[Opera].

Author
Virgil [Browse]
Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
Latin
Published/​Created
Venice : Vindelinus de Spira, 1470.
Description
161 leaves (the last two blank) ; 33 cm. (fol.)

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Special Collections - Rare Books 2945.1470q Oversize Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Notes
    • New York Times, Sept. 30, 1891, p. 9, records John Pierce, NY bookseller, purchased this lot at Ives auction for $3000 and subsequently sold it to Junius Spencer Morgan.
    • Gathering: [16]
    • No. of lines varies; type 1 (cf. Haebler); printed in black.
    • Leaf 1a: Publii Virgilii maronis bucolicorum Liber incipit: Aegloga prima Tityrus & melibeus: Titye tu pauvlae recubans sub tegmine fagi Siluestrem tenui musam meditaris auena. Ends, leaf 161b, l. 11: .M.CCCC.LXX.
    • First dated edition; printed on parchment.
    • VRG copy has initials and decorations illuminated red, blue, green and gold.
    Binding note
    VRG copy in later red goatskin with French fillet and outer dentelles in gold; marbled endpapers; in dark blue goatskin pull-off case.
    Provenance
    • VRG copy is from the Sunderland Library.
    • VRG copy has booklabels of Brayton Ives., no. 1028, and Junius Spencer Morgan.
    References
    • Goff V-150
    • BM 15th cent., V, p. 154 (IB.19525b)
    • Copinger 6003
    • Sunderland, C. S. Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana 13041
    • Ives, B. Catalogue of the collection of books and manuscripts belonging to Mr. Brayton Ives no. 1028 (p. 292-293, with illustration of title page)
    Place name(s)
    Italy Venice,
    Other title(s)
    • Aeneis.
    • Bucolica.
    • Georgica.
    OCLC
    270653067
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