[Opera]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Opera]
Other titles: Quinti Horatii Flacci Venusini Carminum Liber primus ad Mecoenatem
Classmark: BC Incunabula HOR
Creator(s): Horácio
Additional creator(s): Zarotto, Antonio (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: Antonius Zarothus Parmensis [for Marco Roma]; Antonius Zarotus [for Marco Roma]
Publication city: [Milan]
Date(s): Anno a Natali Christiano 1474 die 16 Martii. [16 March 1474]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 127 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/56756
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007757339705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Leaf [1r]: QuINTI Horatii Flacci Venusini Carmiunm [sic] Liber Primus ad Mecœnatem.
Zarotus' edition of Pseudo-Acro's Commentary on Horace (Milan, 13 August 1474) was issued to accompany this edition of the poet's works.
Printed with 33 and 34 lines long lines to a full page.
No signatures or pagination.
Leaves [59], [101], [126] and [127] are blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ih00446000.
Indexed in: Hain. Repertorium (with Copinger's Supplement) 8876 (1).
Features
Numerous marginal annotations in black ink manuscript, late fifteenth- and sixteenth century.
Leaf numbers have been supplied in early ink manuscript at the top right of rectos.
Four major initials have been illuminated in gold, red, green and blue.
Other major initials supplied in red and blue.
Wanting the final blank leaf.
Bindings
Binding of full yellow pigskin. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border of stylised foliage and scrolls with a fleuron inside each corner. Four similar fleurons form a motif at the centre. The spine has three slightly raised bands and is blind-tooled with diagonal single fillets with circles at each intersection. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Horace. Opera. Gold-tooled near the base of the spine are the place and date: Milan 1474. The third panel contains the Brotherton Collection stamp in gold. There is evidence of metal clasps having been attached to the upper and lower boards. Written in ink manuscript on the fore-edge: Horatii. The head of the spine is slightly detached to reveal the endband. Size: 293 x 205mm. Leaf size: 280 x 192mm.
Provenance
At the foot of the recto of the first leaf is a round coat of arms with a black lion rampant against a gold ground with red to either side, enclosed in a green garland.
At the bottom right of the recto of the first leaf are the remains of a circular library stamp, now indistinct, with a horse rampant at its centre and lettering around the edge.
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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