Horatij flacci Venusini. Poete lirici Opera
Subtitle: cu[m] quibusdam annotat[i]o[n]ib[us]. Imaginibusq[ue] pulcherrimis. aptisq[ue] ad Odaru[m] conce[n]tus [et] sente[n]tias
Publisher: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger
Published: 1498
Place of publication: Strasbourg
Language: lat
Other titles: Horatii Flacci Venusini poetae lirici opera
Work titles: Works
Notes: Includes an abridged version of the commentaries of Pomponius Porphyrio, Pseudo-Acro, Cristoforo Landino and Antonio Mancinelli, edited by Jakob Locher.

Imprint from colophon.

Colophon (leaf LL7v): 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.

Signatures: pi⁶, A-Z⁶ AA-II⁶ KK-LL⁸(LL8 blank), chi⁶.

Many errors in foliation.

The woodcut ill. include: 3-part block of an author seated at his desk (on t.-p, repeated 9 times in text with the blocks in various combinations); 8 integral woodcuts (5 blocks, 3 repeated); and 147 ill. assembled from combinations of 2-5 smaller blocks (many repeated).

Woodcut printer's device (Weil p. 98) on LL7v.

Leaded text in single column with interlinear gloss, flanked by commentary in double columns, 74 lines per column.

Initial spaces, with guide-letters.

Printed on sheets of "chancery"-size paper.

Includes a prefatory letter and poems by Locher.

"Tabula metrorum" by Niccolò Perotti: leaves pi5r-pi6v.

Hain-Copinger, 8898*.

Proctor, 485.

Goff, H-461.

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel, 4240.

BM 15th cent., I, 112 (IB.1471).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ih00461000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 182-183.

Incunabula short title catalogue, ih00461000

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 13468

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, H-461

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain’s Repertorium bibliographicum, 8898*

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 4240

Schreiber, W.L. Handbuch der Holz- und Metallschnitte des XV. Jahrhunderts (3. Aufl.), 4240

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, 112 (IB.1473, IB. 1474)

Indice generale degli incunaboli delle biblioteche d'Italia, 4890

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, H-214

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge, 197

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library, 182, 183

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, H-370

Pellechet, M. Catalogue général des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France MS, 6101 (6081)

Hillard, D. Catalogues régionaux des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France. 6, Bibliothèque Mazarine, 1046

Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables, H-285

Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique, 1989

Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 485

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 8898*

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 4240

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, 112 (IB. 1473, IB. 1474)

Pellechet, M. Catalogue général des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France MS, 6101 (6081)

Hillard, D. Catalogues régionaux des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France. 6, Bibliothèque Mazarine, 1046

Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables, H-285

Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique, 1989