- Opera
- Uniform title:
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- Works. 1472
- Author:
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- Virgil
- Publisher:
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- [Paris : Ulrich Gering, Michael Friburger, and Martin Crantz, about 1472]
- Format:
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- Book
- Date:
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- 1472
- Extent:
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- 1 v. ; 31 cm. (leaf, 29 x 20 cm.)
- Language:
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- Latin
- Description:
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- Title and imprint from Goff.
- Sig.: a⁶, b-d⁵, e⁴, f⁶, g-h⁵, j-u⁵, no catchwords.
- 32 lines to a page; type 2 (cf. Haebler); printed in black.
- Leaf [1a]: Publii Virgilii maronis mantuani uatis clarissimi Bucolica & Aegloga prima fœliciter incipit. l. [8]: Tityre tu patule recuba[n]s sub tegmine fagi: Siluestrem tenui musa[m] meditaris auena. Leaf [50b], l.[3]: Primus habet. lybica[n] ueniu[n]t ut troes in urbern. Edocet excidium troiae clademq[ue] secundus. Colophon, leaf [108b] l.[31]: Finit exclamatio caesaris in Virgilii uotum.
- Mortet (VRG 2945.823)
- No signatures or catchwords.
- VRG copy has initials illuminated in gold, red and blue.
- VRG copy contains ms. notes.
- VRG copy imperfect: leaf [22], all leaves after leaf [209] wanting; back free endpaper is a stub.
- Binding note:
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- VRG copy in old plain leather or parchment over wooden boards; covering of spine is gone; each board has more than one hundred worm-holes, some of which go throught the boards and through the parchment pastedowns; these worm-holes, however, do not continue into the text block; evidence of former caches and clasps at fore-edge; in blue cloth clamshell box.
- Call number:
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- MICROFILM 7551
- Oversize VRG 2945.1470.2q
- View in catalog:
- Collections:
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- Incunabula at Princeton
- In Principio
- Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
- The Scheide Library
- Treasures of Rare Book Division