• Liber Poetrie ; [Satirae].

Extent:
  • 55 leaves : paper ; 294 x 208 (165-170 x 108-112) mm bound to 302 x 220 mm.
Date:
  • 1450-1500
Language:
Author:
  • Horace
Abstract:
  • Horace's Ars poetics and books I-II of Satirae.
Contents:
  • 1. fol. 1r-10v: Liber Poetrie. Horace's Ars poetica.
  • 2. fol. 12r-55v: [Satirae]. Book I-II of Horace's satirical poems.
Description:
  • Incipit: [Liber Poetrie] “Quinti Oracii Flacci Liber Poetrie Incipit. [H]umano capiti ceruicem pictor equinam, Iungere si uelit et varias inducere plumas…” -- [Satirae] “Quinti oracii flacci sermonum liber primus. [Q]ui fit mecenas ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit seu fors obiecerat illa…”
  • Explicit: [Liber Poetrie] “Quem vere arripuit tenet occiditque legendo, Non missura cutem nisi plena cruoris hirudo.” -- [Satirae] “Vt nihil omnino gustaremus velut illis, Canidia afflasset peior serpentibus affris. Finit.”
  • Ms. composite codex.
  • Title from incipit of first work (fol. 1r)
  • Interlinear and marginal annotations. Manicules (fol. 14v, 15r, etc.). A small circular embossed Princeton University Library property stamp on fol. 1r. "Horatius" stamped in gold on spine. Princeton University call number label and bookplate (upper flyleaf).
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. iii (modern paper) + 55 + iii (modern paper) ; catchword (fol. 23v) ; modern foliation in pencil.
  • Layout: 24 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
  • Description: Watermarks (gothic letter P with quatrefoil)
  • Decoration: Zoomorphic? initial in brown (fol. 15r).
  • Origin: Germany or low countries? in the second half of the 15th century.
Binding note:
  • Later binding. United States, late 19th century. Bound by H.W. Fisher & Co. of Philadelphia. Half golden-brown morocco and marbled paper over pasteboard. Gold-tooled lined along leather on covers and gold stamps on spine. Marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Endbands.
Provenance:
  • Intermediate provenance unknown. Donated by Robert W. Patterson, Class of 1876 to the Princeton University Library in 1911.
Contributor:
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 32.
References:
  • Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 105-206.
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