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[Opera].

Accession number
PML 79019.2
Creator
Horace.
Object title

[Opera].

Published

Leipzig : Martin Landsberg, 1492.

Description

[266] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)

Credit line
Gift of William S. Glazier, 1984.
Notes
Collation: Odae I: A-C⁸ D⁶, leaf D6 blank; Odae II: A⁸ B-C⁶; Odae III: D-G⁸; Odae IV: A⁸ B-C⁶, leaf C6 blank; Liber epodon: A⁸ B⁶ C⁸, leaf C8 blank; Carmen seculare: A⁶; Ars poetica: A-B⁸; Satirae: A-L⁶, leaf L6 blank; Epistolae: A⁸ B⁶ C-F⁸.
Imprint from colophon (leaf C7r of Liber epodon).
In nine parts, which may have been issued separately (Goff).
Paper format: Chancery quarto
PML copy is bound: Satirae, Epistolae, Odae I, Liber epodon, Odae IV, Odae II, Odae, III, and Carmen secualre. PML copy lacks this edition's Ars poetica.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.5 x 14.5 cm
Printed in Landsberg's types 1:88G and 2:156G.
Some parts of the Epistolae are explicitly edited by Jacobus Barinus or Johannes Honorius.
Binding
16th-century blind-tooled and -rolled pigskin over stiff paper boards (21.9 x 15.5) on four double bands by Johann von Sachsen (Marburg, Hesse), dated 1568 (EBDB w000410). Roll with Reformation medallions: Martin Luther, Philipp Melachthon, Erasmus of Rotterdam, and Johann Hus (see Haebler I, 462-463 and EBDB r003195). Plain paper pastedowns and flyleaves; decorative endbands; edges stained red. Original leather ties from top and bottom boards cut away. Contemporary manuscript binding signatures on final versos of textual sections, seemingly ignored when binding.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: lombard initials, headlines, paragraph marks, marginal chapter divisions, and underlining; same rubrication as Ars poetica (1495). Annotations: Heavily annotated in Latin in multiple hands, contemporary/sixteenth century. Manicules have highly extended forefinger with knuckles. Paper trimmed, affecting some marginalia. No annotations or headlines in Book II of the Satirae or Liber epodon. Epistolae (leaf A1r) with manuscript "Ad lectorem" of Jacobus Barinus copied from Florus, Epitomae rerum Romanorum (Leipzig: Landsberg, 4 Apr. 1494), ISTC if00238200.
Provenance
Contemporary square paper shelf mark label on spine, 22[?], unidentified; paper bookplate (13.4 x 9 cm), removed from front pastedown; William Simon Glazier (1907-1962), booklabel; Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, gift of William S. Glazier.
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