Head-pieces; woodcut initials; catchwords; initials of interlocutors.
Imprint from colophon on leaf [epsilon]e8 recto.
Imprint uses Venetian dating (calendar year begins on March 25).
Leaves [Zeta]F1.6, 2.5 and quire [Theta]G exist in two settings. In the first setting, the first hexameter of both idylls on [Zeta]F1r is printed in two lines, and [Theta]G6v is blank. In the second setting, the first hexameter of both idylls on [Zeta]F1r is printed in a single line, [Theta]G6v contains the idyll on the dead Adonis, and the idyll on [Theta]G6r is set within a goblet-shaped woodcut frame. Cf. BM 15th cent.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio
PML copy is second setting.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.5 x 21 cm
Printed in Aldus's types 1:146Gk, 2:114R, and 6:83R.
Register (leaf [epsilon]e7 verso).
Signatures: [Alpha]A-[Delta]D⁸ [Epsilon]E-[Theta]G⁶ ([Theta]G6 + 2) 4[Alpha]-4[Delta]⁸ 4[Epsilon]⁶ 4[Zeta]¹⁰ [alpha]a-[beta]b⁸ [gamma]c¹⁰ [delta]d-[epsilon]e⁸: 142 leaves. Second setting has two leaves from first setting added at end of quire [Theat]G to make up for missing text.
The Disticha of Pseudo-Cato are given in the Greek translation of Maximus Planudes.
The Idylls of Theocritus with numerous other works in Greek.
Title from contents, leaf [Alpha]A1 recto; Greek title appears in Greek characters.
Title on verso of final leaf: In hoc uolumine continentur haec Hesiodi Ascraei poetae Theogonia. hoc e[x] de generatione deoru[m] opusculum. Eiusde[m] Aspis. hoc est de scuto Herculis opusculum. Eiusde[m] Georgicorum libri duo dicti Erga & Himerae. id est opera & dies.
Title in ISTC: Idyllia
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Printed initial and head-piece with background painted (leaf 4[Alpha]1r). Annotations: Contemporary Greek manuscript notations throughout, extensive at times. Additional leaf added after [Alpha]A1 with manuscript.