• Aeneid ; Bucolics / Virgil

Extent:
  • 1 volume (i, 131, i ileaves) : parchment ; 29 cm
Date:
  • 1400-1444
Language:
Author:
  • Virgil
Description:
  • Script: Semi-Gothic, by several different hands of varying quality.
  • Decoration: None; unexecuted initials.
Binding note:
  • England, 19th century. Half calf and pasteboard covered in gray paper; sewn on 5 cords, with light blue and brown endbands. Formerly in a binding with two clasps on the fore-edge; first leaves damaged by hardware, and edges of textblock lighter where once covered by straps.
Provenance:
  • Princeton MS. 38 is of uncertain early provenance. Intermediate provenance is unknown. The manuscript was no. 125 in an unknown early modern library or sale (written in ink near the top of fol. 1r), and the spine label identifies it as no. 209 in another unidentified library. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), of Middle Hill, Worcestershire, acquired the manuscript around 1830 from the Parisian booksellers De Bure, sons of Guillaume de Bure l'aineĢ (d. 1820). The manuscript became Phillipps 4362. The manuscript was sold at the Phillipps sale in London on 17 June 1896. It went via the London antiquarian bookseller Bernard Quaritch to Junius Spencer Morgan (1867-1932), Class of 1988, of Princeton, New Jersey. The manuscript has a catalogue slip, no. 1242, 2 lines, in English (possibly Quaritch). Morgan donated the manuscript to the Princeton University Library, where it was accessioned in July 1899 as no. 118253 and catalogued as VRGMS 2945.1420.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift; Junius Spencer Morgan, 1899.
Former owner:
  • Philipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
  • Morgan, Junius Spencer
Contributor:
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 38.
References:
  • Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 218-220.
Alternative:
  • Bucolics
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