[Rarebooks] FS: Spectacular facsimile of an 11th c. MS of Horace (once owned by Petrarch)

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(FACSIMILES) Horatius Flaccus, Quintus. OPERA [LATIN MS.]. (Rome: Regia Officina Polygraphia. 1933). ff.(144). Photo facsimile on treated vellum-like paper, in red & black, in double columns, of the original late 10th or early 11th century, once the property of Petrarch (in 1347) and now in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, in Florence (Plut. 1, 34). Bound in a faux medieval binding of full calf, blind tooled with 8 brass corners, 2 central ornaments, brass title frame and brass fore-edge clasps and catches. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies (#246). OFFERED WITH: The descriptive text booklet by Enrico Rostagno. L'ORAZIO LAURENZIANO GIA DI FRANCESCO PETRARCA. Rome: La Libreria Dallo Stato. (1933). 4to. 60,(2)pp. Stiff printed wrappers. Both facsimile manuscript and descriptive text housed together in the original publisher's folding case. Fine.     $1,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
One of the earliest extant manuscripts of Horace. Published 85 years ago, virtually all copies are in European and American libraries today.

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