Folio (31 x 21 cm), [158] ff, collation: a-c8 d-e6 f-s8 t-x6. Elegiae (Comm: Bernardinus Cyllenius Veronensis). Add: Catullus: Carmina (Comm: Antonius Parthenius). Propertius: Elegiae (Comm: Philippus Beroaldus). Roman type, with decorative woodcut initials on black background. Printer's device and 'Registrum' on last text page. Complete with final blank. Condition: small stamp on f. a1, hole (ca. 3,5 cm in f. a1), corner cut from f. h8, some pale marginal damp staining, corner cut from f. x5. Contemporary binding with wooden boards, leather spine, two beautiful shell-shaped clasps on lower board, one hinge broken, other hinge fragile The vellum end-leaves are fine manuscript cuttings from an Italian Atlantic Bible, first half of the 12th century
Ref. ISTC it00372000 ; Goff T372; HC 4763 ; GW M47024 ; BMC V, 439. The three prominent Latin poets Sextus Propertius (c.50 BC - 15 BC), Albius Tibullus (c.55 BC - 19 BC) and Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.84 BC - c.54 BC) are famous for their elegies. While Catullus was a poet of the Republican period, Propertius and Tibullus flourished in the Augustan age and Propertius enjoyed the patronage of Maecenas and through him of the Emperor Augustus himself. Scarce third edition with the commentary of Antonius Parthenius Lacisius, which had first been published in Brescia in 1485, and then reprinted in Venice in 1487. The commentary on TIBULLUS is by Bernardinus Veronensis (also found in the 1487 edition), and the commentary on PROPERTIUS is by Philippus Beroaldus (not in the 1485 or 1487 printing)
