Accession number
PML 125854
Creator
Virgil.
Object title
Opera.
Published
Nuremberg : Anton Koberger, 1492.
Description
[8], I-CCCXLV, [1] ; 32 cm
Credit line
Gift of Lydia L. Redmond, in memory of her mother and stepfather, Mr. & Mrs. William M. Clearwater, 1996.
Notes
Title from colophon.
Colophon (leaf S7r): Publii Virgilii Maronis opera: cum Servii Mauri Honorati grammatici: Aelii Donati: Christophori Landini: atq[ue] Domitii Calderini: Co[m]mentariis: Nurnberge imp[re]ssa imp[en]sis Anthonii Koberger Anno [Christ]i .M.ccccxcii.
Printed in Koberger's types 22:108R (commentary) and 23:75R (text and headlines).
Collation: [1]⁸; a-h⁸ i-k⁶ l¹⁰ m-z, &, [con], [rum], A-N⁸ O⁶ P-Q⁸ R⁶ S⁸: 354 leaves, leaves [1/1] and S8 blank. Quire [1] numerically signed on leaves 2-5.
Chancery folio (31 x 21.7 cm)
Bucolica and Georgica, with argumenta (commentary by Servius and Landinus); Aeneis, with argumenta (commentary by Servius, Donatus, and Landinus).
For contents, see Bod-inc.
PML copy wants 1 leaf: S8 (blank).
Colophon (leaf S7r): Publii Virgilii Maronis opera: cum Servii Mauri Honorati grammatici: Aelii Donati: Christophori Landini: atq[ue] Domitii Calderini: Co[m]mentariis: Nurnberge imp[re]ssa imp[en]sis Anthonii Koberger Anno [Christ]i .M.ccccxcii.
Printed in Koberger's types 22:108R (commentary) and 23:75R (text and headlines).
Collation: [1]⁸; a-h⁸ i-k⁶ l¹⁰ m-z, &, [con], [rum], A-N⁸ O⁶ P-Q⁸ R⁶ S⁸: 354 leaves, leaves [1/1] and S8 blank. Quire [1] numerically signed on leaves 2-5.
Chancery folio (31 x 21.7 cm)
Bucolica and Georgica, with argumenta (commentary by Servius and Landinus); Aeneis, with argumenta (commentary by Servius, Donatus, and Landinus).
For contents, see Bod-inc.
PML copy wants 1 leaf: S8 (blank).
Binding
Contemporary blind-stamped German calf over wooden boards (32.5 x 22.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports (previously misidentified as Bamberg Minorite workshop, Kyriss 6), workshop currently unidentified; repaired. Modern plain paper pastedowns.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Lombards (where needed) added later in plain black ink. Annotations: Some contemporary marginal notations, mainly near beginning of Bucolica and 18th-century reading notes, Feb. 1745-25 Aug. 1746.
Provenance
Johann, Freiherr von Türckheim (1749-1824), Bibliotheca Türkheimiana armorial bookplate (front pastedown); [O. Weigel, Schlossbibliothek Türkheim auction, 1919?]; unidentified American sale catalog description, lot 58, in dept. file; Pierpont Morgan Library, Lydia L. Redmond, in memory of her mother and stepfather, Mr. & Mrs. William M. Clearwater, 1996.
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