Claudiani Opera
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Claudiani Opera
Other titles: Opera
Classmark: BC Incunabula/CLA
Creator(s): Claudian (370-404)
Additional creator(s): Ugoleto, Taddeo (1448-1513) (Editor); Ugoleto, Angelo (1486-1501) (Printer); Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard (1787-1854) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Ugoleto, Taddeo; Ugoleto, Angelo; Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Impressa autem p[er] Angelum eius fratrem Parmæ; Angelus Ugoletus
Publication city: [Parma]
Date(s): Anno domini MCCCCLXXXIII. Nono Kalendas Maias. [23 April 1493]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [142] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/43168
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007741369705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-p⁸ q-t⁶.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on t6r reads: Opera Claudiani diligenter emendata per Thadæum Vgoletum Parmensem. Impressa autem p[er] Angelum eius fratrem Parmæ: Anno domini MCCCCLXXXXIII. Nono Kalendas Maias.
Edited by Thaddeus Ugoletus.
Printed with 36 long lines to a full page.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Printer's mark on t6v.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ic00702000.
Indexed in: GW 7060; Goff C702; BMC VIII 945; Pellechet 3802.
Features
Occasional marginal annotations in black ink manuscript, sixteenth-century.
Notes in black ink manuscript, nineteenth-century, on the verso of the front free endpaper giving bibliographic details of the edition.
Notes in black ink manuscript, twentieth-century, on the recto of the front flyleaf with details of the edition and transcription of the colophon.
Pencil manuscript notes on the verso of the back free endpaper: Perfect. (A little worming). Bernard Quaritch... F.S. Ferguson 14.iv.1925.
Some worm damage.
Bindings
Eighteenth-century binding of half calf and paper over pasteboard. The upper and lower covers have been surface-coated and sprinkled with black. On the smooth spine are two pared leather lettering pieces. The upper one is red and gold-tooled with the words: Claudian Opera. Beneath it is a pale brown lettering piece gold-tooled with the place and date: Parmæ 1493. The pastedowns are of marbled paper featuring the spot pattern in purple, orange, blue and black. The leaf edges are sprinkled blue. The spine and upper cover are loose at the joint. Size: 212 x 162mm. Leaf size: 201 x 150mm.
Provenance
Book label of Georgius Kloss, M.D. Francofurti ad Moenum on the front pastedown. Georg Kloss's library was disposed of by Sotheby's in 1835.
Round armorial bookplate on the front pastedown, the name partially rubbed out and now indecipherable. The device features a hand grasping a sword, encircled by a belt and buckle.
Small black and white armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the verso of the front free endpaper. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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