Q. Horatius Flaccus: cum commentariis & enarrationibus commentatoris veteris, et Jacobi Cruquii Messenii . Accesserunt, Jani Dousae Nordovicis in eundem commentariolus, unà cum Succidaneâ appendice ad superiorem commentariolum. Item auctarium commentatoris veteris à Cruquio editi Cruquius, Jacobus, Janus Dousa, [et al.] Classical Literature,Poetry

4to, pp. [16], 695, [17]; collating: *?, **4 A-Z?, a-3u?; printer's woodcut device on title page; woodcut initials; text in double column; contemporary full limp parchment with extensive ink notation on upper cover and titling on spine; early ownership inscription at the bottom of the title page of Zanius Dacier dated 1602. The cover notes quote Martin Marie Charles de Boudens Vanderbourg who edited an edition of Horace in 1812, so this quote likely dates to after 1812. The complete annotated Horace by the humanist Cruquius (1520-1584) who was Latin schoolmaster at Bruges. The 'commentator vetus' (known as Commentator Cruquianus) "is a collection of scholia, published by Cruquius from various mss., notably the four codices blandinii, which were destroyed by fire in 1566 with the Benedictine abbey Blandigny near Ghent" (OCLC). "'Cruquius,' says Dr. Harwood, 'is deservedly esteemed one of the best commentators on Horace. Consult the notes in these editions on any of the difficult passages in Horace, and you will have your doubts satisfactorily solved.' Barthius and Tanaquil Faber think but slightly of Cruquius: they observe, and in this observation Mitscherlich seems to concur, that he has performed little more than the old commentators, Acro and Porphyrio. Harles thinks that Cruquius is not equal to Lambinus in research, ingenuity, and general critical knowledge: yet Baxter has not scrupled to call Lambinus, Cruquius and Torrentius, the 'tria Horatii lumina'" (Dibdin). Adams H-946; Dibdin, Greek and Latin Classics (4th ed.), II, 96; Graesse III, 352; Mills College Check List 250; Riedel-Horatiana A-61.