Extremely rare rhetorical and grammatical treatise by the Antwerp humanist Joachim Sterck van Ringelberg (or Joachimus Fortius Ringelbergius, 1500-1536). Ringelberg was a native of Antwerp and an associate of Erasmus. He, studied, and later taught, at the Collegium Trilingue in Leuven between 1516 and 1526. We have found only one copy held at an institution worldwide (at the university library in Freiburg, Germany) and have found no copies in sales records of the last 100 years.
The work, also known under the title Schemata, is a concise rhetorical and grammatical treatise that examines both the Figurae orationis and the Vitia orationis. It presents proverbial expressions, aphorisms, and moral sayings drawn from classical tradition, often cited without attribution.
This edition was probably printed in Paris around 1529 by Pierre Gromors, during Ringelbergs documented stay in the city (September 1529-early 1530). The Last Supper frame on the title page corresponds to another Gromors edition of a work by Erasmus published in 1530 (Brevissima maximeque compendiaria conficiendarum epistolarum formula).
The work is of particular bibliographical interest, as it concludes with a Catalogus lucubrationum Ioachimi Fortij Ringelbergij Antuerpiani, listing twenty-four works by the author, the first being his celebrated Institutiones Astronomicae, and ending with the notice: ("Haec omnia prostant apud autorem"), all works available directly from the author.
The lower third of the leaves water stained throughout. Otherwise in good condition. Indestege, "Verslagen en mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse taal- en letterkunde (nieuwe reeks)," (1972), pp. 73-97, p. 79; Moreau, III 1900; USTC No. 184924 (lost book); WorldCat 311910145 (1 copy, UB Freiburg); cf. USTC 184861 (Erasmus 1530 ed. with the same last supper frame); not in Nijhoff & Kronenberg.