tiv00151000

Text-inc Id:

tiv00151000

Bod-inc Id:

V-074

Headings:

Vergilius Maro, Publius Opera.

Analysis of content:

1. [a2r] Vergilius Maro, Publius: Bucolica. Verg. Ecl. On the transmission of Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid see V‑072. For this edition see Venier 38-41, at 39 on the texts, and at 40-1 on its affiliations with Cologne: Ulrich Zell, c.1470, and Louvain: J. Paderborn, 1475. For the dating see Venier, 38-9 and n. 31, with further reference given there.
2. [b5r] Ovidius Naso, Publius [pseudo-: Argumentum in verse]. ‘In libros Georgicorum'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid faciat laetas segetes quae sidera seruet | Agricola ut facilem terram proscindat aratris'; 4 hexameters. See V‑072.
3. [b5v] Vergilius Maro, Publius: Georgica [addressed to Gaius] Maecenas. Verg. G.
4. [f1v] ‘Argumentum in libros Eneidum'. Incipit: ‘Primus habet Libicam ueniant ut Troes in urbem | Et docet excidium Troie clademque secundus'; 12 hexameters. See V‑072.
5. [f1v] [Second argumentum in verse.] ‘Argumentum primi libri Eneidum'. Incipit: ‘Eneas primo Libie depellitur horis | Vir magnus bello nulli pietate secundus'; 12 hexameters. See V‑072.
6. [f2r] Vergilius Maro, Publius: Aeneis. Verg. A.

Imprint:

[Strasbourg: Johann Mentelin, c.1470]. Folio.

Collation:

[a–d¹⁰ e⁸⁺¹ f–p¹⁰ q¹⁰⁺¹ r–v¹⁰ x⁸].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: iv00151000 C 5996; Goff V‑151; BMC I 54; Pr 219; BSB‑Ink V‑106; CIBN V‑104; Copinger, ‘Incunabula Virgiliana', 1; Davies–Goldfinch 3; Mambelli 2; Rhodes 1823; Sheppard 147. LCN: 14695293

Copies:

1. V-074(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf [a1]. The upper margins have been made good throughout. Binding: Eighteenth-century red morocco; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; bound for the Library in London by Walther or Kalthoeber. Gilt-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns; pale green silk bookmark. Size: 320 × 225 × 53 mm. Size of leaf: 310 × 206 mm. An early hand has supplied some interlinear and marginal annotations to Verg. A. 3, mainly synonyms, paraphrases, and longer comments on the text; leaf signatures, most cropped; and on [x8v], in a tiny hand, a list of references. On [a2r] a six-line initial ‘T' is supplied in red with black pen-work decoration within the body of the letter. Elsewhere three- to seven-line initials are supplied in red. The text is enclosed within red rules. Provenance: Edward Bernard (1638-1697); Wanley's list, p. 6, no. 521. Among the books purchased in 1697 from Bernard's widow. SHELFMARK: Auct. L 2.25.