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
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