Accession number
PML 34641
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
Purchased in 1938.
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 H¹⁰ I-S⁸ T-U¹⁰ X-Z⁸ AA-HH⁸ II⁶ KK-UU⁸ XX⁶ YY-ZZ⁸ a-f⁸; aa-cc⁸ dd¹⁰ (-H5 blank).
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 H¹⁰ I-S⁸ T-U¹⁰ X-Z⁸ AA-HH⁸ II⁶ KK-UU⁸ XX⁶ YY-ZZ⁸ a-f⁸; aa-cc⁸ dd¹⁰ (-H5 blank).
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)
Provenance
Joachim Gomez de la Cortina, Marqués de Morante (1808-1868), Bibliotheca Cortina bookplate (front pastedown), his sale: Paris, part I, 21 Feb. 1872, lot 734; Earl of Powis, inscription (front pastedown, partially under PML bookplate), Powis sale: Sotheby's London, 20 March 1923, lot 336 for £16 to Maggs; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E.Ph. Goldschmidt, Feb. 1938.
Binding
16th-century blind-rolled pigskin over wooden boards.
Classification
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Department