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Horatius cum quattuor commentariis.

Accession number
PML 79018
Creator
Horace.
Object title

Horatius cum quattuor commentariis.

Published

Venetiis impressa : per Ioannem aluysium de uarisio Mediolane[n]sem, Anno salutis .M.cccc.lxxxxviii. die xxiii. mensis Iullii [23 July 1498]

Description

[3], II-CCLVII (i.e. CCLVIII), [4] leaves (the last blank) : illustrations (woodcut) ; 30 x 21 cm. (fol.)

Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier collection, 1984.
Notes
Title from half-title page (leaf [1]/1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf G5r): Horatii Flaccii poetae opera: per Ioannem aluysium de uarisio Mediolane[n]sem. Venetiis impressa. Anno salutis .M.cccc.lxxxxviii. die xxiii. mensis Iullii.
Printed in Alvisius's types 1:107R, 2:83R, 3:180G, and 7:83Gr.
Signatures: [1]²; a-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-F⁸ G⁶: 264 leaves, leaf G6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery (maybe Median?) folio
Miscellaneous: Capital spaces, with guide letters; printed marginal notes; woodcut illustration on title page depicts commentators and editor.
Text surrounded by the commentaries of Antonius Mancinellus, (Pseudo- ) Acron, Pomponius Porphyrio and Christophorus Landinus. Edited by Antonius Mancinellus.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.8 x 20.5 cm.
Binding
16th/17th-century Italian stiff vellum over paper boards (30 x 21 cm.), sewn on 5 supports.
Variant title
Title in ISTC: Opera
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication partially realized by annotator. Annotations: 16th-century marginal notations and reader's marks throughout -- more extensive in Epodae, Ars poetica, and Sermones -- but many are trimmed with bookblock.
Provenance
Gaspare Celerino (Celerinus; b. 1540s), signature and initials throughout; Stefano Lemuggi (later 16th century), inscription: "Ad Stephani Lemuggii ac amicor[um] usum" (leaf [1]/1r) (see biographical information regarding Celerino and Lemuggi in dept. file, submitted by Giacomo Cellerino, Jan. 2024); inscription: "Magistri honesti de ruebanis," 16th century (leaf G5v); unidentified Jesuit(?) inscription: "Collegii [abraded] Iesu Dup: Cat:," 17th century (leaf [1]/1r); John Francis Neylan (1885-1960), his sale, Sotheby's (London), 28 May 1962, lot 37, to Maggs for £80 (where Glazier purchased?); William S. Glazier (1907-1962), booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier collection, 1984.
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