- Opera
- Uniform title:
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- Works. 1470
- Author:
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- Virgil
- Printer:
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- Wendelin, of Speier, d. 1477?
- Publisher:
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- [Venice] : Vindelinus de Spira, 1470.
- Format:
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- Book
- Date:
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- 1470
- Extent:
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- 161 leaves (the last two blank) ; 33 cm. (fol.)
- Language:
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- Latin
- Description:
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- 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.
- Binding note:
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- VRG copy in later red goatskin with French fillet and outer dentelles in gold; marbled endpapers; in dark blue goatskin pull-off case.
- Former owner:
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- Sunderland, Charles Spencer, Earl of, 1674-1722
- Ives, Brayton, 1840-1914
- Morgan, Junius Spencer
- Call number:
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- Oversize VRG 2945.1470q
- View in catalog:
- Collections:
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- Incunabula at Princeton
- Junius Spencer Morgan
- In Principio
- Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
- The Scheide Library
- Treasures of Rare Book Division