Claudiani Opera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Claudianus, Claudius.

Contributor:

Ugoleto, Taddeo, 1448-approximately 1513.

Joannes, Tacuinus, de Tridino, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. 1495

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Incunabula.

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 15th century.

Penn Provenance:

Haney, John Louis, 1877-1860 (bookplate) (donor)

Coullsbery, Henry (autograph)

Ward, John (autograph)

Warde, W. (autograph)

Warde, Willium(?) (autograph)

Physical Description:

128 unnumbered leaves ; 22 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Clavdiani Opera

Goff title: Opera

Fingerprint:

isne iss. s:t: EtOm (C) 1495 (R)

Place of Publication:

Imp[re]ssit Venetiis : Ioa[n]nes de Tridino alias Tacuinus, Anno. M.cccc.xcv die. yi. Iunii [6 June 1495]

Notes:

Edited by Taddeo Ugoleto. Cf. colophon.

Imprint from colophon on leaf q8r, which reads: Opera Claudia[n]i dilige[n]ter eme[n]data [per] Thadaeu[m] Vgoletum Parme[n]sem. Imp[re]ssit Venetiis Ioa[n]nes de Tridino alias Tacuinus. Anno. M.cccc.xcv. die. yi. [sic] Iunii. (BM 15th cent. and GW record imprint date as: Anno. M.cccc.xcv. die. vi. Iunii.)

Chancery quarto. Leaf a3r: 40 lines; area of text: 160 x 79 mm. Woodcut initials; a few initial spaces with guide letters. Printed paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Woodcut printer's device (67 x 54 mm.) on leaf q8v. Register on leaf q8r.

Signatures: a-q⁸.

"Contents: Carmina maiora et publica; Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus; Carmina minora (see GW); De raptu Proserpinae"--ISTC. "Includes a poem by Bernardinus Saxoguidanus"--Walsh.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 207 x 149 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has a few early ms. underlines and marginal notes in brown ink on leaves a2v and a4v.

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 1960 by John L. Haney, with his illustrated bookplate affixed to front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy has several early autographs of "W [or Willium(?)] Warde" (identifying himself as "Rec[t]or de pilham" and "[par]son of pilham") in brown ink on title leaf; partially illegible early autograph (struck through) of "Christopher Jack[...?]" at head of title leaf; early autographs of "John Ward" in brown ink on title leaf; dated autograph ("Henry Coullsbery 1651") at foot of title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy has two early ms. inscriptions (1 in Greek, 1 in Latin) on title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy bound in modern gold-ruled half calf over marbled paper boards; 7 horizontal gold rules dividing spine; brief title ("CLAUDIANI OPERA") and imprint date ("1495") stamped in gold on spine; evidence of ms. title on fore-edge.

Penn Libraries copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy affixed to front pastedown; a few modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy: lower portion of title leaf excised and replaced with a blank leaf without loss of text; head outer corners of leaves m6-m7 each excised with some loss of text and replaced with a blank leaf upon which the missing text (and, in the case of leaf m7v, a missing woodcut initial) has been supplied in ms.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves intermittently dampstained at edges; red stain at fore-edge of leaves b2-b4.

Cited in:

Goff C-703

BM 15th cent. V, p. 529 (IA.24048)

GW 7061

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2559

ISTC ic00703000

OCLC:

54246957