Avsonii peonii poetae disertissimi epigrammata
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Avsonii peonii poetae disertissimi epigrammata
Other titles: Epigrammata; Ausonii peonii poetae disertissimi epigrammata
Classmark: BC Incunabula/AUS
Creator(s): Ausonius, Decimus Magnus
Additional creator(s): Ferrarius, Julius Aemilius (Other); Joannes Tacuinus, de Tredino (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Ferrarius, Julius Aemilius; Joannes; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: impressa per magistrum Ioannem de Cereto alias Tacuinum de Tridino; Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino
Publication city: Venitiis [Venice]
Date(s): Anno domini.M.cccc.xciiii.die.xi.Augusti. [11 August 1494]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [42] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/39483
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007729989705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: A⁴ B⁶ C⁴ D-G⁶ H⁴.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on H3v reads: Expliciunt ea Ausonii fragmenta: quæ inuida cuncta corrodens uetustas ad manus nr̃as uenire p[er]misit. Venetiis impressa per magistrum Ioannem de Cereto alias Tacuinum de Tridino. Anno domini.M.cccc.xciiii.die.xi.Augusti.
Printed with 44 lines to a full page.
No foliation, pagination, headlines or catchwords.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Woodcut printer's mark on H4r with the monogram ZT.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ia01402000.
Indexed in: Goff A-1402; Hain *2178; Pellechet 1647; BMC V 28.
Features
Note in pencil manuscript on the title page, nineteenth- or twentieth-century: Version 1494. The following words are illegible.
The major initial on A1v is supplied and decorated in red ink manuscript.
Initials supplied alternately in red and blue throughout.
Some slight worm damage to the final eight leaves.
Bindings
Nineteenth-century binding of quarter pale brown calf and brown and olive marbled paper over pasteboard. The spine has five raised bands and in the second panel is a pared dark brown leather lettering piece gold-tooled with the words: Avsonii Opera. The pastedowns are of marbled paper featuring the spot pattern in red, green, blue, brown and cream. The book has a green silk ribbon register. Watermark on the title page, a scales within a circle surmounted by a staff and cross. Size: 320 x 221mm. Leaf size: 313 x 210mm.
Provenance
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
Access and usage
Access
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