• [Aeneis] ; Buccolica / [Virgil].

Extent:
  • 131 leaves : paper ; 287 x 215 (200 x 95-110) mm bound to 294 x 232 mm.
Date:
  • 1400-1444
Language:
Author:
  • Virgil
Abstract:
  • Virgil's Aeneis (books I-IX) and Bucolica.
Contents:
  • 1. fol. 1r-118v: [Aeneid]
  • 2. fol. 199r-130v: Buccolica Virgilii.
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Titles supplied by cataloger and taken from the explicit.
  • Many interlinear and marginal notes and glosses.
  • Incipit: [Aeneis] “[A]rma uirumque cano troie qui primus ab oris, Italiam fato profugus Lauinaque uenit…” -- [Buccolica Virgilii] “[T]itire tu, patule, recubans sub tegmine fagi, Siluestrem tenui musam meditaris auena…”
  • Explicit: [Aeneis] “Accepit uenientem, ac mollibus extulit undis, Et letum sociis abluta cede remisit.” -- [Buccolica Virgilii] “Iuniperi grauis umbra nocent et frugibus umbre, Ite domum sature uenit Hesperus ite capelle. Explicit buccolica virgilii. Qui scripsit scribat semper cum domino uiuat.”
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 131 + i ; catchwords (quires 1-6) ; modern foliation in pencil.
  • Layout: 28-34 lines per page ; ruled.
  • Description: Written by several hands ; manicules ; watermarks (balance, horn, trois monts).
Binding note:
  • Later binding. 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.
Provenance:
  • Uncertain early provenance and unknown intermediate provenance. Sir Thomas Phillipps acquired the manuscript around 1830 from the Parisian booksellers De Bure. Sold from his collection in 1896. It went via Bernard Quaritch to Junius Spencer Morgan, Class of 1988, of Princeton, New Jersey. Morgan donated the manuscript to the Princeton University Library, where it was accessioned in July 1899 as no. 118253.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift; Junius Spencer Morgan, 1899.
Former owner:
  • Philipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Contributor:
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 38.
References:
  • Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 218-220.
Alternative:
  • Opera
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