Accession number
PML 21969
Creator
Servius, active 4th century.
Object title
Mavri Servii Honorati grammatici in tria Virgilii opera expositio incipit.
Published
[Rome] : Vdalricus Gallus, [about 1470-1471]
Description
[322] leaves ; 35 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r: Mavri Servii Honorati grammatici in tria Virgilii opera expositio incipit. Et primo in Bvcolica.
Printer's name from colophon, leaf [35]/5r: Anser Tarpeii custop Iouis: unde: q[uam] alis / Constreperes. Gallus decidit. Vltor adest. / Vdalricus Gallus: ne quem poscant[ur] in usum / Edocuit pennis nil opus esse tuis. / Imprimit ille die: quantum non scribit[ur] anno / Ingenio. haud noceas. monia uincit homo.
Printed in Han's type 4:103R and Greek type.
Dated by CIBN; IGI dates about 1477.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3¹² 4-5¹⁰ 6⁸ 7-8¹⁰ 9⁸ 10¹⁴ 11-20¹⁰ 21-25⁸ 26¹⁰ 27-29⁸ 30¹⁰ 31⁶ 32¹⁰ 33⁴ 34¹⁰ 35⁶]: 322 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank. Variant collation in GW [...27-35⁸]: 324 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [35]/8 blank. For transcriptions and collation see Walsh.
Paper format: Median folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 34.1 x 22.7 cm.
Printer's name from colophon, leaf [35]/5r: Anser Tarpeii custop Iouis: unde: q[uam] alis / Constreperes. Gallus decidit. Vltor adest. / Vdalricus Gallus: ne quem poscant[ur] in usum / Edocuit pennis nil opus esse tuis. / Imprimit ille die: quantum non scribit[ur] anno / Ingenio. haud noceas. monia uincit homo.
Printed in Han's type 4:103R and Greek type.
Dated by CIBN; IGI dates about 1477.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3¹² 4-5¹⁰ 6⁸ 7-8¹⁰ 9⁸ 10¹⁴ 11-20¹⁰ 21-25⁸ 26¹⁰ 27-29⁸ 30¹⁰ 31⁶ 32¹⁰ 33⁴ 34¹⁰ 35⁶]: 322 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank. Variant collation in GW [...27-35⁸]: 324 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [35]/8 blank. For transcriptions and collation see Walsh.
Paper format: Median folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 34.1 x 22.7 cm.
Binding
19th-century (Italian?) quarter brown goatskin, with paper sides, over paper boards (35 x 24.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Variant title
Mauri Servii Honorati grammatici in tria Virgilii opera expositio incipit
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in at least 3 Italic hands, sporadically throughout, including Roman numeral headlines and inscriptions: "Perlege quis melius mo[n]strat tibi gra[m]mata lector / Quis melius numeris dogmata cu[n]cta docat / Tempora descriptsit: cursus et siclera nouit / Hic maris et terre sic remeauit iter." and "Disce puer suda vigilia perairre(?) libellos / Non emitur nummol[ib]ra sed studio" (leaf [1]/1r) and "Leonardi libe" (leaf [35]/5r). Contemporary manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures.
Provenance
Eduardo Bonvicini, inscription, dated 18 March 1565 (leaf [1]/1r); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Feb. 1923.
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