Running title: De politia litteraria, some pages misprinted with "De litteraria politia". Edited by Jacobus Philippus Batezius. "Ad lectorem. Censuram fere omnium & Graecorum & Latinoru[m] authoru[m] habebis hic, studiose lector, acerrimam, quid de unoquo[que] & quocun[que] genere scripti uere sentiendum sit. Eme audacter, & te sumptus, proculdubio, no[n] poenitebit. Exhibemus tibi (q[uod] aiu[n]t) copi[ae] cornu, & literarum uniuersam politiam politissimam, nouam, raram[que] omniu[m] difficillimorum locoru[m] in authoribus exegesin at[que] explicationem. Nequic[quam] est [quo]d desideres. Vale, & fruere." Colophon: Excusum Augustae Vindelicorum in officina Heinrici Steineri, peractum at[que] finitum anno Incarnationis MDXL mense Ianuario, die uero XII. Signatures: pi⁶ A-Z⁶ a-c⁶ d⁸. Title page printed in black and red. Woodcut illustration on title page (group portrait of Guarino Veronese, Maffeo Vegio, Angelo Decembrio, Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, and Giovanni Gualengo), signed H.B. [i.e. Hans Burgkmair?]; historiated initials. Based upon literary discussions, led by Leonello d'Este at the court of Ferrara, and participated in by the scholars of the day. cf. G. Pardi, Leonello d'Este, p. 174-176.
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Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, D 184 Grässe, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux, volume 2, page 346 Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), D 325
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