No. Way. Those photos are just astounding. I'm looking forward to taking this all in! And trying to imagine owning a very nicely bound mid-sixteenth century edition of Horace...!
Loved this. Musicologist here—but knowledge situated too early to answer the q about the music. I’d probably check it’s not a tune from the various 16thC Horace settings that were made for school purposes. I think the Giselbrecht article here https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.70054 might be useful.
Ha! I always thought Odes, 1.5 a bit overrated myself (loveliness of Milton’s version notwithstanding); perhaps I’ll adjust my Loeb Horace similarly! Thanks for letting us have a look at Francis’ beautiful and fascinating book.
What an extraordinary book, absolutely beautiful, and so is the pen and ink handwriting of the annotator! I loved seeing these photographs. A treasure and a family heirloom indeed.
What a delight! Enjoyed this so much. Was slightly astonished to see that ”working” copies of books for schoolchildren was already a thing. Had assumed that books were too expensive — too much a high-end consumer item, so to speak — at that point still. Totally ageeed about the likely age of the second Francis 😊. It was a bit magical, reading this, to follow in someone's traces as they work their way through a text for the first time, across all of the years since.
I love this journey through young Francis’ study of Horace. One thing struck me personally was the singing part. When I was in college reading Horace, my professor Palmer Bovie one time sang for us a beautiful rendition of one of the poems. I wish I could remember which poem it was, but I was struck by his voice and his ability to sing Horace a cappella. It was beautiful to listen to.
No. Way. Those photos are just astounding. I'm looking forward to taking this all in! And trying to imagine owning a very nicely bound mid-sixteenth century edition of Horace...!
Loved this. Musicologist here—but knowledge situated too early to answer the q about the music. I’d probably check it’s not a tune from the various 16thC Horace settings that were made for school purposes. I think the Giselbrecht article here https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.70054 might be useful.
Ha! I always thought Odes, 1.5 a bit overrated myself (loveliness of Milton’s version notwithstanding); perhaps I’ll adjust my Loeb Horace similarly! Thanks for letting us have a look at Francis’ beautiful and fascinating book.
What an extraordinary book, absolutely beautiful, and so is the pen and ink handwriting of the annotator! I loved seeing these photographs. A treasure and a family heirloom indeed.
Congratulations on this great find!
What a delight! Enjoyed this so much. Was slightly astonished to see that ”working” copies of books for schoolchildren was already a thing. Had assumed that books were too expensive — too much a high-end consumer item, so to speak — at that point still. Totally ageeed about the likely age of the second Francis 😊. It was a bit magical, reading this, to follow in someone's traces as they work their way through a text for the first time, across all of the years since.
I love this journey through young Francis’ study of Horace. One thing struck me personally was the singing part. When I was in college reading Horace, my professor Palmer Bovie one time sang for us a beautiful rendition of one of the poems. I wish I could remember which poem it was, but I was struck by his voice and his ability to sing Horace a cappella. It was beautiful to listen to.