• Opera

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Language:
  • Latin
Creator:
  • Virgil
Call number:
  • Oversize VRG 2945.1470q
Extent:
  • 161 leaves (the last two blank) ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Format:
  • Book
Description:
  • New York Times, Sept. 30, 1891, p. 9, records John Pierce, NY bookseller, purchased this lot at Ives auction for $3000 and subsequently sold it to Junius Spencer Morgan.
  • Gathering: [16]
  • No. of lines varies; type 1 (cf. Haebler); printed in black.
  • Leaf 1a: Publii Virgilii maronis bucolicorum Liber incipit: Aegloga prima Tityrus & melibeus: Titye tu pauvlae recubans sub tegmine fagi Siluestrem tenui musam meditaris auena. Ends, leaf 161b, l. 11: .M.CCCC.LXX.
  • First dated edition; printed on parchment.
  • VRG copy has initials and decorations illuminated red, blue, green and gold.
Publisher:
  • [Venice] : Vindelinus de Spira, 1470.
Title sort:
  • Opera.
References:
  • Goff V-150
  • BM 15th cent., V, p. 154 (IB.19525b)
  • Copinger 6003
  • Sunderland, C. S. Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana 13041
  • Ives, B. Catalogue of the collection of books and manuscripts belonging to Mr. Brayton Ives no. 1028 (p. 292-293, with illustration of title page)
Created:
  • 1470-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1470
Location:
  • HSVR Oversize VRG 2945.1470q
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/2b88qh52c
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Range label:
  • Logical
Binding note:
  • VRG copy in later red goatskin with French fillet and outer dentelles in gold; marbled endpapers; in dark blue goatskin pull-off case.
Provenance:
  • VRG copy is from the Sunderland Library.
  • VRG copy has booklabels of Brayton Ives., no. 1028, and Junius Spencer Morgan.
Author:
  • Virgil
Printer:
  • Wendelin, of Speier, d. 1477?
Former owner:
  • Sunderland, Charles Spencer, Earl of, 1674-1722
  • Ives, Brayton, 1840-1914
  • Morgan, Junius Spencer
Uniform title:
  • Works. 1470