Horatij Flacci Venusini. Poete lirici opera cu[m] quibusdam annotat[i]o[n]ib[us]. Imaginibusq[ue] pulcherrimis. aptisq[ue] ad Odaru[m] conce[n]tus [et] sente[n]tias.
Horace.
Locher, Jacob,1471-1528.
Pseudo-Acro.
Pomponius Porphyrio,active 3rd century.
Landino, Cristoforo,1424-1504.
Perotti, Niccolò,1430-1480.
Mancinelli, Antonio,1452-approximately 1505.
Grüninger, Johann,-1532?,printer.
Loll, A.,active 1650,former owner.StEdNL
[Strasbourg] : Opera & i[m]pensis sedulis q[uo]q[ue] laborib[us] prouidi viri Ioha[n]nis Reinhardi cognome[n]to Gürninger [sic] ciuis eiusde[m] vrbis arge[n]tinensis: q[ua]rto idus Marcij. absolutu[m] vero,
anno domini M.cccc.xcviij. [12 March 1498]
Includes an abridged version of the commentaries of Pomponius Porphyrio, Pseudo-Acro, Cristoforo Landino and Antonio Mancinelli, edited by Jakob Locher.
Includes a prefatory letter and poems by Locher and Tabula metrorum by Niccolo Perotti.
Imprint from colophon which reads: Elaboratum impressumq[ue] ... in celebri: libera: imperialiq[ue] vrbe Argentina. opera & i[m]pensis sedulis q[uo]q[ue] laborib[us] prouidi viri Ioha[n]nis Reinhardi cognome[n]to Gürninger [sic] ciuis eiusde[m] vrbis arge[n]tinensis: q[ua]rto idus Marcij. absolutu[m] vero Anno domini M.cccc.xcviij.
With 6 final leaves of index. There is a blank leaf after folio CCVII which is called for in the signatures. The woodcut illustrations include a 3-part block of an author seated at his desk (on the titlepage and repeated 9 times in text with the blocks in various combinations); 8 integral woodcuts (5 blocks, 3 repeated); and 147 illustrations assembled from combinations of 2-5 smaller blocks (many repeated). With a woodcut printer's device on LL7v.
Signatures: pi⁶ A-Z⁶ AA-II⁶ KK-LL⁸ (LL8 blank) chi⁶.
With marginal annotations, sometimes cropped.
ISTC
Goff
GW
BM 15th cent.,
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Ink inscription on recto of leaf pi2: A Loll 1650. Ink inscription on title page: I[?] Schaghen[?]. Acquired by the Advocates Library around 1720.
Late 18th-century calf with gilt stamped red leather spine label.
Lyric poetry
Germany Strasbourg.