Binding: Not bound. Other decoration, One leaf: Running headline ; faded red ink capitula supplied; marginal finding notes supplied. Layout, One leaf: Text block for commentary 177 x 218 mm includes inserted text block for Horace, verse dimensions vary (number of lines of verse varies), running headlines. Foliation printed at bottom. Watermarks, One leaf: Watermarks: None.
Former Owner(s):
Purchased by Karen Gould (1946-2012) from Pageant Book and Print Shop, New York. Gift of Lewis Gould to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in 2012 in his wife's memory.
Manuscript note: Horatius Flaccus, Quintus, Opera, with Commentary by Christophorus Landinus, ISTC Number ih00447000. http://istc.bl.uk/search/record.html?istc=ih00447000. One leaf: The text is from the commentary on the Odes of Horace Book IV, Ode 4, II. 17-43 by Cristoforo Landino (1424-1498). Landino studied Greek under George of Trebizond, belonged to Marsilio Facino's Platonic Academy , and was a teacher of Lorenzo de' Medici and his brother Giuliano. Printed by Antonio di Bartolommeo (also Bartolomeo) Miscomini in Florence, August 1482. Incipit, One leaf: quadruplici comparatione rem confirmat artificiosissimus poeta. Ostendit enim quod non magis. Explicit, One leaf: ILLE DIES. in quo victoria potitus est pulcher fuit fugatis tenebris ex latio in? devictis.
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