Baptista, Mantuanus, Opuscula moralia. 1503?. 4°. Paris: Josse Badius, for Jean Petit.

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15 June 1503
Baptista, Mantuanus, 1448-1516.
Opuscula quędam moralia E Syluis Baptistę Mantuani excerpta & ab Ascensio annotata.
[Paris]: Venundantur parrhisiis vbi reliqua eiusdem opera in via ad diuum Iacobum Sub Leone argenteo [address of J. Petit]. [Colophon:] Impressa accuratione ascensiana, ad decimum quintum idus Iunias anni M.DIII. [1503].
4°: AA–CC⁸ DD–FF⁶.
Printed in Paris by Josse Badius for Jean Petit.
The date given in the colophon is impossible to interpret; it may indicate 15 June, though the Ides are on the 13th in June.
Badius’s letter to Petit (‘Ioanni Paruo compatri suo & bibliopole optimo’) is dated ‘vi. Cal. Iul. 1503’ (26 June) and mentions the dedication of the ‘Parthenia Tertia’ to Petit’s wife Marguerite [Guymier?]; ‘compater’ probably means ‘close friend and neighbour’, as French ‘compère’.
Signature pattern: ‘$’–‘$.iiii.’.
Catchword pattern: none.
Types: R4 (107mm); R16B (78mm); Gk5A (78mm).
Initials: spaces and guide letters.
Devices: Renouard 881 (J. Petit).
Inventaire chronologique 1503, no. 121.
Renouard, Badius, ii, 127–8.
Imprimeurs parisiens, ii, no. 17.
[IS000022]IA.42167(1).