Details

Subject(s)

• Country life—Rome—Poetry [Browse]
• Pastoral poetry, Latin—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Printer

• Johann, of Paderborn, active 1473-1496 [Browse]

Notes

• 26 lines to a full page; leaf size: 258 x 181 mm.
• Below the colophon is an oval portrait head which is the device of Johann de Westfalia.
• Capital spaces, some with guide letters.
• Imprint from colophon on [h]8r, which reads: "Presens bucolico[rum], georgico[rum], & quoru[n]da[m] tractatulo[rum] op[us] insigne virgilii poeta[rum] principis: Joa[n]nes de paderborne i[n] vvestfalia alma in vniuersitate louaniensi residens, suo [pro]prio signo [con]signando feliciter [con]summauit Anno incarnationis dominice. M. cccc. lxxv. me[n]sis nouembris die vicesimanona."
• On leaf [b]8v: "Publii Virgilii Maronis liber primus georgicorum incipit feliciter".
• Signatures from Chawner.
• Signatures: [a]¹⁰ [b-h]⁸.
• The first leaf is blank.
• With a page of errata on leaf [h]8v.
• Princeton copy 1 2 works in one volume, Chancery folio (277 x 194mm.), 65 leaves (of 66, without initial blank, [a10 b-h8]; 196 leaves, [a–y8 z10 A10], 26 lines, gothic type, initials printed in red, woodcut printer's device at end of each part, colophon to Aeneis printed in red, red paraphs and initial-strokes, later manuscript headlines, traces of manuscript quiring, later English diced calf, gilt edges, early annotations in different hands. Provenance: Robert Crofton; Gullihelmus Futtmannus with his GF monogram, early English inscriptions on final verso along with other notes on ownership and pen trials; Firle Place, printed booklabel (Case K, shelf 3); W.D.P., bibliographical notes pasted to flyleaf. Loosely inserted is a letter about the bibliographical details of this book, by G.A. Smyth addressed "My dear Lord", dated 5 November 1872.

With

Bound with: Aeneis. Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia. 8 April 1476.

References

• BSB-Ink, V-91
• Chawner, A list of the incunabula in the Library of King's College, Cambridge (1908), 176
• GW, M50005
• ISTC, iv00217700
• Pell Ms, 11646

Place name(s)

Belgium Louvain.

OCLC

1156425367

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