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

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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.

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Title and imprint from Goff.
Sig.: a⁶, b-d⁵, e⁴, f⁶, g-h⁵, j-u⁵, no catchwords.
32 lines to a page; type 2 (cf. Haebler); printed in black.
Leaf [1a]: Publii Virgilii maronis mantuani uatis clarissimi Bucolica & Aegloga prima fœliciter incipit. l. [8]: Tityre tu patule recuba[n]s sub tegmine fagi: Siluestrem tenui musa[m] meditaris auena. Leaf [50b], l.[3]: Primus habet. lybica[n] ueniu[n]t ut troes in urbern. Edocet excidium troiae clademq[ue] secundus. Colophon, leaf [108b] l.[31]: Finit exclamatio caesaris in Virgilii uotum.
Mortet (VRG 2945.823)
No signatures or catchwords.
VRG copy has initials illuminated in gold, red and blue.
VRG copy contains ms. notes.
VRG copy imperfect: leaf [22], all leaves after leaf [209] wanting; back free endpaper is a stub.

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VRG copy in old plain leather or parchment over wooden boards; covering of spine is gone; each board has more than one hundred worm-holes, some of which go throught the boards and through the parchment pastedowns; these worm-holes, however, do not continue into the text block; evidence of former caches and clasps at fore-edge; in blue cloth clamshell box.

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