Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius.
Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.84-c.54BC)
Category
Books
Date
1515
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3070895
Summary
Bibliographic description
148, [2] leaves ; 8vo. Running number: 676. Provenance: nineteenth-century manuscript inscriptions on recto of front free endpaper: [1] bibliographic note "Renouard Tom. I. p. 164. 148 feuillets ..."; [2] price in pencil "s15/-". Nineteenth-century manuscript inscriptions on verso of front free endpaper: [1] "Edward Hawkins Junr 10 April 1841"; [2] pencil note "This is a reimpression of the edition of 1502 & the first book published after the death of Aldus, who died Feb. 8 1515 - vid Renouard Suppl. p. 13". Manuscript inscriptions on title page: [1] six lines in Greek; [2] ownership inscription, inked-over and illegible. Manuscript inscriptions, including various booksellers' codes, on rear pastedown: [1] "p. xo"; [2] "C&M 294 ^/-" (in pencil); [3] "Collated & Perfect. S.H"; [4] "Constitit[?] … anno 1530". Binding: Germany, sixteenth-century alum-tawed pigskin over pasteboards; sewn on three double sewing supports; covers blind-tooled with framework of thin thick thin fillets to a panel design; on front cover, the outer frame with pictorial roll featuring classical goddesses (Juno, Pallas, Venus), the middle frame with repeated cinquefoil tool (three on each side, one at top and bottom), owner's[?] initials 'VW' stamped in black at top, date '1530' stamped in black at bottom, and the central panel with two rows of repeated floral tool; on rear cover the same, but the outer frame instead with heads-in-medallions roll and the middle frame without initials and date; blind-tooled spine, with red goatskin title label 'CATULLUS ALD 1515' in gilt; three raised bands; front and rear pastedowns lifted to reveal underneath printed waste taken from Martin Luther's 'Auslegu[n]g der Episteln vnd Euangelien vom Aduent an bis auff Ostern' (Wittenberg, 1528) (VD16 L3953) and vellum manuscript waste.
Makers and roles
Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.84-c.54BC), author Albius Tibullus (c.48 - 19 BCE), author Sextus Aurelius Propertius (c.50/45 - c.15 BC), author Hieronymus Avancius (fl.1500), editor Aldo Manuzio the Elder (1449/50 - 1515), editor Andreas Torresanus de Asula (1451-1529), printer Aedes Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, printer