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• VIRGIL, OPERA. Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, 1470

Curatorial Note:

After Johannes de Spira died in early 1470, his brother Vindelinus undertook an ambitious printing program, including the earliest explicitly dated edition of Virgil’s works. Printed in a pleasingly balanced roman typeface, this edition was textually superior to those printed in Rome and Strasbourg. In Princeton’s vellum copy, one of nine surviving, the beginning of the Bucolics features a richly illuminated border with antique motifs, tentatively ascribed to the miniaturist Franco dei Russi of Mantua, active in Venice in 1471–1472.