Fastorum
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Fastorum
Other titles: Fasti
Classmark: BC Incunabula/OVI
Creator(s): Ovid
Additional creator(s): Marsi, Paolo (1440-1484) (Commentator); Zani, Troilus (1492-1493) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Marsi, Paolo; Zani, Troilus; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: per T.Z.P. [i.e. Troilus Zani, presbyter]; T.Z.P. [Troilus Zani, Presbyter, partner of Petrus de Quarengiis, Bergomensis]
Publication city: Venetiis [Venice]
Date(s): Mcccclxxxxii. die xxvii. octobris. [27 October 1492]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [168] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/60776
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007776759705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-b⁸ c-z⁶ [&]⁶ [con]⁶ [rum]⁶ A⁸.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on A8v reads: Venetiis per. T.Z.P. Mcccclxxxxii. die xxvii. octobris.
Title from the head of a3r.
Printer identified by BMC as Troilus Zani, Presbyter. GW identifies him as T. Zani de Portesio. Except for this work, all his printing in Venice was with Petrus de Quarengiis.
Ovid's verses are surrounded by the commentary of Paulus Marsus (BMC lists Petrus Marsus, his brother).
Reprinted from the edition of De Battibovis, 1485, which has the same number of leaves and in parts the same page contents - BMC VII 1141.
Printed with 60 long lines to a page plus headline.
The register erroneously gives quire b as a ternion instead of a quaternion.
Printer's mark beneath the colophon on A8v with the monogram TZ.
Initial spaces, some with guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. io00174000.
Indexed in: Hain 12242; Goff O174.
Features
On the front pastedown is a drawing in black ink manuscript of a circular calendar, late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century, partly obscured by a label.
Occasional marginal annotations in black ink manuscript, fifteenth- to seventeenth-century.
Manicule in black ink manuscript on a4r.
The major initial on a3r is supplied in black.
Some headlines and headings are highlighted in yellow.
The printer's mark on A8v is highlighted in yellow.
At the head of leaf a1r are three similar ink manuscript ornaments, possibly monograms.
Bindings
Binding of bevelled wooden boards rebacked with brown pigskin. The spine has four raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Ovid Fastorum. Gold-tooled at the base of the spine are the place and date: Venice 1492. In the fourth panel is the Brotherton Collection stamp in gold. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a line of stylised foliage where the pigskin meets the oak boards. Size: 322 x 220mm. Leaf size: 312 x 210mm.
Provenance
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the recto of the front free endpaper. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
Access and usage
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