QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius.
Institutiones oratoriae, ac Declamationes, cuiuscuius sint, summa accuratione nuper recognitae, cum Institutionum indice amplissimo.
[Paris,] Badius Ascensius for Ascensius and Roigny, August [– September] 1533.
[issued with:]
MOSELLANUS, Petrus. In M. Fab. Quintiliani rhetoricas institutiones, annotationes. [Paris,] Badius Ascensius [for Ascensius and Roigny], May 1533.
Two parts in one vol., folio, ff. Quintilian: [8], CXXII, XLVIII, Mosellanus: XXXII; titles with large woodcut Badius device within woodcut architectural woodcut borders with portrait medallions, putti, and grotesques, numerous woodcut criblé initials throughout; dampstaining to the Mosellanus, a few other occasional stains or smudges; a good copy in contemporary blind-stamped calf, boards panelled with rolls of palmettes surrounding a central pair of blind-tooled fleurs-de-lys, later (eighteenth-century?) gilt morocco lettering-piece to spine, edges stained red, sewn on 6 split tawed thongs; somewhat shaken and worn, spine defective in places, dampstain to lower board; some contemporary annotations to the text, near-contemporary ownership inscription to upper pastedown (‘Le Blond’); printed booklabel of the Cistercian monastery of the Strict Observance of Notre-Dame du Val-Richer to title and large armorial bookplate of Nicholas de la Place, abbot of the monastery to front free endpaper.
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Institutiones oratoriae, ac Declamationes, cuiuscuius sint, summa accuratione nuper recognitae, cum Institutionum indice amplissimo.
Rare reprint of Badius’s successful 1528 Quintilian, with the commentary of Peter Schade, German humanist author of an important work on rhetoric.
Our copy bears some discreet underlining and a few marginalia in a fine, minute and expert contemporary French hand, revealing the mind of a scholar eager to read Quintilian in juxtaposition with other classical authors (Cicero, Macrobius), and with a special interest in the author’s five-fold analysis of effective public speaking, as laid out in Book III.
French Vernacular Books 84110; Moreau IV, 804; Renouard, Badius Ascensius III, pp. 202–204. OCLC finds only a single copy outside Continental Europe, at Yale.
