Acronis commentatoris egregii in Quinti Horatii Flacci Venusini opera expositio incipit
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Type of record: Book
Title: Acronis commentatoris egregii in Quinti Horatii Flacci Venusini opera expositio incipit
Other titles: Commentaria in Horatii opera
Classmark: BC Incunabula/ACR
Creator(s): Pseudo-Acro
Additional creator(s): Zarotto, Antonio (Printer); Firmin-Didot, Ambroise (1790-1876) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Horace; Zarotto, Antonio; Firmin-Didot, Ambroise; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: per Antonium Zarothum par mensem Mediolani impressa; Antonius Zarotus
Publication city: [Milan]
Date(s): MCCCCLXXIIII. Idibus sextilibus. [13 August 1474]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [147] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/37052
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007723779705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on leaf [148r] reads: Acronis Viri q[uam] doctissimi Commentatoria diligenter emendata in Q[uinti] Horatii Flacci Opera per Antonium Zarothum par mensem Mediolani impressa MCCCCLXXIIII. Idibus sextilibus.
Issued to accompany Zarotus' edition of Horace, Milan, 16 March 1474.
Printed with 33 long lines to a full page.
No signatures, foliation or catchwords.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ih00446000.
Indexed in: Hain. Repertorium (with Copinger's Supplement) 8876 (2); BMC VI 711 (IB. 25939); Goff. Third census, H-446 (II).
Features
Major initials supplied alternately in red and blue.
Bindings
Eighteenth-century binding of full red goatskin over thick pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are gold-tooled with a border of three sets of double fillets containing a dentelle design. In the centre of each cover is a gold-tooled lozenge-shaped ornament. The spine has six raised bands and gold-tooled panels containing a design of lozenges and flowers. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Acro in Horatium. Gold-tooled in the third panel are the place and date: Mediol. 1474. The pastedowns are of red marbled paper featuring a combination of curl and comb patterns in red, orange, blue and cream. The board edges and the turn-ins are gold-tooled with a repeating pattern of stylised foliage and the book has gilt edges. There are losses to the head and tail of the spine. Size: 295 x 218mm. Leaf size: 279 x 202mm.
Provenance
Ink manuscript inscription at the top of the first leaf, washed and now indistinct, possibly reading Collegi [...] 1605 [...]
Book label of Ambroise Firmin Didot (1790-1876) on the front pastedown, dated 1850.
Indistinct autograph in ink manuscript at the top right of the recto of the first leaf, possibly reading Geo. Webber.
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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Profile: Ambroise Firmin-Didot 1790-1876
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