Shelfmark
DDk.4.09
Author
Collective uniform title
Works
Title
[L'Opere di Virgilio Mantoano. Cioe la Bvcolica, la Georgica, e l'Eneide. Commentate in lingva volgare toscana, da Giouanni Fabrini da Fighine, da Carlo Malatesta da Rimene, & da Filippo Venuti da Cortona. Con ordine, che l'espositione volgare dichiara la latina, & la latina la volgare: & è utile tanto à chi in questo poema vuole imparar la lingua latina, quanto à chi cerca d'apprendere la volgare. Nvovmente ornate di vaghe & bellissime figure ...].
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Venetia] : [Apresso gli hered. di Marchiò Sessa], [1588?].
Physical description
443, [1] leaves : ill. ; Fo.
Note
Previously En.3.14.
Note
Text of Virgil's works in Latin; commentary in Italian.
Note
No title-page or colophon (see next note); catalogued from Library of Congress record. Printer certain, as Sessa device on leaf 2. Edition tentatively assumed from matching foliation (records found for other Sessa editions don't match).
Note
Incomplete: wants title-page (leaf 1), leaves 56-7, 101, and final leaf. Leaves 2-8 damaged, with loss of text, considerable on leaves 2-3. A few words supplied in ms. Worm damage throughout, also sometimes affecting text.
Note
Ms. notes on provenance, binder, editions of Virgil by Sessa, and illustrations. Also ms. notes in text (two hands?).
Provenance
Ms. note signed "?EW", reading "Bought at S. Remo by ?F.O.-. for 23 lire in February. 1887 - came from ?Via Calderina, out of an old house".
Binding
19th century (1890) blind-stamped ?sheep with central ornament. By R. de Coverly of Charing Cross for 1/10/3.
Subject
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Added entry--place
Italy Venice.
Language code
ita lat
Identifier
B16858