Shelfmark
Fc.5.02
Author
Uniform title
[Works]
Title
Q. Horatij Flacci Opera cu[m] com[m]e[n]tariis. Ode quide[m]: carme[n] epodon & s[a]eculare: cu[m] docta Antonii Mancinelli: Et cu[m] familiari Iodoci Badii Asce[n]sii explanatio[n]e. Opus aut[em] de arte poetica cum eiusdem Ascensii commentariis: ac communi indice in fronte posito. Sermones vero et epistolae cum familiarissima eiusdem expositio[n]e & indice post calcem (ut seorsum ligari possint) collocato.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Venundantur Parrhisiis : in vico Diui Iacobi ab ipso Ascensio., M.D.XVI. [1516]
Physical description
[4], CXXX, LXXXIII leaves ; Fo.
Note
Woodcut on title-page: earliest known representation of a printing press. Includes printer's device.
Note
Title in woodcut frame, including armour trophies, medallions and mythological creatures.
Note
Colophon: "Impressa est tertium hæc Horatiana poesis accuratione ipsius Asce[n]sii in nobilisimo Parrhisiorum gymnasio: ad quartum kalen. Iulias. Anni huius. M.D.XVI.".
Note
Includes indexes.
Note
Woodcut criblé initials; printed marginalia.
Note
Main body of text in double coloumns.
Citation/references note
Adams H862
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Provenance
T.p. ownership inscription: "Liber Edw. Jones" followed by "John Jones" and "Edw. Jones".
Binding
Contemporary English brown calf; blind tooled, with central panel of lozenges with large stamp ornament (see Oldham, English Blind Stamped Books, no. 1007) and rolled frame (see Oldham, EBSB, roll 928); remains of clasps; wooden boards; blind tooled single fillet on spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooled letters; three raised bands.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmarks: Fc.5.3 and Fb.2.12.
Subject
Added entry--name
Badius, Josse, 1462 - 1535 printer.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Identifier
B28087