DONATUS, AELIUS TIBERIUS.

P. Virgiliu Maronis vita scripta: ut Hermolaus Barbarus: et Janus Parrhasius: antiquis exemplaris titulus comprobant. Ad studiosos Virgilii latineque lingue Joannis Murmelij Ruremundensis distichon.

      Monasterij (Munster), Laurentius Borneman, (ca. 1508). With woodcut of the Deposition on title. (6) lvs., verso of last leaf blank. Extremely rare school book with the "Life of Virgil" by Tiberius Claudius Donatus, here mixed up with Aelius Donatus, the author of the most popular school book all through the Middle Ages, the "Ars Minor", a latin grammar for children. On title a distich is given in praise of the study of Virgil and the Latin language by Johan Murmelius from Roermond. He was the author of the most popular Latin primer in the Netherlands, the "Pappa puerorum". The book is printed much in the style of an incunable in a small "lettre bâtarde". The present copy has been intensively studied with numerous old ink annotations inbetween the lines in a minute contemporary hand. Good copy, with ample margins.- (Sl. stained with red on first 2 lvs.; sl. frayed at edges; thumbed). Adams D 796; not in STC German, not in NUC.