Pauli [sic] Flacci Persii poetae Satyrarum opus
Subtitle: Ioannis Brita[n]nici Brixiani commentarii: in Persium ad senatum populumque Brixianum. Bartolomeii Foncii in Persio commentarii
Publisher: Antonius de Gusago, for Octavianus Scotus
Published: 1497
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 50
Other titles: Pauli Flacci Persii poetae Satyrarum opus; Auli Flacci Persii poetae Satyrarum opus; Satyrarum opus; Ioan. Br. Persius. Bar. Fon.
Work titles: Works
Notes: Edited by Bartholomaeus Merula.

Colophon (leaf i3v): Impraessum Venetiis sumptu Nobilis Viri Domini Octauiani Scoti ciuis Modoetiensis: p[er] Magistrum Antonium de Gusago Brixie[n]sem Recognitum uero ac castigatum ab eruditissimo uiro Bartholomaeo Merula Ma[n]tuano. Regna[n]te inclyto ac foelicissimo Pri[n]cipe Augustino Barbadico. Anno Domini .i497. die .28. Septembris.

Signatures: a-g⁶ h-i⁴ (i4 blank).

Woodcut title-page ill. (Persius & the 2 commentators) with inserted letterpress captions: Ioan. Br. Persius. Bar. Fon.; publisher's device (Husung 199) on i3v; white-on-black floriated initials.

Text bordered by 62 lines of commentary.

Printed on sheets of "super-chancery"-size paper.

Hain-Copinger-Reichling, 12740

Proctor, 5631

Goff, P-358

Sander, 5564

Morgan, M.H. Persius, 44.

BM 15th cent., V, 577 (IB.24673)

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ip00358000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2733-2734

Gift; Morris H. Morgan; January 1910; Lp 15.4.97.

Gift; Mrs. E.D. Brandegee; 9 November 1908.

From the library of Morris H. Morgan, with his bookplate.

From the libraries of Sir John H. Thorold, with his Syston Park bookplate and monogram booklabel, and of Richard Ashhurst Bowie.

Imperfect: wormed along inner margin, affecting text.

Without rubrication.

Bound in modern half green morocco and marbled boards; blank leaf wanting.

Bound with: Titus Calpurnius Siculus, Bucolica (Bologna: Caligola de' Bazalieri, 1504).

Without rubrication.

A few contemporary MS annotations in Latin.

Bound in 19th-century burgundy straight-grain morocco, gilt, edges gilt, by R. Storr, Grantham; wanting the blank leaf.