Creator
Flaccus, Quintus Horatius.
Title
Opera.
Coverage
Venice
Publisher
Aldus Manutius
Date
May 1501.
Description
The second book printed in Aldus’s Portable Library series. This copy of Horace’s works is bound in contemporary brown goatskin for Mino Rossi (1451–1503), a Bolognese senator who served his city at one time or another as its ambassador to the Holy See, Milan, and the King of France. The book is illuminated throughout. The opening of the text of Horace’s Odes is richly gilt and illuminated, with the arms of the Rossi family at the foot.
Source
From the collection of T. Kimball Brooker.