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HORATIUS Flaccus, Quintus

Horatius cum quinque commentis. Quin. Horatii Flacci Poemata omnia, commentantibus Antonio Mancinello, Acrone, Porphyrione, Ioanne Britanico, necnon & Iodoco Badio Ascensio [...]
Venice
Giovanni Tacuino da Trino
1536, July
€380 - €500

Folio: [6]-CCXCVI [= 296] ff. Title printed in red and black within ornamental woodcut border. Small title-vignette, ill. with 12 woodcuts. Printed in 2 cols with Horace's texts in larger type. Beautiful woodcut initials. (cut short occasionally shaving headlines or printed marginalia, some toning, soiling and dampstaining, bottom corner of final f. torn off with loss of a few letters, sm. holes in final f.). Contemp. limp vellum, flat spine titled in ink, vellum ties (sl. soiled, ties partly gone). Good copy

Venetian ed. of Horace, mainly based on the editions by Jodocus Badius (1st 1503). With Badius' letter to archbishop François de Rohan, dated 5 October 1519. Ref. Edit16 22697. - Renouard (Badius) II:512:10. - Not in Adams. Prov. Old names (on title and elsewhere). Old scribbling and sm. drawings on final blank page and elsewhere (some in Spanish)

Humanism