Accession number
PML 20970
Creator
Virgil.
Object title
P. Virgilii Maronis Partheniæ Mantuani Bucolicon liber : ad C. Asinium Pollionem consulari dignitate fulgentum.
Published
Impressum Parmæ : opera & impensis Andreæ Portiliæ, Anno domini M.CCCCLXXIX. quarto idus Maii [12 May 1479].
Description
[208] leaves ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title from incipit, leaf a2r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf y10r.
Printed in Portilia's type 2:109R.
Signatures: a-b¹⁰ c-e⁸ f-m¹⁰ n⁸ o¹⁰ p⁸ q-u¹⁰ x⁸ y¹⁰: 208 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
1 column of 36 lines. Initial spaces, with guide letters.
Includes: Copa. Moretum. Dirae. Est et non. Vir bonus. Rosae. Culex. Priapea. De Herculis laboribus. De littera Y. De fortuna. De Orpheo. Ovidius: Versus.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.8 x 19.2 cm., trimmed.
Imprint from colophon, leaf y10r.
Printed in Portilia's type 2:109R.
Signatures: a-b¹⁰ c-e⁸ f-m¹⁰ n⁸ o¹⁰ p⁸ q-u¹⁰ x⁸ y¹⁰: 208 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
1 column of 36 lines. Initial spaces, with guide letters.
Includes: Copa. Moretum. Dirae. Est et non. Vir bonus. Rosae. Culex. Priapea. De Herculis laboribus. De littera Y. De fortuna. De Orpheo. Ovidius: Versus.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.8 x 19.2 cm., trimmed.
Binding
Modern gilt-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (30 x 20 cm.), sewn on 6 supports by Bedford. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Opera
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary German (Lower Rhine?) rubrication, alternating red and blue initials, red paragraph marks and capital strokes. Modern red ruling. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Henry Huth (1815-1878), inherited by his son: Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Ex Museo Huthii booklabel (front pastedown); Huth sale, Sotheby's, 8 July 1919, lot 7778, to Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased July 1919.
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