Oratoriae artis epitoma: uel quae breuibus ad consumatum spectant oratorem: : ex antiquo rhetorum gymnasio, dicendi scribendique breues rationes : nec non et aptus optimo cuique uiro titulus : insuper et perquam facilis memoriae artis modus Iacobi Publicii Florentini lucubratione in lucem editus: foelici numine inchoat.

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Oratoriae artis epitoma: uel quae breuibus ad consumatum spectant oratorem: : ex antiquo rhetorum gymnasio, dicendi scribendique breues rationes : nec non et aptus optimo cuique uiro titulus : insuper et perquam facilis memoriae artis modus Iacobi Publicii Florentini lucubratione in lucem editus: foelici numine inchoat.

Publicio, Giacomo, active 15th century, author.

Oratoriae artis epitoma: uel quae breuibus ad consumatum spectant oratorem: : ex antiquo rhetorum gymnasio, dicendi scribendique breues rationes : nec non et aptus optimo cuique uiro titulus : insuper et perquam facilis memoriae artis modus Iacobi Publicii Florentini lucubratione in lucem editus: foelici numine inchoat.

[Venice] : [Erhard Ratdolt], [31 January 1485]

[132] pages : illustrations (woodcuts), diagrams ; 21 cm (4to)

Title from incipit, leaf A2r (signed 'A')

Imprint as given in Goff and ISTC. Colophon, leaf H10v, reads: Erhardus Ratdolt auguste[n]sis ingenio miro & arte [per]polita impressioni mirifice dedit.1485. pridie calen[das] februarii. Venetiis

33 lines. Numerous large and small woodcut capitals. Woodcut illustrations include alphabet letters, a chessboard, and the tree of rhetoric

Signatures: A-G8 H10 [$4 (+H5) signed; signing A2 as 'A']; 66 leaves, unnumbered (first leaf blank)

"The text appears to have been revised throughout this edition. The ars memoriae is divided into two books instead of three, with considerable changes in the text. To the cuts of the first edition (1482) have been added a cut of a city from the Fasciculus temporum to illustrate the section 'Locorum qualitas' (G5b), a cut of the Ptolemaic system at the end of the first book (G7a), a cut of a female and male figure to illustrate the section beginnning 'Cum prima huius libelli pars' (H1b), where there is a blank space in the earlier edition, and a 'tree' of qualities, &c. in two parts (H9b, H10a). The last figure (a city) of the last block of the alphabet-cuts has been removed."--BMC

As in the 1482 edition, what has been described as a "volvelle" does not have a separate moving part, and is not printed with a blank verso. It appears to require use of a straight-edge or perhaps a string, though the latter would slightly damage the text on the verso

Cited/Indexed in:

Incunabula short title catalogue, ip01097000

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M36435

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-1097

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, 289 (IA.10541)

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, P-537

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library, 1826, 1827, 1828

Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables, P-694

Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 4399

Klebs, A.C. Incunabula scientifica et medica, 816.2

SCDIRB copy (39088007520885) lacking original first blank leaf, A1.

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy library, gift of Bern Dibner.

SCDIRB copy extensively rubricated, with some handcoloring to the woodcut illustrations.

SCDIRB copy has manuscript notes in margins (slightly cropped at edges). Early manuscript note in red ink on back endpaper.

SCDIRB copy in modern vellum binding, title in gilt on spine.

Oratory -- Early works to 1800.

Rhetoric, Ancient -- Early works to 1800.

Letter writing, Latin -- Early works to 1800.

Mnemonics -- Early works to 1800.

Rubrication -- Specimens.

Incunabula -- Specimens.

Incunabula -- Italy -- Venice -- 1485.

Publicio, Giacomo, active 15th century. Ars epistolaris.

Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 1528, printer.

Burndy Library, donor.

Oratoriae artis epitoma: vel quae brevibus ad consvmatvm spectant oratorem

Oratoriae artis epitoma, vel quae brevibus ad consumatum spectant oratorem

Title in Goff and ISTC: Artes orandi, epistolandi, memorandi

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