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ANCIENT CLASSICS. [Venice; 1479.
263. Horatius. Opera Omnia. Printed hy
Philip Conda Petri. Venice. 1479. Folio.
On the recto of the first leaf, sign. a. *2, we read the following title
and commencement of the first Ode.
Q VINTI HORATII FLACCI VENVSTINI*
CARMINVM LIBER PRIMVS AD MECO
ENATEM
m Ecoenas Atauis edite regibus:
O 8c prtesidium 8c dulce decus meu.
Sut quos curriculo puluere olympicu
Collegisse iuuat: msetaque feruidis
E uitata rotjs palmaque nobilis
T errarum dominos euehit ad deos.
8cc. 8cc. 8cc.
The signatures run in eights ; and the fourth leaf of every signature
is uniformly designated by q: the signatures have also another pecu-
liarity of being introduced at the end of the last line. The last signa-
ture, p, has only six leaves : the irnpression terminating on the recto
of the sixth leaf of it, thus :
F I N I S .:.
Horatii opere finis cu magna diligentia. Impssu
Per philippu^; conda petri I ueneciis ducate Ioae
mozenico Iclito duce M cccc lxxviiii die xviii
septembris.
The register is beneath. De Bure, Bibliogr. Instruct. vol. iii. p. 316,
says this edition differs only in the subscription, from the preceding
one, of the date of 1478, by the same printer. The present, by being
a fine copy, affords a good specimen of the press of this ingenious
artist. It is however quite evident—from the extract given in this
and the preceding article — that this latter edition is a thorough
* Sic.
ANCIENT CLASSICS. [Venice; 1479.
263. Horatius. Opera Omnia. Printed hy
Philip Conda Petri. Venice. 1479. Folio.
On the recto of the first leaf, sign. a. *2, we read the following title
and commencement of the first Ode.
Q VINTI HORATII FLACCI VENVSTINI*
CARMINVM LIBER PRIMVS AD MECO
ENATEM
m Ecoenas Atauis edite regibus:
O 8c prtesidium 8c dulce decus meu.
Sut quos curriculo puluere olympicu
Collegisse iuuat: msetaque feruidis
E uitata rotjs palmaque nobilis
T errarum dominos euehit ad deos.
8cc. 8cc. 8cc.
The signatures run in eights ; and the fourth leaf of every signature
is uniformly designated by q: the signatures have also another pecu-
liarity of being introduced at the end of the last line. The last signa-
ture, p, has only six leaves : the irnpression terminating on the recto
of the sixth leaf of it, thus :
F I N I S .:.
Horatii opere finis cu magna diligentia. Impssu
Per philippu^; conda petri I ueneciis ducate Ioae
mozenico Iclito duce M cccc lxxviiii die xviii
septembris.
The register is beneath. De Bure, Bibliogr. Instruct. vol. iii. p. 316,
says this edition differs only in the subscription, from the preceding
one, of the date of 1478, by the same printer. The present, by being
a fine copy, affords a good specimen of the press of this ingenious
artist. It is however quite evident—from the extract given in this
and the preceding article — that this latter edition is a thorough
* Sic.