Horatij flacci Venusini. Poete lirici Opera : cu[m] quibusdam annotatio[n]ibus. Imaginibusq[ue] pulcherrimis. aptisq[ue] ad Odaru[m] conce[n]tus [et] sente[n]tias

Description

Signatures: [*]⁶ A-Z⁶ AA-II⁶ KK-LL⁸ [**]⁶.


Imprint from colophon.


Colophon on leaf LL7v reads: Elaboratum impressum que... in celebri: libera: imperiali que vrbe Argentina. opera & impensis sedulis quoque laboribus Prouidi viri Iohannis Reinhardi cognomento Gürninger [sic] ciuis eiusdem vrbis argentinensis: q[ua]rto idus Marcij. absolutu[m] vero Anno domini M. cccc.xcviij.


First illustrated edition.


Includes an abridged version of the commentaries of Pomponius Porphyrio, Pseudo-Acro, Cristoforo Landino and Antonio Mancinelli, edited by Jacob Locher.


Includes a prefatory letter and poems by Locher.


Tabula metrorum by Niccolò Perotti on leaves [*5r]-[*6v].


The woodcut illustrations include: a 3-part block of an author seated at his desk (on the title page and repeated 9 times in text with the blocks in various combinations); 8 integral woodcuts (5 blocks, 3 repeated); and 147 illustrations assembled from combinations of 2-5 smaller blocks (many repeated).


Woodcut printer's mark above the colophon on LL7v.


Leaded text in a single column with interlinear gloss, flanked by commentary in two columns with 74 lines to a full column.


Printed on sheets of chancery-size paper.


Printed foliation I-CCVII on leaves A1-LL7, with errors.


Leaf LL8 is blank.


Indexed in: ISTC no. ih00461000.


Indexed in: Hain-Copinger 8898; Goff H461.

Features

Inscription in black ink manuscript, seventeenth-century, beneath the woodcut on the title page: [...] Joh. Hoefel D. v Uffenheim Franc. Reip. Suinford[...] Consiliar[...].


Very occasional annotations to the text in black ink manuscript, seventeenth-century.


The woodcut on the title page is partially coloured in red and yellow.


Some water damage.


Bindings


Late sixteenth-century binding of vellum over pasteboard. Stamped in black at the top of the upper cover is the name: I Hoefel D. Blind-stamped beneath are the letters M D N and at the bottom of the upper cover the date: 1597. Written in faded black ink manuscript on a paper lettering piece at the top of the smooth spine are the words: Horatii Flacci Venusini Poetae lirici opera - Anno 1498. The leaf edges are coloured blue. Size: 296 x 210mm. Leaf size: 285 x 200mm.

Provenance

Blind-stamped on the upper cover is the monogram M D N.


Blind-stamped at the the bottom of the upper cover is a date: 1597.


Stamped in black at the top of the upper cover is the name: I Hoefel D.


On the front pastedown is a printed rectangular label bearing an engraved oval portrait and text: Iohannes Hoefelius Ufenheim: francus ictus et Reip. Suinford: Consiliarius. A MDCXXXXV.æt 45. This indicates that the book was owned by Johannes Hevelius, councillor and mayor of Danzig and astronomer.


Book label with printed border at the top left of the front pastedown: Carl Ios. von Adelsheim. The book was once in the possession of Carl Joseph von Adelsheim (1790-1864).


Cutting from a French sale catalogue on the front pastedown.


Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the verso of the title page. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.

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