Franciscus Niger De modo epistolandi.
Negri, Francesco, 1452-approximately 1523. author.; Hopkinson, Francis, 1810-1898, former owner.; Moody, Robert, active 19th century, former owner.; Goodall, Joseph, 1760-1840, former owner.; Capcasa, Matteo, printer.; Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.; Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
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Title
Franciscus Niger De modo epistolandi.
Uniform title
Modus epistolandi
Created/published
Venetiis : Arte & impensis Mathei Capcasae Parmensis impressum est, anno Dominicae Incarnationis 1492 tertio Nouas [sic] Augusti [3 Aug.] ...
Description
[64] p. ; 21 cm (4to)
Associated name
Negri, Francesco, 1452-approximately 1523. author.
Hopkinson, Francis, 1810-1898, former owner.
Moody, Robert, active 19th century, former owner.
Goodall, Joseph, 1760-1840, former owner.
Capcasa, Matteo, printer.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Hopkinson, Francis, 1810-1898, former owner.
Moody, Robert, active 19th century, former owner.
Goodall, Joseph, 1760-1840, former owner.
Capcasa, Matteo, printer.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Note
Imprint from colophon (leaf D8r), which gives place after date of publication.
Signatures: A-D⁸.
Woodcut capitals.
Architectural woodcut border on leaf A2r, including author portrait in upper element; woodcut initials.
Signatures: A-D⁸.
Woodcut capitals.
Architectural woodcut border on leaf A2r, including author portrait in upper element; woodcut initials.
Cited/described in
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, N-237
Hain-Copinger 11867*
Kelso, R. English gentleman (suppl.), 372
Sander 4978
Hain-Copinger 11867*
Kelso, R. English gentleman (suppl.), 372
Sander 4978
Genre/form
Place of creation/publication
Italy -- Venice.
Call number
INC N211
Folger-specific note
Edges trimmed, slightly affecting woodcut border, pt. of the text, and a few manuscript notes in the 1st gathering. Sketches reproducing some elements of the woodcut border in brown ink on leaf A1v; a few manuscript notes and brackets in the 1st gatherings; folio numbers added in same ink in table of contents on title page verso, and an inscription on same p., blurred, illegible. Pencilled note on front pastedown "R Moody bought at the Provost of Eton's Sale 1840" (no. 1172 in the Sotheby sale catalog of the library of Joseph Goodall, Provost of Eton, June 1840); bookplate of Francis Hopkinson and his note on front pastedown "Given to me by Robert Moody Esqer of Malvern Parva. May 4th 1879".