Author: HORATIUS.
Title: Ex fide atque auctoritate decem librorum manuscriptorum, opera Dionysii Lambini Monstroliensis emendatus: ab eodemque Commentariis copiosiss.illustratus. His adiecimus Io.Michaelis Bruti in quatuor libros Carminum, atque in librum Epodon explicationes.
Description: Venice, apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi F, 1566. L-8vo. (19, 6x14cm). [viii], 242, [12 index] leaves. With Aldus' printer's device. Parchment with morocco title-piece. (corners slightly bumped; hole in parchment of back cover; some bottom margins thumbed, some spots. Old (contemporary?) annotations, mainly concerning metre. Some of these annotations trimmed in the margin. 19th century annotation on fly-leaf) ¶ Reprint of the Lyon edition of 1561. "Beigefügt sind Brutus Noten." (Schweiger II/396). Adams H911. Extensive note on flyleaf, signed Charles Coquerel, 1820. "Cet Horace du fils d'Aldus contient la celebre preface de Lambinus a Charles IX." The annotator reminds of the role Charles IX played in St Bartholomew's Night, and the murder of Petrus Ramus, friend of Lambin. Lambin is said to have died out of grief for his the death of his friend. "Gravesque principium amicitias.." ¶ Renouard p.201/16

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