• Aeneid ; Georgics : extracts with drawings / Virgil

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Language:
  • Latin
Creator:
  • Virgil
Extent:
  • 1 volume (53 leaves) : parchment, illustrations
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Type:
  • Epic poetry
  • Didactic poetry
  • Poetry
  • Early works to 1800
Description:
  • Script: Humanistica cursiva.
  • Decoration: The present manuscript is comprised of drawings copying 50 illustrations in the Vatican Virgil (Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. MS. 3225, fols. 1r-74v), with illustrations on 49 rectos, and two on fol. 8r. Many drawings contain pencil as well as ink and wash, and the manuscript ends with a drawing of a tree by another artist, on fol. 53r. The drawings were copied from the illustrated Virgil manuscript produced in Rome about 400 C.E.
Publisher:
  • [Rome, Italy] : [producer not identified], [between 1514 and 1521]
Subject:
  • Latin poetry—Early works to 1800
  • Aeneas (Legendary character)—Poetry
  • Agriculture—Poetry—Early works to 1800
  • Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Italy—Rome
  • Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
  • Illumination of books and manuscripts
  • Epic poetry
  • Didactic poetry
  • Poetry
Title sort:
  • Aeneid ; Georgics : extracts with drawings / Virgil.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift; Alexander P. Morgan, 1965.
References:
  • Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 325-329.
Created:
  • 1514-01-01T00:00:00Z/1521-12-31T23:59:59Z
Date:
  • 1514-1521
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/dc9w032d577
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Range label:
  • Logical
Alternative:
  • Georgics
Spatial:
  • Italy
  • New Jersey
Binding note:
  • Italy, ca. 1515-1521. Anthony Hobson identified the binding as the work of Paolo di Bernardino Bancheli, who was active in Rome around 1515-1525. Dark-red goatskin over pasteboard; blind-tooled in four panels with a lozenge at center, four elliptical designs in each quarter-panel, and a center fleuron; remains of shell-gold in depressions of the tooling.
Provenance:
  • Princeton MS. 104 was produced and bound in Rome, ca. 1514-1521. Possible 17th century French ownership; notes in French, written in brown ink, on fol. i recto (“fragments extraits de Virgile /Figures”) and a different hand on fol. 27v (“Livre IV “vere 650 et Suivante”). Intermediate provenance is unknown. The manuscript was acquired by Junius Spencer Morgan (1867-1932), Class of 1888, and was later in the collection of his son, Alexander P. Morgan, Class of 1922. In 1965, Morgan donated the manuscript to the Princeton University Library (AM 18826).
Author:
  • Virgil
Former owner:
  • Morgan, Junius Spencer
Contributor:
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 104
Donor:
  • Morgan, Alexander P., 1900-1968