[Opera].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horace.

Contributor:

Printer of Basilius, 'De vita solitaria', active 1471-1475, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. 1471

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Lippert'sche Buchhandlung (label)

Physical Description:

158 unnumbered leaves (leaf [76] blank) ; 22 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

toie ess* ors* FiMu (C) 1471 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : [Printer of Basilius, 'De vita solitaria'], [1471-72?]

Notes:

Contains Horace's Carmina, Epistulae, Poetria (i.e. Ars poetica) and Sermones (i.e. Satirae) in no fixed order: GW gives "1. Carmina ... 2. Epistolae ... 3. Ars poetica ... 4. Sermones"; BM 15th cent. records 1 copy in which "[t]he Ars Poetica is bound between the Sermones and the Epistolae" and 1 in which the Carmina "are bound after the Sermones and Epistolae, and the ... Ars poetica between leaves [h]1 and [h]2 (69 and 70)."

Title from Goff.

Imprint from ISTC.

Chancery quarto. Leaf a2r: 26 lines; area of text: 142 x 66 mm. Initial spaces. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: Carmina: [a]-[f]¹⁰ [g]-[h]⁸ ; Epistulae: [a]-[c]¹⁰ ; Poetria: [a]¹⁰ ; Sermones: [a]-[c]¹⁰ [d]¹². Cf. GW.

Leaf [h]8 is blank.

Caption on leaf [a]1r of the Carmina reads: Quinti Oratii Flacci Carminum liber primus.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy: contents appear in the following order: 1. Carmina (leaves bound in as follows: [a]-[c]¹⁰ [d]1-9 [f]2-10 [g]1 [d]10 [e]¹⁰ [f]1 [g]2-8 [h]1-7) ; 2. Poetria ; 3. Sermones (leaves bound in as follows: [a]1-8,10,9 [b]-[c]¹⁰ [d]¹²) ; 4. Epistulae.

Leaf size: 204 x 152 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: many initials supplied in red ms.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves foliated in modern ms. in pencil in head outer corner and at foot.

Penn Libraries copy has bookseller's label ("LIPPERT'sche BUCHHANDLUNG ANTIQUARIAT HALLE A.S. ...") on verso of front free endpaper; printed paper slip with bookseller's description of this copy in German affixed to verso of front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy bound in half blind-tooled calf over marbled paper boards; backstrip wanting; marbled endpapers; all edges red; leaves mounted on stubs and reinforced on both sides with Pflanzenpapier (cf. bookseller's description).

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf [h]8 (blank) wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: boards and free endpapers detached from textblock; spine damaged; some gatherings detached from textblock; some leaves, particularly at beginning and end of volume, damaged with occasional minor loss of text.

Cited in:

Goff H-439

BM 15th cent. V, p. 187 (IA.24817-24818)

GW 13449

BN cat. des incun. H-268

ISTC ih00439000

OCLC:

249352847