Details

Subject(s)

• Aeneas (Legendary character)—Poetry [Browse]
• Pastoral poetry, Latin—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Latin poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Italy—Ferrara [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Former owner

• Philipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872 [Browse]
• Morgan, Junius Spencer [Browse]

Donor

• Morgan, Junius Spencer [Browse]

Bookseller

• Bernard Quaritch (Firm) [Browse]
• Debure frères [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 38. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Epic poetry [Browse]
• Pastoral poetry [Browse]
• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Manicules (Provenance) [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Headbands (Binding) [Browse]

Contains

• Virgil. Aeneis. Liber 1-9. [Browse]
• Virgil. Bucolica. [Browse]

Summary note

Virgil's Aeneis (books I-IX) and Bucolica.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Titles supplied by cataloger and taken from the explicit.
• Many interlinear and marginal notes and glosses.
• Incipit: [Aeneis] “[A]rma uirumque cano troie qui primus ab oris, Italiam fato profugus Lauinaque uenit…” -- [Buccolica Virgilii] “[T]itire tu, patule, recubans sub tegmine fagi, Siluestrem tenui musam meditaris auena…”
• Explicit: [Aeneis] “Accepit uenientem, ac mollibus extulit undis, Et letum sociis abluta cede remisit.” -- [Buccolica Virgilii] “Iuniperi grauis umbra nocent et frugibus umbre, Ite domum sature uenit Hesperus ite capelle. Explicit buccolica virgilii. Qui scripsit scribat semper cum domino uiuat.”
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 131 + i ; catchwords (quires 1-6) ; modern foliation in pencil.
• Layout: 28-34 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Written by several hands ; manicules ; watermarks (balance, horn, trois monts).

Binding note

Later binding. England, 19th century. Half calf and pasteboard covered in gray paper; sewn on 5 cords, with light blue and brown endbands. Formerly in a binding with two clasps on the fore-edge.

Language note

Latin;

Script

Semi-Gothic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1r-118v: [Aeneid]
• 2. fol. 199r-130v: Buccolica Virgilii.

Provenance

Uncertain early provenance and unknown intermediate provenance. Sir Thomas Phillipps acquired the manuscript around 1830 from the Parisian booksellers De Bure. Sold from his collection in 1896. It went via Bernard Quaritch to Junius Spencer Morgan, Class of 1988, of Princeton, New Jersey. Morgan donated the manuscript to the Princeton University Library, where it was accessioned in July 1899 as no. 118253.

Source acquisition

Gift; Junius Spencer Morgan, 1899.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 218-220.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Italy Florence.

Other title(s)

• Opera
• Buccolica Virgilii.

OCLC

1340184795

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