Horatij flacci Venusini. Poete lirici opera cu[m] quibusdam annotat[i]o[n]ib[us]. Imaginibusq[ue] pulcherimis. aptisq[ue] ad Odaru[m] conce[n]tus [et] sente[n]tias.
Horace (65 - 8 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1498
Materials
Place of origin
Strasbourg
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3138637
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], CCVII, [7] leaves : ill. (woodcut) ; fol. Running number: 6919. Decoration: initials and paragraph marks supplied throughout in red or blue; capital strokes supplied in yellow throughout. Imperfect: wanting blank leaf LL8. Final six leaves (chi1-6) containing the index are misbound as prelims. following leaf pi6; pagination thus: [12], CCVII leaves. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript inscriptions on title page: "deris", "[?]hot 1630", and some erased. Occasional manuscript interlinear gloss and marginal annotations in late fifteenth or sixteenth-century hand. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; upper board wooden[?], lower pasteboard; sewn onto four supports; seven raised bands (three false); double gilt fillet border; blind panel of two roll patterns with cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; brown leather label gilt-lettered 'Horatius 1498' on spine; red sprinkled bookblock edges; comb and swirl pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Horace (65 - 8 BC), author Jacob Locher (1471-1528), editor Niccolò Perotti (1430-1480) Archbishop of Siponto, commentator Pomponius Porphyrio, commentator Pseudo-Acro, commentator Cristoforo Landino (1424-1504), commentator Antonio Mancinelli (1452-1505), commentator Johann Grüninger (d.1532?), printer