Accession number
PML 24774
Creator
Virgil.
Object title
P. Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, aegloga prima, interlocutores Meliboeus et Tityrus amici.
Published
Venetiis : impressa per Baptistam de Sessa, .M.CCCCXCI. Mensis Aprilis [April 1491].
Description
[10] leaves : illustration (woodcut border) ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1927.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf b4v: Explicit Bucolica P. Virgilii Maronis Venetiis impressa per Baptistam de Sessa .M.CCCCXCI. Mensis Aprilis.
Printed in Sessa's type 1:80R.
Signatures: a⁶ b⁴: 10 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut border with initials B.I. in shield at top, leaf a1r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 14 cm., with top edge remargined.
Imprint from colophon, leaf b4v: Explicit Bucolica P. Virgilii Maronis Venetiis impressa per Baptistam de Sessa .M.CCCCXCI. Mensis Aprilis.
Printed in Sessa's type 1:80R.
Signatures: a⁶ b⁴: 10 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut border with initials B.I. in shield at top, leaf a1r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 14 cm., with top edge remargined.
Binding
19th-century English full green goatskin over paper boards (20.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), booklabel (front pastedown), not in his sale, Christie's, 18 March 1918; Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., unidentified catalogue; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Harper, July 1927.
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