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Virgilius. This boke treath [sic] of the lyfe of Virgilius and of his deth and many maruayles that he did in his lyfe tyme by whychcraft and nygramansy thorowgh the helpe of the devyls of hell.

Accession number
PML 20939
Published
Emprynted in the cytie of Anwarpe : By me, Joh[a]n Doesborcke dwellyng at ye the camerporte, [1518?]]
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Notes
Imprint from colophon (leaf F3v): Thus endeth the Lyfe of Virgilius with many dyvers consaytes that he dyd Emprynted in they Cytie of Anwarpe [sic] By me Joh[a]n Doesborcke dwellynge at [th]e camerporte.
Date from STC.
Signatures: A-B⁶ C⁴ D⁶ E⁴ F⁴: 30 leaves.
First word of title is xylographic.
Original issue.
Description
[30] leaves : ill (woodcuts) ; 18 cm (4to)
Provenance
[Previously bound in a Sammelband with 11 other titles, including Frederyke of Jennen (now PML 20938), see Proctor, Jan Van Doesborgh, Printer at Antwerp, no. 16] James West, his sale, Langford, 29 March 1773, lot 1851, to Ratcliffe for £2.17.6; John Ratcliffe, his sale (with volume broken up), Christie, 27 March 1776; John Ker, Duke of Roxburghe, his sale, Evans, 18 May 1812, lot 6376 for £54.12.0; George Spencer Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (White Knights Library), his sale, Evans, 7 June 1819, lot 4595 to Rodd for £1.7.0 (Proctor says to Triphook for £29.8.0); George Hibbert, his sale, Evans, 16 March 1829, lot 8400 to Thorpe for Heber for £29.18.6; Richard Heber, his sale, Sotheby, pt. IX, 11 April 1836, lot 3145 to Thorpe for Christie Miller for £25.10.0; Christie Miller/Britwell Court sale, Sotheby, 1919, to Bernard Quaritch; J.P. Morgan, Jr., purchased from Quaritch, 1920.
Binding
Twentieth-century dark brown calf, red label; Roxburghe arms from earlier binding set into inner board. In brown linen case.
Classification
Department