Horatij flacci Venusini. Poete lirici opera cu[m] quibusdam Annotat[i]o[n]ib[us] Imaginibusq[ue] pulcherrimis aptisq[ue] ad Odaru[m] conce[n]tus & sente[n]tias.

Accession number:

PML 126010

Author:

Horace.

Published:

Strasbourg : Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 12 March 1498.

Description:

[6], CCVII, [7] leaves : illustrations, device (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.

Notes:

Collation: [1]⁶; A-V⁶; X-Z, AA-II⁶ KK-LL⁸; [35]⁶: 220 leaves, leaf LL8 blank.
Edited by Jacobus Locher.
Imprint from colophon (leaf LL7v): "Elaboratum impressumq[ue] est hoc ... Horatij flacci Venusini lyrici Poete opus ... in celebri: libera: imperialiq[ue] vrbe Argentina. opera & i[m]pensis sedulis q[uo]q[ue] laborib[us] Prouidi viri Ioha[n]nis Reinhardi cognome[n]to Gürninger [sic] ciuis eiusde[m] vrbis arge[n]tinensis: q[ua]rto idus Marcij. absolutu[m] vero Anno domini M. cccc.xcviij."
Includes an abridged version of the commentaries of Pomponius Porphyrio, Pseudo-Acro, Cristoforo Landino and Antonio Mancinelli.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 20.8 cm
PML copy with leaf [1]/1 torn and rebacked and leaf LL8 (blank) wanting. Quire [35] bound after quire [1] at beginning. Quires A, H, and I on thinner paper (only 19.9 cm wide).
Printed foliation "I-CCVII" on leaves A1-LL7, with errors.
Printed in Grüninger's types 19:280G (title), 17:145G (title and headlines), 22:89R (text), 23:64bR (notes), and 4:52G (point letters).
Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters.
Title from title page (leaf [1]/1r.
With the commentary by Nicolaus Perottus.
Woodcut illustrations throughout, including the 3-part block of an author seated at his desk on leaf [pi1] recto, repeated nine times in text with the blocks in various combinations, eight integral woodcuts, of which 3 repeated, and 147 illustrations assembled from combinations of 2-5 smaller blocks, many of which repeated.
Woodcut printer's device on leaf LL7.

Binding:

19th-century blind-tooled brown calf over bevelled boards (29.5 x 22 cm), sewn on 5 supports; rebound by Blackie and Son, 1857 (cf. Folger Library, STC 9328). Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; red-stained edges.

Variant Title:

Horatii Flacci Venusini poetae lirici opera cum quibusdam annotationibus imaginibusque pulcherrimis aptisque ad odarum concentus et sententias

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Marginal annotations in several contemporary hands and underlining in text. Note "1497 Epistola ad Marchion. Padens" (leaf [1]/1r). Shelf mark(?) "M" (leaf [1]/1r).

Provenance:

[Johann August Ernesti (1707-1781), 1734]; Frederick Roach, of Arreton, Isle of Wight, signature and inscription stating that the book was rebound in 1857 and the binder removed a leaf with many signatures and names of former owners on it, but stating that it had been sold in Edinburgh and was once owned by John Augustus Ernesti in 1734 (second front fly leaf recto); Roach sale, 17 Dec. 1883; Maggs Bros., 1920, cat. no. 395, lot 168 (and another unidentified Maggs catalogue, description cut out, formerly laid-in, now in departmental file); E. Clark Stillman (1907-1995); Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Illustrations (Layout features)

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Century:

19th century

Department:

Printed Books