COLLECTION NAME:
Early Printing Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL233101575
Reference Number:
3300.1
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Inscription on flyleaf
Parent Work Title:
Quinti Horatii Flacci Venusini Carmiunm Liber Primus Ad Mecœnatem..
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Works. 1474
Creator:
Bridges, John, 1666-1724
Creator Role:
Inscriber
Date Created:
17th century [late]
Page/Sheet:
Flyleaf
Description:
Vellum fly-leaf bound-in before leaf [a1], containing manuscript inscription in an early hand on the recto: "Oda grece Latine cantus"; and a very late seventeenth-century manuscript inscription on the verso: "Fol°. num°. 45. Hanc seu primaria[m] seu proxima[m] Horatii Operum editione[m], e raro aut unaquam antea visam comparabam pretio 14 aureoru[m] in auctione quorundu[m] libroru[m] facta in aedibus vulgo vocat Toms Coffeehouse Luddi Portae continguis, mense Februar A.D. MDCXCIX-DCC. Libros vero ab Italia[m] aliisq[ue] partibus enteris corrasit e huc ad veti[?] curavit Dr. Gherrard. J Bridges φιλαεχαιος ουν ωφελειας και ήδονης [philaechaios oun ōpheleias kai hēdonēs]". This inscription, beginning with a sale or inventory code, was written by John Bridges (1666-1724), antiquarian and lawyer of Lincoln's Inn, who purchased the book at an auction held at Tom's Coffee House in London for 14 crowns, the book having been acquired abroad by one "Dr Sherrard", possibly the botanist William Sherard (1659-1728). Bridges' library was sold in London, from 7 February 1725/26. Lot 701 in Bridges sale catalogue 'Bibliothecae Bridgesianae catalogus' (London, 1725 [i.e. 1726]), p. 28.
Language:
Latin
Language:
Greek
Subject:
Books--Provenance
Category of Material:
Printed
Sub-Category:
Inscriptions
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Item Height:
265 mm
Item Width:
200 mm
Provenance:
Sherard, William, 1659-1728, former owner
Provenance:
Bridges, John, 1666-1724, former owner
Provenance:
Reviczky von Revisnye, Karl Emerich Alexander, Graf von, 1737-1793, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
Educational Notes:
Incunabula Cataloguing Project (Provenance), 2021-2025
Academic Project Lead:
Julianne Simpson
Academic Project Lead:
John Gandy
Academic Project Lead:
Ed Potten
JRL233101575
