Edited by Ognibene Bonisoli; with prefatory letters by Bonisoli and Johannes Antonius Campanus.

Imprint from colophon (leaf K8v).

Initial spaces, some with guide-letters.

Printed on sheets of "super-chancery"-size paper.

Signatures: a⁸ b⁶ c-e⁸ f-h⁶ i⁸ II¹⁰ k⁶ l⁸ m⁶ n-q⁸ r⁶ s⁸ t-u⁶ x-z⁸ &⁶ A⁸ B-I⁶ K¹⁰ (K10 blank).

Text surrounded by 58 lines of commentary, set in roman types measuring 112 mm and 82 mm respectively.

Variant settings are known: in some copies, quire a, with title-page reading "Quintilianus", either part or all of quire b, and quires r and E have been reset using text and commentary types measuring 104 mm and 85 mm respectively; in other copies, quire k has been reset in types measuring 112 and 81 mm. Cf. BMC 15th cent. and Walsh.

Woodcut printer's device on K9r; diagrams in text.

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BM 15th cent., V, 393 (IB.22295).

BM 15th cent., XII, 28.

Goff, Q-30.

Hain-Copinger-Reichling, 13654.

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), iq00030000.

Proctor, 4865.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2159-2162.

Purchased for the Boston Medical Library through the William Norton Bullard Fund Int. Antiq. 1933 Sept. 7 28549.

Bequest; William King Richardson; 1951; 50R-55.

From the William Norton Bullard Collection; MS ownership note on t.p., "Johannes Ephraim Scheibel, Vratislauiae A. MDCCLXXX."

Contemporary MS ownership inscription on title page, "Pro Bernardo Buxfordio Bremensi", and later inscription, "Nunc Adolpho Closs." From the library of William King Richardson, with his note of acquisition "McLeish, Nov. 1935."

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication.

In this copy, quire k is in a variant setting, with the commentary set in type measuring 81 mm.

Large initial on a3r added in red, blue, and green, with marginal extension; initials elsewhere added in red and/or blue, paragraph marks and underlinings in red.

A blind impression of a printing type appears at the foot of leaf k6.

Imperfect: blank leaf at end wanting.

Bound in 19th-century purple morocco, with the arms of Joachim Gómez de la Cortina, marqués de Morante, stamped in gilt on covers.