Accession number
PML 18070
Creator
Horace.
Object title
Christophori Landini Florentini In Q. Horatii Flacci libros omnes ad illustrissimum guidonem feltrium magni federici ducis filium interpretationes incipiunt foeliciter.
Published
Impressum Venetiis : Per Joannem de Forlivio & socios, anno Salutis 1483.
Description
[208] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904-5.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): CHRISTOPHORI LANDINI FLORENTINI IN .Q. HORATII FLACII LIBROS OMNES AD ILLUSTRISSIMUM GUIDONEM FELTRIUM MAGNI FEDERICI DUCIS FILIUM INTERPRETATIONES INCIPIUNT FOELICITER.
At end of tabula and registrum (leaf [1]/6v): Christophori Landini florentini in Qu. Horatii flacci op[er]a o[mn]ia i[n]terpretationum finis. Divino auxilio Foelix. die .xvii. maii M.cccc.lxxxiii.
Colophon (leaf [con]8r): Impressum Venetiis per Joannem de forlivio & socios. Anno salutis. M.CCCC.LXXXIII. FINIS.
Printed in types 5:111R, 6:83R, and 49:83Gr.
Signatures: [1]⁶; a-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸: 208 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Contains biographical information: leaves a1 and a2 recto.
Text enclosed in commentary.
Guide letters with spaces for initials.
Includes register.
List of emendations (leaf 6).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.6 x 21.1 cm.
At end of tabula and registrum (leaf [1]/6v): Christophori Landini florentini in Qu. Horatii flacci op[er]a o[mn]ia i[n]terpretationum finis. Divino auxilio Foelix. die .xvii. maii M.cccc.lxxxiii.
Colophon (leaf [con]8r): Impressum Venetiis per Joannem de forlivio & socios. Anno salutis. M.CCCC.LXXXIII. FINIS.
Printed in types 5:111R, 6:83R, and 49:83Gr.
Signatures: [1]⁶; a-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸: 208 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Contains biographical information: leaves a1 and a2 recto.
Text enclosed in commentary.
Guide letters with spaces for initials.
Includes register.
List of emendations (leaf 6).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.6 x 21.1 cm.
Binding
18th-century English gilt-tooled sprinkled calf over paper boards (29.5 x 22 cm.), sewn on 6 supports; rebacked. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; plain endbands; yellow edges.
Variant title
Opera
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue lombards, red paragraph marks and capital strokes; some initials unrealized. Annotations: Marginal annotations throughout text, all abraded.
Provenance
Unidentified sale catalogue reference: Cat. xxxv, no. 604 (front pastedown); John Paul Bocock (1856-1903), bookplate dated 1902 (front pastedown); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from J.P. Bocock, 1904-1905 (accessioned 1908).
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