Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Opera.
Venice: Filippo di Pietro, 18 Sept. 1479.
Fol. a-o8 p6. [118] leaves (a1 blank).
ISTC ih00444000; GW 13455; Goff H444; BMC XII 15 (IB. 20170); Bod-inc H-202; CIBN H-274.
| GIP number: | H38 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bh3-e.14 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | University of Glasgow: source unknown; shelfmark “T.1.24” on University Library bookplate matching entry in A. Arthur, Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis (Glasguae: 1791). |
| Binding: | 18th-century calf, undecorated; gilt bands on spine; leather spine title now lost; sprinkled red-edged leaves. Size: 299 x 209 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 292 x 198 mm. |
| Annotations: | Copious 16th-century marginal notes in brown ink on the opening pages of De arte poetica (h3v-h4r); a few marginal and interlinear annotations in a different hand with underlining in black ink on e1 and on e2r; running heading on rectos and versos of n1r-n5r “Epistolarum || liber primus” (“Epistolarum liber I” on n1r); on a1r is a large calligraphic initial “I”(?) besides which (in the same hand) is an annotation made up of four small minims; early inscription partially visible on the blank page p6v - unread because the page, which has large tears, has been mounted onto a blank leaf. |
| Decoration: | Four-line initial “M” on a2r supplied in red and blue with reserved white and decorated with red and black pen-work; similarly decorated initials on b8r, c8v, e8r, f8v, h2v, i2v, l1r, m8v, o7r; other initials and paragraph marks supplied in red or blue throughout. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
