HORATIUS.

(Opera) cum quattor commentarijs.

      Venice, Philippus Pincius for Benedictus Fontana, 1495-1496, 16 February. Folio. Contemporary vellum over wooden boards, sides richly blind tooled in panel design, comprising in inner panel 2 naked male and female figures, with brass protective strips and 2 brass clasps. With fine large woodcut printer's device on recto of last leaf, and numerous large and smaller white flowered woodcut initials. (264) lvs. Bound with: PERSIUS. (Opera) cum tribus commentariis. Venice, Giovanni Tacuino de Tridino, 1499, 4 November. With white geometric woodcut printer's device on verso of penultimate leaf, and fine woodcut on title, showing the author lecturing, flanked by his commentators working at their desks. (64) lvs.- JUVENALIS. (Opera) cum commento Ioannus Britannici. Reggio Emilia, Francesco de Mazalibus, 1503. With woodcut, showing a satyr shaking a book at scholars and chasing them out of town, at the head of text, and with some white flowered woodcut initials. (143) lvs. Superb Humanist "Sammelband" with the collected works of three classical authors, in a fine contemporary Strasbourg binding, cf. Krisby 147. The three works also are typographical harmonious, with text in a well-sized Roman type, surrounded on three sides by the commentaries printed in a more compact smaller type, in the first and third work including fine Greek types. For Horace these are the 5th century pseudo-Acron scholia and the commentaries by the 3rd century scholar Porphyrion, and by two 15th century humanists: Christophoro Landino and Antonio Mancinelli. The Persius appears here for the first time with the notes by the three 15th century Italians: Giovanni Britannico, Bartelomeo Fonti, and Giovanni Bonardi. The present Reggio Emilia imprint of the Juvenal is the second edition only of Britannico's commentary, and is so rare that it was unknown to Schweiger. Splendid copy, from the library of the Fürstenberg family.- (18th century ms. paper title-label on spine; ms. titles on foredge; 2 bifolia sl. foxed). Ad 1: BMC V, 496; Goff H 458; Hain-Copinger 8893*; Polain 1988; IGI 4889; Proctor 5306; Oates 2072; Schweiger I, 389; ad 2: BMC VII, 1209 (dating it 1507); Goff P 362; Hain-Copinger 12744*; Proctor 5460; Sander 5565; Essling 796; Schweiger II, 706; ad 3: STC Italian p. 364; Sander 3732; Essling 787 & reproduction II, 235; not in Schweiger.