Quinti Horatii Flacci de arte poetica opusculum aureum
Subtitle: ab ascensio familiariter expositum
Contributors: Kerver, Thielmann, -1522, printer; Marnef, Jean de, active 1485-1510, bookseller; Marnef, Geoffroy de, active 1489-1518, bookseller; Marnef, Enguilbert de, active 1491-1535, bookseller; Petit, Jean, active 1492-1530, bookseller; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: Thielman Kerver, for E., J., and G. de Marnef and Jean Petit
Published: 1500
Place of publication: Paris
Language: lat
Subjects: Criticism; Early works to 1800; Aesthetics; Latin Epistolary poetry; Latin Didactic poetry; Poetics
Other titles: De arte poetica opusculum aureum; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: Ars poetica
Notes: Imprint derived from a1 recto (De Marnefs' device; "Venundatur parrhisiis Leone arge[n]teo et in Pellicano Regionis diui Iacobi") and colophon (f7 verso): Finis commentationis dilucidein Quinti horatii Flacci de arte poetica praeclarum sane opsuculum: impressume solertia Thielmann keruer in inclyto Parrhisioruz gymmnasio Ad idus maias Anni gratiae christianae, M.CCCCC, Deo laus et gloria.

Signatures: a-ćı d-éœ f́ı.

Chancery quarto; 39 lines plus headlines; printed marginalia; initial spaces without guide letters.

Includes index.

Boston Public Library. Catalogue of the Barton Collection, Misc., p. 283

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, H-467

Incunabula short title catalogue, ih00467000

Cataloged 20170329 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy quarterbound in ca. 19th-century calfskin and gray pulled paste. Deteriorated spine with red leather label. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown. Leaf dimensions: 197 x 133 mm. Early/contemporary marginalia on f2 verso. Acquired in May, 1873, with the purchase of the Barton Library.