Petri Pauli Vergerii de Ingenuis moribus opusculum utilissimum. Hieronymi presbiteri de officiis liberorum erga parentes epistola exhortatoria. Quintiliani de officio discipulorum erga praeceptores brevis admonitio

VERGERIUS, Petrus Paulus

Published by Ex e?dibus Ascensianis . ad nonas junias, [Paris], 1510

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Quarto. [28] unpaginated leaves [56pp.], illustrated with a woodcut of printers at work on the title page and decorated initials. Text in Latin. Bound in 19th century light brown paste paper over flexible boards. Bookplate of Stanley C. Bagg [circa 1870] on the front pastedown. The spine and edges of the boards are worn, title page lightly soiled, very good or better. An attractive, well-preserved copy of a short epistolary treatise by Vergerius (1370-1444). A wandering scholar and teacher who traveled throughout Italy and Northern Europe, Vergerius wrote the first important Renaissance treatise systematically outlining a humanist education for Ubertino, the son of Francesco Carrara, lord of Padua. From the library of Stanley Clark Bagg, a prestigious member of one of Montreal s oldest English families, and co-founder of the Numismatic Society of Montreal in 1862, and of the English Workingman s Benefit Society. Scarce. *OCLC* locates only three copies in Britain and France.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Petri Pauli Vergerii de Ingenuis moribus opusculum utilissimum. Hieronymi presbiteri de officiis liberorum erga parentes epistola exhortatoria. Quintiliani de officio discipulorum erga praeceptores brevis admonitio
• Publisher: Ex e?dibus Ascensianis . ad nonas junias, [Paris]
• Publication Date: 1510
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good