Catvllvs. Tibvllvs. Propertivs. Cn. Cornelii Galli poetaeme moratissimi, aut ut quidam uolu[n]t Maximiani quae recolligi potu[ere] refragmenta.

Accession number: 
PML 1210
Author: 
Catullus, Gaius Valerius.
Published: 
Lugduni : Impressum Lugduni sumptu honesti bibliopolae Bartholomei Trot, Anno domini Millesimo quingentesimo XVIII. die xxij Mensis Septembris [22 September 1518]
Description: 
[152] leaves ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Credit: 
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes: 

Signatures: a-t⁸.
Imprint taken from colophon: Impressum Lugduni sumptu Bartholomei Trot Anno domini Millesimo quingentesimo XVIII. die xxij Mensis Septembris.
Printed in italic type; title printed in red within woodcut ornamental border; capital spaces with guide letters; decorated initials.
Contains the same dedicatory letter by Aldus Manutius to Marinus Sannutus, but with the error in the title corrected i.e. 'Benedicti filio' (sig. A1 verso), and at the end of Catullus the letter of Hieronymus Avantius to Marino Sanudo with a series of emendations concerning the text of Lucretius, as in the Aldine edition.
A re-impression of the undated editions printed in Lyons, which were counterfeits of the Aldine 1502 edition: see Renouard.
Copied ultimately from the 1502 Aldine edition, but no longer a simple counterfeit in appearance; see Shaw.
Probably printed by Jacques Myt; see Ahmanson-Murphy.
Edited by Hieronymus Avantius and Aldus Manutius.

Binding: 
16th-century blind-rolled calf over paper boards; rebacked by Sanford and Clarke.
Variant Title: 

Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius

Provenance: 
Georg Kloss (1787-1854), bookplate; Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), armorial booklabel (front pastedown) and bibliographical note (front fly leaf recto); James Toovey (1814-1893), purchased Gosford's library en bloc in 1878, Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
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