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<dl><dd>Titles from incipits for the two works, leaves a2 recto and l1 recto: Ioannis Iouiani Pontani De fortitudine ad Alfonsum Ducem Calabriae liber primus incipit ... ; Ioannis Iouiani Pontani ad Alfonsum Calabriae Ducem De principe liber feliciter incipit</dd>
<dd>Imprint derived from colophon (k6 verso): "Ioannis Iouiani Pontani De fortitudine opus finit feliciter: Impressum per Mathiam Morauum, atque emendatum accuratissime anno salutis dominicae M. CCCC. LXXXX. XV. Septembris regnante Ferdinando rege inclyto."</dd>
<dd>Collation: 4to: a-l⁸ m¹² [$4 (+m5,6) signed]; 100 leaves, unnumbered (k7, k8, and m12 blank)</dd>
<dd>Chancery quarto; a4 recto: 25 lines, 133 x 85 mm; type: 106R; initial spaces without guide letters</dd>
<dd>Errata: leaf a1 verso, following author's epigram addressed to the reader, "Emptor si quid habet uiti hac libellus ..." (8 Phalaecian hendecasyllables)</dd>
<dd>COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.81 with k8, and gatherings l and m bound-in at front. Leaf dimensions: 213 x 148 mm</dd>
<dd>PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.81 with ink stamp of the Austrian Bundesdenkmalamt. Dealer's prices, codes, etc., including "SLB1173" (Gilhofer &amp; Ranschburg?). Bookplate of the BPL Charlotte Harris Fund on rear pastedown. Ink stamp of Ignaz Lamatsch on l1 recto. Earlier ownership inscription on same leaf erased. Purchased in March, 1937.</dd></dl><dl><dd>BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.81 bound in later rigid vellum. Spine unlabeled</dd></dl><br>Subjects:</div>
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Pontanus, Johannes Jovianus</div>
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