Accession number
PML 21151
Creator
Horace.
Object title
Artis poeticae Horacii flacci Institutio.
Published
[Deventer] : [Richardus Pafraet], [approximately 1486-1487]
Description
[12] leaves ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC, dated on paper evidence (WILC). HPT dated between 1488 and 24 Dec. 1490; GW dates as about 1489.
Printed in Pafraet's type 4*:88G.
Signatures: A-B⁶: 12 leaves, leaf B6 blank (presumably, missing on all known copies).
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.8 x 14 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: B6 (presumably blank).
Imprint from ISTC, dated on paper evidence (WILC). HPT dated between 1488 and 24 Dec. 1490; GW dates as about 1489.
Printed in Pafraet's type 4*:88G.
Signatures: A-B⁶: 12 leaves, leaf B6 blank (presumably, missing on all known copies).
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.8 x 14 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: B6 (presumably blank).
Binding
19th-century half parchment, with paste paper sides, over paper boards (21.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 2 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: Extensive contemporary marginal and interlinear notations, in a northern European hand, on leaves A2r-3v only; later notation in another hand, leaf A5r.
Provenance
J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Maggs Bros., Sept. 1920.
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