Catullus. Tibullus. Propetius.
Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.84-c.54BC)
Category
Books
Date
1502
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124742
Summary
Bibliographic description
[304] p. ; 8vo. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Viscount Birkenhead'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full brown morocco, elaborate gilt tooled panel design with leaves and flowers; sewn on to five raised bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct: 'Catvllvs Tibvllvs Propertivs' and 'Aldvs 1502'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers; blue, red and yellow ribbon marker. Binder's gilt-stamp on front turn-in: Cape.
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 (1449/50-1515), editor