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July 1983
Pageant Book, NYC
$7.50
Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (65-8 BC).
Opera (Ed + Comm: Christophorus Landinus)
See #434 Florence: Antonio di Bartolommea Miscomini, 5 Aug. 1482
Ref: Goff H447 HCR8881 BMC VI 637 folio
Cop: HEHL, Harv CL Carminum LI. Tertius
AD ASTERIEM C
272 leaves, 2-270 numbered I-CCLXIIII
3 col. in table of works, 2 col. in evota. 451. of commentary
surrounding text, + headline 117(187)x129mm.
Types: 112 R; 79R; Gk Capital spaces with guide letters
Horace - celebrated Roman poet, b. Verosa, contemporary +
friend of Virgil. THere are extant 121 lyric poems
(Odes, Epodes + Carmen sacculare) + 41 verse essays
(Sartirer, cometimes called Sermons; Epistles + Ars
poetica (single longest composition - a work of literary
criticism) Bante in his Divine Comedy lists him
3rd among poets after Homer + Virgil. Many of the
Odes are poems of love + wine and friendship, stressing,
the inevitablility of death + the need to enjoy life while one
can (as expressed in Horace's well known phrase
"carpe diem.")
Type 112 R text type, regular + open. Seperate Q with medium tail, t with
peculier angular foot swelling out slightly to left.
79 R small narrow text type. In use 1482, 84.
Gk lower case only, without accents or breathings, clear + round
in use 1482, 89.
HEHL leaf 100 Ad Asteriem Cicerso to CI recto
then Ad Macenatum Ode VIII
Dicolos
Crecto - end of Romanos Hortatus ad recte
vivenden. Ode. (3 leaves)
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