Gra[m]matica Nicolai Perotti,

Perotti, Niccolò, 1430-1480, Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460, Jacob, von Pfortzheim, -1519, printer, Liechtenstein, House of, former owner, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1497 · [Basel] Jacobus Wolff de Pforzheim [1497-1500] · 19 pictures

Perotti's Latin grammar, printed in Basel around 1497 by Jacob von Pfortzheim, a school textbook for students learning Latin. The pages are dense black-letter text set in two columns with large decorated initial capitals and red-and-black section headings, with marginal notes, some hand-annotated by a former owner. A designer might take the strong initial letters and the rhythm of tightly justified columns as models for typographic display and page layout.

Basel · Early works to 1500 · Grammar · Incunabula · Latin language · Switzerland

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