Accession number
PML 126071
Creator
Virgil.
Published
Impressum regioa in ciuitate Argenten[ensis] : impensa non mediocri magrist Iohannis Grieninger, Millesimo quingentesimo secu[n]do quinta kalendas septembres die [1502]
Credit line
Bequest of Clark Stillman, 1995.
Notes
Imprint from colophon, leaf dd10r: Impressum regia in ciuitate Argenten[ensis] ordinatione: elimatione: ac relect[i]one Sebastiani Brant: operaq[ue] & impensa non mediocri magistri Iohannis Grieninger. Anno incarnationis christi. Millesimo quingentesimo secu[n]do quinta kalendas spetembres die. [Printer's mark]
Signatures: A⁶ B-G⁸ H⁸(+H5) I-S⁸ T-U¹⁰ X-Z⁸ AA-HH⁸ II⁶ KK-UU⁸ XX⁶ YY-ZZ⁸ a-f⁸; aa-cc⁸ dd¹⁰.
Includes "Maphei Veggii ... liber tredecim additus duodecim Aeneidos libris" and the minor poems attributed to Virgil.
Text surrounded by commentary by Landino.
Edited by Sebastian Brant.
Mistakes in foliation.
214 woodcuts, woodcut initials, printer's mark (Davies 168).
Woodcuts attributed to the Late Master of the Grüninger Workshop.
Signatures: A⁶ B-G⁸ H⁸(+H5) I-S⁸ T-U¹⁰ X-Z⁸ AA-HH⁸ II⁶ KK-UU⁸ XX⁶ YY-ZZ⁸ a-f⁸; aa-cc⁸ dd¹⁰.
Includes "Maphei Veggii ... liber tredecim additus duodecim Aeneidos libris" and the minor poems attributed to Virgil.
Text surrounded by commentary by Landino.
Edited by Sebastian Brant.
Mistakes in foliation.
214 woodcuts, woodcut initials, printer's mark (Davies 168).
Woodcuts attributed to the Late Master of the Grüninger Workshop.
Description
6 preliminary leaves, CCCCVII [i.e. CCCCX] (with mistakes), XXXIIII leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (folio)
Inscriptions/Markings
Contemporary marginal notations sporadically throughout text, in two hands.
Provenance
Ramon Valdez de Oviedo, signature (front pastedown); unidentified signature: P. F. Petal (front pastedown); Liechtenstein, armorial bookplate (front pastedown); E. Clark Stillman (1907-1995), shelfmark: SP58 (rear pastedown), purchased from H.P. Kraus, 1959, bequeathed to: Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Binding
16th-century German blind-stamped quarter calf over beech boards by an unidentified Nuremberg bindery (Nuremberg armorial stamp with N surmount). 2 clasps, missing.
Classification
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