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
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Type of record: Book
Title: 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
Other titles: Opera; Horatii Flacci Venusini poetae lirici opera
Classmark: Strong Room for. fol. 1498/HOR
Creator(s): Horace
Additional creator(s): Locher, Jacob (1471-1528) (Other); Pseudo-Acro (Other); Pomponius Porphyrio (Other); Mancinelli, Antonio (1452-1505) (Other); Landino, Cristoforo (1424-1504) (Other); Perotti, Niccolò (1430-1480) (Other); Grüninger, Johann (Printer); Gibbs, Henry Hucks (1819-1907) (Former owner); Oelsner, Johann Wilhelm (1766-1848) (Former owner)
Related people: Locher, Jacob; Pseudo-Acro; Pomponius Porphyrio; Mancinelli, Antonio; Landino, Cristoforo; Perotti, Niccolò; Grüninger, Johann; Gibbs, Henry Hucks; Oelsner, Johann Wilhelm
Publisher: Prouidi viri Ioha[n]nis Reinhardi cognome[n]to Gürninger [sic]; Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger
Publication city: [Strassburg]
Date(s): q[ua]rto idus Marcij, absolutu[m] vero Anno domini M. cccc.xcviij. [12 March 1498]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [6], CCVII, [7] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/35850
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007634219705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
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.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Leaf LL8 is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ih00461000.
Indexed in: Hain-Copinger 8898; Goff H461.
Features
Copious marginal and textual annotations in sixteenth-century black ink manuscript with manicules and occasional lines of music.
The margins have been cropped.
Wanting the blank leaf LL8 following leaf CCVII.
Bindings
Eighteenth-century half-binding of pale brown calf and paper over pasteboard. The spine has five raised bands and is decorated with gold-tooled fleurons. Gold-tooled on the spine are the words: Horatius ed. Argent 1498. The pastedowns are of paste paper with a combed pattern in red. The book has red edges and a green silk ribbon register. Size: 306 x225mm. Leaf size: 300 x 210mm.
Provenance
Nineteenth-century inscription in black ink manuscript in Latin on the verso of the first front flyleaf facing the title page, signed: Oelsner, Wratisl. 1818. This is most likely Johann Wilhelm Oelsner.
Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown: Audenham House, Herts. The bookplate bears the motto: Tenax propositi. This is the motto of the Gibbs family (barons Aldenham). The work is listed on p.206 of the 1914 "Catalogue of the Aldenham library".
Written in black ink manuscript on the recto of the first front flyleaf: Henry H. Gibbs, St Dunstans 1865. Below in the same hand in pencil manuscript: Bought of Ellis £5.5s.
Cutting from a sale catalogue on the front pastedown with a price of £50. Gibbs' libary was sold my Sotherby's in 1937.
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Profile: Henry Hucks Gibbs (1819-1907)
Biography of Henry Hucks Gibbs, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.
Profile: Johann Wilhelm Oelsner (1766-1848)
Biography of Johann Wilhelm Oelsner, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.