tiv00219000

Text-inc Id:

tiv00219000

Bod-inc Id:

V-108

Headings:

Vergilius Maro, Publius Bucolica et Georgica.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.] ‘Virgilii Maronis poete Buccolica et georgica'.
2. a2r Vergilius Maro, Publius: Bucolica. ‘Interlocutores Melibeus et Tytirus amici Aegloga prima'. Verg. Ecl. On the transmission of Bucolica and Georgica see V‑072.
3. d4r Ovidius [Naso, Publius pseudo-: Argumentum in verse]. ‘Carmina'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid faciat laetas segetes quo sydere seruet | Agricola ut facile terram proscindat aratris'; 4 hexameters. see V‑072. An ‘argumentum' precedes each Georgic. On g3r and k2v the summary (for books II and III) is entitled ‘Tetrastichon'.
4. d4r Vergilius Maro, Publius: Georgica [addressed to Gaius] Maecenas. Verg. G.

Imprint:

[Strasbourg: Johann Prüss, c.1499?]. 4°.

Collation:

a⁸ b–q⁴. Types: 210 G, title; 146 G, headlines with capitals of 156 G; 65 R, text. Capital spaces with guide letters. 68 leaves. 24 lines, leaded (a3r). Type area: 137 ×86 mm (a3r). Leaf a1r: ‘Virgilii Maronis poe | te Buccolica et geo[r]gica'; a2r, l. 1: ‘Buccolica Virgilii Maro// | nis. Interlocutores.Melibeus et Tytirus amici | ..'; l. 4: ‘t Itire tu patule recubās ſub tegmīe fagi Me | Silueſtrem . . .'; d4r, l. 1: ‘Virgilii Maronis carmen | Buccolicum finit. || Publij Virgilij Maronis | Libri Georgicorum Incipiunt || hec ſunt carmina Ouidij | q Vid faciat letas ſegetes? quo ſydere terrā | Vertere mecenas: . . .’

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: iv00219000 C 6086; Goff V‑219; not in Pr; BSB‑Ink V‑99; Copinger, ‘Incunabula Virgiliana', 93; Davies–Goldfinch 99; GfT 1544; Mambelli 591; Sheppard 439. LCN: 14695597

Copies:

1. V-108(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter parchment with orange-brown paper boards. Fragments of leaves removed from the binding in 1885; see T‑132(2). Size: 207 × 148 × 17 mm. Size of leaf: 202 × 138 mm. Copious marginal and interlinear annotations in a contemporary German hand to Ecl. 1 and G. 1, mainly supplying synonyms and definitions, and on a1v a Vita headed ‘mores Virgilii', incipit: ‘Virgilius fuit filius Maronis natus . . .'; ending with a distich: ‘Cedite rhomani scriptores cedite grai | Nescio quid maius nascitur iliade' (Prop. 3. 32. 65), Baehrens IV 158; see Schaller 2059. On the same page a note: ‘Interea ergo Virgilii scribentis Bucolica et sub iocundis(?) uerbis . . .' On the front pastedown a bookseller's pencilled number ‘3982/3838'. Provenance: Würzburg, Bavaria, Augustinian Hermits, S. Georgius(?); suggested provenance on the basis of the evidence of the extracted rubricated fragments; see T‑132(2) and M‑299. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 3675; paper label at the tail of the spine; purchased for £0. 6. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 29. SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf. 1.47