Shelfmark
Fg.2.13
Author
Collective uniform title
Works. 1529
Title
Opera Virgiliana. Opera Virgiliana cum decem commentis, docte et familiariter exposita, docte quidem Bucolica, & Georgica à Seruio, Donato, Mancinello & Probo nuper addito : cu[m] adnotationibus Beroaldinis. Aeneis uerò ab iisdem pr[a]eter Mancinellum & Probum, & ab Augustino Datho in eius principio: opusculorum præterea quædam ab Domitio Calderino. Familiariter uerò omnia tam opera q[ue] opuscula ab Iodoco Badio Asce[n]sio. Addidimus præterea opusculum aliud, in priapi lusum, quod in antea impressis minime reperitur. ...
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lugduni, : In typographaria officina Ioannis Crespini,, anno Virginei partus M.D.XXIX. [1529]
Physical description
[12], XVII-CCLXVIII, XCV, CCCCCC, [16] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Note
The Aeneid has separate t.p. with title "Aeneis Virgiliana ..." and fleur-de-lis device (A1); variant has device of Vincent de Portonariis instead of fleur-de-lis (cf. Adams V475).
Note
Imprint from colophon (ff8 and [dagger]8); title-page has date only.
Note
Signatures: a⁶ b-q⁸ r⁶; aa-ff⁸; A⁶ B-Z⁸ AA-OO⁸ PP⁶ [dagger].
Note
With woodcut illustrations from the ed. published Strasbourg: J. Gruninger, 1502, under the supervision of Sebastian Brant. See Rabb, T.K. "Sebastian Brant and the first illustrated edition of Vergil" Princeton University Library chronicle, XXI, 4 (Summer 1960); see also C. Schmidt, Jean Grüninger, Strasb. 1894, p. 26-27, no. 60.
Note
Title-page printed in red and black with woodcut border.
Note
Printed in double columns, commentary surrounding text; initials.
Citation/references note
Adams V474
Provenance
Presented 1958 by F.R. Warre, Esq.
Provenance
Bookplate of Alfred W. Tait, Oporto, with curatorial note "the bookplate is of a friend of Dr Warre".
Binding
19th/20th-century quarter blue roan; gold-tooled spine; red roan spine-labels; green grained paper boards; marbled endpapers.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: wanting leaves OO6-8 and PP1-2, parts of PP6-7, and the last eight leaves; some leaves damaged and repaired.
Subject
Virgil Criticism and interpretation.
Subject
Epic poetry, Latin.
Subject
Didactic poetry, Latin.
Subject
Pastoral poetry, Latin.
Subject
Agriculture Poetry.
Subject
Country life Poetry.
Subject
Aeneas (Legendary character) Poetry.
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Brant, Sebastian, 1458 - 1521 illustrator.
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Crespin, Jean, active 1524 - 1543 printer.
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Appendix Vergiliana.
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France Lyon.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B33255