NYPL Spencer 048, Carmina...
NYPL Spencer 048, Carmina...
New York, New York Public Library, Spencer Collection, NYPL Spencer 048. Text(s): Carmina, Q. Horatii Flacci Venusini Carminum Liber I ad Mecaenatem hominum scribit officia pracmatice monocolos., Epodes, Carmen saeculare, Ars Poetica, Epistolae, Sermones. Description: ff. ii + 149 + ii - Early 19th century full purple morocco, gilt; doublures gilt tooled border with white inlaid central panel. By C. Lewis. - Probably for Gioachino Torriani (1416/7-1500), General of the Dominican Order. William Horatio Crawford at Lakelands, co. Cork; sale, Sotheby, 12 March 1891, lot 1620. Bought for the Spencer Collection, NYPL, from Dr. Erwin Rosenthal, 1944. - De Ricci, Supplement, 333. A.C. de la Mare, "The Florentine Scribes of Cardinal Giovanni of Aragon," Il Libro e il Testo(Urbino, 1984), 287 (no. 11). - Jonathan J. G. Alexander, James H. Marrow and Lucy Freeman Sandler, The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the New York Public Library(London / Turnhout: The New York Public Library / Harvey Miller Publishers, 2005) n. 80. Part 1: ff. 1-149v. Description: - Parchment - 300 x 190 mm - 28 long lines per page, ruled in drypoint. Occasional prickmarks visible. Quire signatures visible. Collation: 14 quires of ten folios each, followed by one of nine folios.
