1. VIRGIL, OPERA. [Paris: Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz & Michael Friburger, ca. 1472]

Curatorial Note:

The earliest French printers based their Royal quarto edition of Virgil’s works on a manuscript, probably from the Sorbonne library, independent of the versions in the earlier editions. Until the Princeton copy came to light in 1906, this Paris edition, known only from the incomplete Spencer-Rylands copy, was thought to consist solely of the Bucolics and Georgics, omitting the Aeneid. Once owned by the Dominican friars of Limoges, Princeton’s complete copy preserves its original binding. The book is opened to the beginning of the Aeneid.