[Opera].

Accession number:

PML 20028

Author:

Horace.

Published:

[Venice] : [Printer of Basilius, 'De vita solitaria'], [about 1471-1472]

Description:

[76, 30, 10, 42] leaves ; 22.5 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1915.

Notes:

Title and imprint from ISTC.
Each part with title caption, although some question as to which part should be bound first.
Printed in the Printer of Basilius 'De vita solitaria' type 1:116R.
Collation, in 4 parts (after GW): I (Carmina): [1-6¹⁰ 7-8⁸]: 76 leaves, leaf [8]/8 blank; II (Epistolae): [9-11¹⁰]: 30 leaves; III (Ars poetica): [12¹⁰]: 10 leaves; IV (Sermones): [13-15¹⁰ 16¹²]: 42 leaves. The blank leaf at the end of Carmina may suggest that this part should be last.
Paper format: Median quarto.
Morgan copy bound: parts II, III, IV, I.
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 21.6 x 15.6 cm.

Binding:

18th-century English gold tooled red morocco over paper boards (22.5 x 17 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary headlines and marginal notations (mainly keywords in Sermones and identifying some Carmen) in 3 different Italian hands.

Provenance:

Thomas Herbert (1656-1733), Earl of Pembroke, shelfmark: Kd.9. (front endleaf 1 verso) and binding (with pencil inscription for spine label and arabic numeral quire signatures), his sale: Sotheby's, 25 June 1914, lot 111, for £500 to Sandwith; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from J. Pearson & Co., Nov. 1915 (accessioned Jan. 1916).

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books