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Quintilian's Institutiones oratoriae Nicolaus Jenson, 1471 QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius (c.35-95). Institutiones oratoriae. Edited by Omnibonus Leonicenus. [Venice:] Nicolaus Jenson, 21 May 1471. Third edition of Quintilian—illuminated with white vine initials. Rhetoric was central to the activities and debates of the Renaissance Humanists, thus it is no surprise that they rescued Quintilian from his relative obscurity. Quintillian's treatise on classical rhetoric addresses not only the training of an orator but also general educational theory, ancient literary criticism, and the technicalities of the rhetorical arts. It exercised a strong influence on Renaissance prose style and literary criticism, and is notable as one of the three surviving contemporary sources for the ancient ars memorativa. In his dedicatory letter the editor praises Jenson as the inventor of printing, an obvious lie. This edition was preceeded by two Rome editions printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz. HC 13647*; BMC V 168; BSB-Ink Q-13; Bod-inc Q-013; IGI 8260; Essling 130; Goff Q-26; ISTC iq00026000. Super-chancery folio (302 x 198mm). 213 leaves (of 214, without final blank). Dedication leaf bound at beginning. Some empty spaces filled in with Greek in manuscript. Large white vine initial F on first text leaf, 11 smaller white vine illuminated initials, 2 smaller illuminated initials on green, blue, and red particolor grounds with white flourishing, small red and blue ink initials, gilt armorial in bas-de-page of first text page (some areas of dampstaining, light dustsoiling and occasional spots, decoration a little trimmed). 18th-century calf, spine gilt, edges red (small areas of worming, lower corner showing). Provenance: marginalia in Greek and Latin (trimmed) – armorial in bas-de-page of first text page, argent a lion rampant with chief of Anjou, likely that of the Leopardi family, ancestors of the famous poet and philosopher Giacomo.