Accession number:
PML 6321.2
Published:
[Paris] : [Antoine Caillaut], [not after 1500]
Description:
[12] leaves ; 19 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf a1r: Quinti Oratii flacci de arte poetica ad pisones Liber incipit.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Caillaut's type 13:80G.
Signatures: a-b⁶: 12 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Text is printed with every other line skipped (for annotations).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.1 x 13.5 cm.
Binding:
18th/19th-century English gilt- and blind-tooled black straight-grained morocco over paper boards (19 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain orange paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
[The two works were probably not bound together until 19th century, so the Medicinable Morall provenance may not be related to the Ars poetica: Thomas Juxon, signature, 16th century (Medicinable title page); Thomas Tanner (1674-1735), signature (Medicinable title page), see Bod-inc provenance index; Thomas Park (1759-1834), signatures, 1792 (Medicinable title page and M4v);] Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), purchased from J.O. Wright, Aug. 1887; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with Irwin collection, 1900.
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