Opera.

Author
Virgil [Browse]
Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
Latin
Published/​Created
[Paris : Ulrich Gering, Michael Friburger, and Martin Crantz, about 1472]
Description
1 v. ; 31 cm. (leaf, 29 x 20 cm.)

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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