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ONE OF JUST TWO EARLY MAINZ DONATI RECORDED IN PRIVATE HANDS ¶ PROBABLY THE EARLIEST OFFERED IN ALMOST A CENTURY ¶ POSSIBLY PUBLISHED BEFORE THE GUTENBERG BIBLE --- CCCXX, [8] leaves | 8vo | a-z^8 [us]^8 [con]^8 [rum]^8 A-P^8 | 175 x 113 mm --- A fantastically rare example of the Ars Minor of Aelius Donatus from the earliest years of Mainz printing, being fragments of the ninth leaf of a 33-line edition printed on parchment with the type of the Gutenberg Bible. Sewn as a guard into the middle of the first gathering, between a4 and a5, is a single strip roughly two lines in height; and a second guard sewn in between P4 and P5—the first and last gatherings were commonly so guarded, as they bore the most stress during operation—this one bearing perhaps a little more than a single line of Donatus. Visible between sewing stations at the edges of the spine are eight trapezoidal pieces, representing two discrete halves of the spine's comb lining—one running up the left side, another…
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Quadragesimale Roberti de peccatis [bound using fragments of] Ars Minor
by Robertus Caracciolus and Aelius Donatus
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