_Fol. 1^a_: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS ELega_n_tia_rum_ co_m_pendiosæ
collectio_n_is in ordinem alphabeti directæ principium. _Fol. 9^a,
blank._ _Fol. 9^b_: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS VIRI CLARISSIMI ET DE LINGVA
LATINA BENE MERENTIS AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM: CVI OPUS
ELEGANTIARVM LINGVAE LATINAE DEDICAT EPISTOLA. _Fol. 11^a_: LAVRENTII
VALLENSIS PATRICII ROMANI COMMENTARIORVM GRAMMATICORVM SECVNDVM
ELEGANTIAM LINGVAE LATINAE LIBER PRIMVS DE NOMINE VERBOQVE. ET EX HIS
DVOBVS COMPOSITO PARTICIPIO INCTPIT PROOEMIVM. _Fol. 159^b_: LAVRENTII
VALLENSIS DE LANGVAE LATINAE ELEGANTIA TERTIVS LIBER FINIT: INCIPIT
IIII. DE NOMINVM SIGNIFICATIONIBVS. [_For_ TERTIVS _read_ QVINTUS;
_for_ IIII. DE NOMINVM SIGNIFICATIONIBVS _read_ VI. DE NOTIS
SCRIPTORVM.] _Fol. 190^a_: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS DE LINGVAE LATINAE
ELEGANTIA: ET DE EGO MEI TVI ET SVI AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM LIBER
INCIPIT. _Fol. 200^b_, COLOPHON: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS DE LINGVAE LATINAE
ELEGANTIA: ET DE EGO MEI TVI ET SVI AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM PER
ME M. NICOLAVM IENSON VENETIIS OPVS FELICITER IMPRESSVM EST. M.CCCCLXXI.
_Fol. 201, 202, blank._
Quarto. Quires [1^8, 2^{12}, 3-4^{10}, 5^{12}, 6-7^{10}, 8^{12},
9^{14}, 10-11^{10}, 12^{12}, 13^8, 14^6, 15-19^{10}, 20^8], 202
leaves, the last two blank, roman letter, 39 lines to the page,
without signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to six-line
spaces left for capitals and spaces also for Greek words, to be
supplied in manuscript. Two pinholes on side. The type is Jenson's
first font. Hain 15802. Proctor 4071.
At the head of the first page is a large initial of the interlaced vine
pattern in gold and colors, with a border of the same pattern enclosing
the entire page. The remaining five books, the prefatory epistle and the
supplement _De ego, mei et sui_ are introduced by initials of the same
size and style. Alternate red and blue capitals at the head of chapters,
paragraph-marks also in red and blue.
A few of the spaces left for Greek words are filled in manuscript, but
more are left vacant. When Jenson later in the same year printed
Cicero's Letters, he was provided with Greek type. The blank fol. 9^a is
occupied by a transcript in an early hand of the greater part of lib. i,
cap. iv (_De ficu_), from a MS. the readings of which differ materially
from the printed text.
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