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Accession number: 
PML 19353
Author: 
Horace.
Published: 
Lvgdvni : Apud Seb. Gryphivm, 1551.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description: 
312 pages ; 13 cm (8vo)
Notes: 

On p. 5-8: Q. Horatii Flacci Vita per Petrum Crinitvm.
Text printed in italics.
Title-vignette: printer's mark (Silvestre 486).

Binding: 
16th-century French (Lyon?) gilt-tooled brown calf with strapwork design painted in black, yellow, and white (over red); unidentified, gilt-tooled armorial (front board), author/title gilt-tooled (rear board). Gilt, gauffered, and painted edges. PML 19353-55 in same binding.
Provenance: 
Unidentified armorial: lion laying down and looking back up at a star/lion couchant en chef d'une étoile (front board); Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Gruel, 1912.
Classification: 
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