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[Opera].
Author
Virgil
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Uniform title
Works.
1470
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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
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Former owner
Sunderland, Charles Spencer, Earl of, 1674-1722
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Morgan, Junius Spencer
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Printer
Wendelin, of Speier, -1477?
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Rare books genre
Incunabula
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Italy
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Venice
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1470
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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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