[Opera].

Accession number:

PML 78958

Author:

Horace.

Published:

Venice : Filippo di Pietro, 15 September 1478.

Description:

[118] leaves ; 30 x 20.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier collection, 1984.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Incipit (leaf (A2r): QUINTI HORATII FLACCI VENUSINI CARMINUM LIBER PRIMUS AD MECOENATEM.
Colophon (leaf (P6v): Horatii opere finis cum magna diligentia. Impressum per Philippu[m] conda[m] petri in veneciis duca[n]te Joanne mozenico inclito duce. M°cccc°lxxviii die xv septe[m]bris.
Printed in type 2*:115R.
Collation: (A-(O⁸ (P⁶: 118 leaves, leaf (A1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
BMC notes a variant (H 8873; Pr 4265) giving the erroneous date 1477.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.8 x 19.8 cm.

Binding:

Modern binding reusing a 14th/15th-century music manuscript leaf over paper boards (30 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and flyleaves with the watermark of Pietro Miliani, Fabriano; decorative endband.

Variant Title:

Opere

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: 1 northern French/Flemish illuminated initial (leaf (A2r), alternating red and blue lombards and paragraph marks. Annotations: Heavy early marginal notations throughout, some in Greek (by Rolandus?), foliation, and pagination.

Provenance:

Antonius(?) Rolandus, signature: Ant. Rolandi (leaf (A2r) and annotations (?=Antoine Roland of Geneva, active ca. 1485-1511); William S. Glazier (1907-1962), bookplate; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier collection, 1984.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books