Opera

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Title: Opera
Alternative Title: Works. 1487
Creator: Tacitus, Cornelius
Contributor: Zarotto, Antonio, printer.
Puteolanus, Franciscus, -1490.
Pillone, Antonio, -1533, former owner.
Pillone, Odorico, former owner.
Brooke, Thomas, Sir, 1830-1908, former owner.
Bazolle, Paolo Maresio, former owner.
Berès, Pierre, former owner.
Vecellio, Cesare, approximately 1521-1601, fore-edge painter.
Jonathan A. Hill, Inc., former owner.
Published / Created: ca. 1487]
Publication Place: Milan and Italy Milan
Publisher: Antonius Zarotus
Description: BEIN 2017 +313: Capital spaces with manuscript guide-letters. Capitals supplied in red or blue. Some Latin manuscript marginal notes. Contempory note on author and his times on front flyleaf.
BEIN 2017 +313: Provenance: 1. Antonio Pillone, 2. Odorico Pillone, 3. Venetian dealer Paolo Maresio Bazolle purchased from the Pillone family in 1874 and sold to 4. Sir Thomas Brooke (armorial bookplate) sold by his heirs in 1957 to 5. Pierre Berès (Bookplate: Libro no [in manuscript: 58] de la Bibliothèque Pillone, Pierre Berès). Acquired by the Beinecke Library from Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc.
BEIN 2017 +313: Binding: Contemporary Italian goatskin over wooden boards, blind-tooled by Belluno binder A (see Hobson tools 3, 7 and 10), 7 (of 10) bosses, 2 clasps and catches, vellum endleaves. Title lettered in ink on upper cover "iulii [cor.tacitus] agricolae vita." Fore-edge painting by Cesare Vecellio of Tacitus with his name abbreviated at bottom: COR T. See Hobson, A. "Pillone library." in Book collector, v. 7 (1958), 28-37.
BEIN Zi +5838 Copy 1: Book-plate of Augustus Frederick, duke of Sussex. A few manuscript notes in margins. Ff. 160 (c.sig.y10, blank), 175-176 (c.sigs.&⁷⁻⁸, &8 blank) and 188 (c.sig.B6, blank) wanting; the text of f. 175a has been supplied in manuscript on a sheet of paper pasted at the bottom of f. 174b. Slightly water-stained.
BEIN Zi +5838 Copy 2: Book-plate with the letters B and O in center. From the library of Dean Clarence W. Mendell. 27 cm. Ff. 1, 160 (c.sig.y10, blank), 176 (c.sig.&8, blank) and 188 (c.sig.B6, blank) wanting. Water-stained, worm-holes in the beginning; f. 2 mended. Old polished calf binding, stamped in gold.
Ff. 160 (c.sig.y10), 175 b (c.sig.&7), 176 (c.sig.&8), 187b (c.sig.B5) and 188 (c.sig.B6) blank.
The second, third, and fourth sheets of quire a are signed a¹⁻³, the rest of the quire being unsigned.
Capital spaces blank.
Hain gives no imprint or date; Proctor leaved the book undated; Copinger and Voullième (in the Bonn catalogue) ascribe the printing to Christophorus Valdarfer, between 1475 and 1480, but in the Berlin Catalogue Voullième names Zarotus as printer and omits the date; Castan and Brunet date the book between 1475 and 1480, but name no printer; Collijn dates the book at about 1490; The Brit. museum cat. dates the book about 1487.
Extent: 188 leaves ; 31 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

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Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: 2017 +313

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Object ID (OID): 33203836

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