Pauli Flacci Persii poetae Satyrarum opus : Ioannis Brita[n]nici Brixiani commentarii in Persium ad senatum populumque Brixianum, Bartolomeii Foncii in Persio commentarii.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Persius, author.
Uniform title:Works. 1497
Imprint:[Venice] : [Antonius de Gusago for Octavianus Scotus], [28 September 1497]
Description:49, [1] leaves ; 28 cm (folio)
Language:Latin
Subject:
Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's copy imperfect: lacking title page, replaced with facsimile digitally printed on laid paper; outer margin of many leaves damaged and repaired with rice paper, missing text supplied in manuscript.
University of Chicago Library's copy forms part of the Robert S. Connors Basic Program Collection.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11743539
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:Satyrarum opus
Other uniform titles:Merula, Bartholomaeus,
Britannico, Giovanni, active 15th century-16th century,
Fonte, Bartolommeo, 1445-1513,
Antonius, de Gusago, active 1497-1498,
Scotto, Ottaviano, -1498,
Britannico, Giovanni, active 15th century-16th century. Commentarii in Persium.
Fonte, Bartolommeo, 1445-1513. In Persium poetam explanatio.
Connors, Robert S.,
Robert S. Connors Basic Program Collection
Provenance:Former owners' manuscript annotations in at least 3 hands; underscoring; manicules; leaves 3-35, 37-46 foliated in pencil "2"-"34," "35"-"44"; annotations partially trimmed on edges.
Binding: Limp music manuscript waste; evidence of leather ties; partial leaf from a gradual with 4-line staves with black square notation, clef line in red, includes the gradual "Ecce quam bonum" and the beginning of the first verse "Sicut unguentum," with one red initial and one blue initial with red pen-flourishing.
Notes:Edited by Bartholomaeus Merula.
Colophon: Impraessum Venetiis sumptu nobilis viri Domini Octauiani Scoti ciuis Modoetiensis p[er] magistrum Antonium de Gusago Brixie[n]sem recognitum uero ac castigatum ab eruditissimo uiro Bartholomaeo Merula Ma[n]tuano. Regna[n]te inclyto ac foelicissimo pri[n]cipe Augustino Barbadico. Anno Domini 1497 die 28 Septembris.
"A close reprint of Tacuinus's 1494/5 edition"--Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.
Signatures: a-g⁶ h-i⁴.
62 lines; types (from BMC), 106R, 80R; capital spaces with guide letters; woodcut initials; woodcut title page illustration of Persius, Giovanni Britannico, & Bartolommeo Fonte; woodcut device of Ottaviano Scotto at end.
Printed on sheets of "super-chancery" size paper.
Last leaf blank.
Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ip00358000
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry M31411
Reichling, D. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 12740
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry P-358
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, page 577 (IB. 24673)
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 5631
Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library, entries 2733, 2734
Morgan, M.H. Bibliography of Persius, entry 44
Sander, M. Livre à figures italien depuis 1467 jusqu'à 1530, entry 5564

Special Collections, Incunabula

Loading map link
Holdings details from Special Collections, Incunabula
Call Number: alc Incun 1497.P4
c.1 Available Loan period: Special Collections Reading Room use only  Request from SCRC Need help? - Ask SCRC or Request Scans