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Mavri Servii Honorati grammatici in tria Virgilii opera expositio incipit.

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.
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.
Classification
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