Details

Notes

• Title and imprint from Goff.
• Sig.: a⁶, b-d⁵, e⁴, f⁶, g-h⁵, j-u⁵, no catchwords.
• 32 lines to a page; type 2 (cf. Haebler); printed in black.
• Leaf [1a]: Publii Virgilii maronis mantuani uatis clarissimi Bucolica & Aegloga prima fœliciter incipit. l. [8]: Tityre tu patule recuba[n]s sub tegmine fagi: Siluestrem tenui musa[m] meditaris auena. Leaf [50b], l.[3]: Primus habet. lybica[n] ueniu[n]t ut troes in urbern. Edocet excidium troiae clademq[ue] secundus. Colophon, leaf [108b] l.[31]: Finit exclamatio caesaris in Virgilii uotum.
• Mortet (VRG 2945.823)
• No signatures or catchwords.
• VRG copy has initials illuminated in gold, red and blue.
• VRG copy contains ms. notes.
• VRG copy imperfect: leaf [22], all leaves after leaf [209] wanting; back free endpaper is a stub.

Binding note

VRG copy in old plain leather or parchment over wooden boards; covering of spine is gone; each board has more than one hundred worm-holes, some of which go throught the boards and through the parchment pastedowns; these worm-holes, however, do not continue into the text block; evidence of former caches and clasps at fore-edge; in blue cloth clamshell box.

References

Goff V-155

OCLC

57147305

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