[Opera].

Accession number:

PML 79161

Author:

Horace.

Published:

Venetiis [Venice] : a Georgio Arriuabene, M.cccc.xc. Pridie Non[us]. Februa. [4 February 1490/91]

Description:

[4], 253, [1] leaves ; 32 cm (folio)

Credit Line:

Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.

Notes:

Title and imprint from ISTC, etc.
Colophon (leaf F5r) reads: Horatii Flacci lyrici poetae opera: a Georgio Arriuabene: Mantuano: diligenter Venetiis impressa: Hic clauduntur. Anno salutis. M.cccc.xc. Pridie Non[us]. Februa. Laus Deo.
Printed in Arrivabene's types 11:110R, 13:81R, and 1 Greek type.
Collation: [1]⁴; a-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-E⁸ F⁶: 258 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and F6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Edited by Johannes Franciscus Philomusus, with the commentaries of Pseudo-Acro, Pomponius Porphyrion, and Christophorus Landinus.
Text surrounded on three sides with commentary, 58 lines per page, and head.
Printed guide letters with spaces for capitals.
Includes index, "Tabula postillarum", leaves [1]/2r-[1]/3v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.3 x 20.7 cm., trimmed.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).

Binding:

Modern stiff vellum over paper boards (31 x 21 cm.). Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands.

Variant Title:

Title on colophon: Horatii Flacci lyrici poetae opera

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication predominantly unrealized with several woodcut initials pasted in, some manuscript paragraph marks. Annotations: Heavily annotated throughout by Lapinus, 1536-1553. Manuscript diagram of an early globe and compass, 16th century

Provenance:

Eufrosino Lapini (1520?-1571), signatures, marginalia, and shelf mark: nn4 (leaf a1r); Giovanni Battista Pinelli, name stamp: "Ioannis Baptistae Pinelli" (leaf [1]/2r); John Charles Bigham Mersey, 1st viscount (1840-1929), inherited by his son: Charles Clive Bigham Mersey, 2nd viscount (1872-1956), of Bignor Park, book label (front pastedown); Mersey sale, Sotheby's London, 13 May 1963; Bernard Quaritch, cat. 841 (Winter 1963-64), no. 190; Marlborough Rare Books, cat. 62 (1969), no. 56; Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), Inc. 99, purchased from Marlborough, 19 April 1969 for $660.60; Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books