Mar 11, 2004 - Sale 2000

Sale 2000 - Lot 84

Price Realized: $ 2,185
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
DATUS, AUGUSTINUS. Elegantiolae. 25 (of 26) leaves, including final blank; lacks a6. Gothic type. 4to, 212x155 mm, 19th-century 1/4 vellum; a1, a2, c3, and c4 remargined. With contemporary manuscript additions in Latin in various hands at beginning and end, including the text of a poem by the Basel protestant reformer Johannes Oecolampadius (1482-1531) on the title page. [Speier: Conrad Hist, 14]99
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Concise guide to Latin style first published in 1471 and reprinted in over 100 editions by 1500, most surviving in only small numbers. GW 8133; BMC III, 509; Goff D93b (locating only the Yale copy); ISTC id00093750 (7 copies in Europe in addition to the Yale copy).