Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
23 March 1920
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/448
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    37/80 page 95
    Gight Books nrinted on Vellum. = LOT XLY. CICERO. DE OFFIcIIS; PARADOXA. Accedunt versus XI] Sapientum—Horatius Flaccus (Q.) Oda de brevitate humanaze vitae, PRINTED ON VELLUM, gothic letter, ong lines, 28 to a full page, 88 ll. (measures 92 by 6% in.), without marks, printed 1n black and red (iam, 5239 » Proctor, 82; Peliechet,.3/26},. four large painted initials in blue and red with decorative pen-work in purple, smaller initials aud paragraph marks in red and blue, eighteenth century calf, gilt back sm. folio. [Colophon, in ved] Presens Marci 1ulij clarissimit opus. Fo-[hannes fust Mogiitinus ciuis... manu Petri de gernsshem| pueri mei feliciter effeci finitum. Anno. M.j.ccce.lxvi. quarta die mensis februarit. Mainz, F. Fust & P. Schoffer, + Feb. 1466 *, This copy, while agreeing in general with the edition of 1466 has eight sheets (=16 leaves) with the characteristic readings of the edition of 1465. The leaves in question are 10, 15, 42, 43, 46-7, 51, 54, 73-4-5, 78-9, 80, 84-5. It seems certain that the sheets were made up before the book was rubricated, and probably it was done in Schoffer’s printing house. The examination of four other copies of the 1466 edition reveals no trace of a similar composition, so it is probably a peculiarity in this copy. |SééoP UATE: 24.)
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