very flowing character, with a large number of ligatures, but fewer contractions than the larger founts ... considering its small size, very legible, owing to the fineness and uniformity of the lines' (Procter). The Archbishop of Sipontum's magnum opus on the Latin language, written in the form of a commentary on Martial's epigrams, was first published at Venice by Paganino de Paganini in 1489 with revisions by his nephew, Pyrrhus Perottus, and Ludovicus Odaxius. In this tenth edition Aldus explains in the preface that the text has been carefully numbered by page and by line, so that the index can be precisely keyed. This marked the inception of a modern scholarly system of reference (see F. Geldner, Inkunabelkunde p. 69). H *12706; BMC V, 561; IGI 7428; Renouard 19:2; Dionisotti & Orlandi XVIII; Murphy 25; Sansoviniana 28; Laurenziana 32; Goff P-296.
PEROTTUS, Nicolaus (1429-80). Cornucopiae, sive linguae latinae commentarii. -Libellus, quo Plinii epistola, ad Titum Vespasianum corrigitur . - Cornelio VITELLI (lecturer in Greek at New College, Oxford c. 1470-75 and 1491). In eum ip sum libellum Sypontini Annotationes . Edited by Aldus Manutius Venice: Aldus Manutius July 1499. Super-chancery 2° (306 x 205mm). Collation: [1-5 6] a-z A-H 1 0 I 1 2 (1/1r title, 1/1v editor's preface to the reader, 1/2r index by Aldus, 5/4r errata, 5/5r Lodovico Odasio's letter to Guido da Montefeltro, 5/5v Pyrrhus Perottus's letter to Federico da Montefeltro, 5/6v life of Martial; a1r Cornucopiae , I5v Perottus's commentary on Pliny's letter to the emperor Vespasian, addressed to Francesco Guarnerio, I10r Vitelli's notes on Perottus's commentary, addressed to Partenio Benacense, I11v register, colophon, privilege, I12 blank). 352 leaves, 2-30 so numbered at the foot, 31-351 numbered 1-642. 59 numbered lines, index in 5 columns. Roman types 115, title and preface; 10:82, text (first use); and Greek type 3:84 (first use). 3- to 9-line initial spaces with guide-letters. (Affected by damp, particularly in the early quires, first two leaves repaired at margins, many index leaves frayed, final quire with scattered wormholes worsening at end.) 18th-century vellum with yapp edges, manuscript title on spine (spine frayed at foot). Provenance : some early marginalia. THE FIRST USE OF ALDUS'S THIRD AND MOST INFLUENTIAL GREEK TYPE (3:84) occurs in the Perottus and the Dioscorides of the same month. Engraved by Francesco Griffo and inspired by the hand of Marcus Musurus, it was 'of very flowing character, with a large number of ligatures, but fewer contractions than the larger founts ... considering its small size, very legible, owing to the fineness and uniformity of the lines' (Procter). The Archbishop of Sipontum's magnum opus on the Latin language, written in the form of a commentary on Martial's epigrams, was first published at Venice by Paganino de Paganini in 1489 with revisions by his nephew, Pyrrhus Perottus, and Ludovicus Odaxius. In this tenth edition Aldus explains in the preface that the text has been carefully numbered by page and by line, so that the index can be precisely keyed. This marked the inception of a modern scholarly system of reference (see F. Geldner, Inkunabelkunde p. 69). H *12706; BMC V, 561; IGI 7428; Renouard 19:2; Dionisotti & Orlandi XVIII; Murphy 25; Sansoviniana 28; Laurenziana 32; Goff P-296.
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