QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius. - Epitome Fabii Quintiliani nuper summo & ingenio & diligentia collecta, ... authore Iona Philologo (i.e. Johann Winter).

1547 With woodcut printer's mark on title (repeated in second work). Printed in Italics. 111 pp., 7 unn. leaves (last blank). Small 8vo. Old limp vellum with ties (some spots, warped). From the collection of Hendrik D. L. Vervliet. Paris, Robert Estienne, 1547. (Bound with:) HEGENDORFF, Christoph. Methodus conscribendi epistolas, per Christoph. Hegendorphinum. Eiusdem Dragmata locorum tum Rhetoricorum, tum Dialecticorum .. 44 pp., 1 leaf. Paris, Robert Estienne, 1547. Ad I: Excerpts from the "Institutio oratoria" of Quintilian (1st. cent. A.D.), the first officially appointed teacher of rhetorics in Rome, prepared by Ionas Philologus, a pseudonym for the physician Johann Winter von Andernach, also known as Gonthier von Andernach, or Johann Guenther, or J. Guntherius. - STC (French) 370; Ebert II, 18488 (quotes Barbier and gives the name J. Gonthier); Weller, Lexicon pseud., 441 (Johann Guenther); Quérard, Supercheries, II, 416 (J. Guntherius). Ad II: A method of letter writing by the humanist, theologian and jurist Christoph Hegendorff (1500-1540), a pupil of Petrus Mosellanus. - Waterstained throughout, some worming in lower margin, ms. inscr. on title, one dated 1554, some old ms. marginalia, some old repairs.- STC (French) 217. Not in Adams. CLASSICS ;

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