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Phil Barber
Boston, Mass.
May '01
$5.50

Mancinellus, Antonius (1452-Velletri - 1506 Rome ca.)
Opera.

[crossed out] Lyons: JEan de Vingle, July 1, 1500 4^0
Ref: Hain 10577, Brunet 1353. Baudrier XII p. 208. Panzer IV, 352 D. Reichline V, 183.
Copy: Florence, National, Ed. Magl. A. 5. 12
Basel UB
Thesaurus varie constructionis (A-V)

Baudrier Gothic a 2 col. de 316 ff. n. chiff., sign. a-z8,
A-P8 Q-R6 40 lines a la page, manchettes. (side notes)
- Nat. U. Cat. 3221. - Microfilm, Univ. CA, Berkeley; Univ. of
Brit. Columbis, Vancouver.

Jean de Vingle - born at Abbeville en Picardie.
Imprimeur et libraire a Lyon .... 1492, t apres le
5 Oct. 1513.

Mancinellus fame rests on his editing the Ars minor
of Donatus Aelius, Roman grammarian of the 4th C,
tutor fo St. Jerome. This Ars grammatica became
as popular as a school book that in the Middle Ages
its authors name (Donatus) was used for any
rudimentary grammer
Donatus Melior - term coined by Mancinellus for
his ed. of the 'Rudimenta grammatices' Ars minor, made for his sons.
- See Goff D-348 - 350.
A. Mancinellius - Italian philologist, humanist.
-J de Vingle - although the 1st books to bear De Vingle's
name is the French Belial July 19, 1494 he is generally
assumed to have been at work as ealry as 26 Nov. 1492.
His press was continuously active from the ealry
parts of 1494 until well into the 16th C