Aeneid ; Georgics : extracts with drawings / Virgil.

Author
Virgil [Browse]
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Latin
Published/​Created
[Rome, Italy] : [producer not identified], [between 1514 and 1521]
Description
1 volume (53 leaves) : parchment, illustrations

Details

Subject(s)
Former owner
Donor
Library of Congress genre(s)
Contains
Notes
  • Script: Humanistica cursiva.
  • Decoration: The present manuscript is comprised of drawings copying 50 illustrations in the Vatican Virgil (Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. MS. 3225, fols. 1r-74v), with illustrations on 49 rectos, and two on fol. 8r. Many drawings contain pencil as well as ink and wash, and the manuscript ends with a drawing of a tree by another artist, on fol. 53r. The drawings were copied from the illustrated Virgil manuscript produced in Rome about 400 C.E.
Binding note
Italy, ca. 1515-1521. Anthony Hobson identified the binding as the work of Paolo di Bernardino Bancheli, who was active in Rome around 1515-1525. Dark-red goatskin over pasteboard; blind-tooled in four panels with a lozenge at center, four elliptical designs in each quarter-panel, and a center fleuron; remains of shell-gold in depressions of the tooling.
Provenance
Princeton MS. 104 was produced and bound in Rome, ca. 1514-1521. Possible 17th century French ownership; notes in French, written in brown ink, on fol. i recto (“fragments extraits de Virgile /Figures”) and a different hand on fol. 27v (“Livre IV “vere 650 et Suivante”). Intermediate provenance is unknown. The manuscript was acquired by Junius Spencer Morgan (1867-1932), Class of 1888, and was later in the collection of his son, Alexander P. Morgan, Class of 1922. In 1965, Morgan donated the manuscript to the Princeton University Library (AM 18826).
Source acquisition
Gift; Alexander P. Morgan, 1965.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 325-329.
Cite as
Princeton MS. 104, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Other title(s)
Georgics
OCLC
1109955613
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