[Opera].

Accession number:

PML 281

Author:

Virgil.

Published:

Venice : Vindelinus de Spira, .M.CCCC.LXX [1470].

Description:

[162] leaves ; 32.5 x 21 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon (leaf [16]/8v): Progenitus spira formis monumenta maronis / Hec vindelinus scripsit apud venetos. / Laudent ergo alii polycletos parrhasiosue / Et quosuis alios id genus artifices. / Ingenuas quisquis musarum diligit artes / In primis ipsum laudibus afficiet. / Nec vero tantum quia multa volumina: quantu[m] / Q[uam] perpulchra simul optimaq[ue] exhibeat. .M.CCCC.LXX.
Printed in type 1:110R.
Collation: [1¹² 2-7¹⁰ 8¹² 9-11¹⁰ 12¹² 13-14¹⁰ 15-16⁸]: 162 leaves, leaves [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Median folio.
PML copy on vellum, dimensions: 31.5 x 20.8 cm, trimmed.
PML copy wants 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).

Binding:

19th-century English blind-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (32.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Plain vellum pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Illuminated white vine border with cornucopiae and putti (leaf [1]/2r, top edge trimmed) and initials by Giovanni Vendramin of Padua (ex-info Lilian Armstrong); rubricated, blue lombards with manuscript quide letters and pink rubrics. Annotations: Minimal contemporary Latin and Greek marginal notations throughout, many trimmed. Later running headlines in Aeneid and foliation in bottom corner.

Provenance:

Colalto family of Venice, illumianted armorial (leaf [1]/2r); unidetified mark/inscription, abraded (leaf [16]/8v); Bernard Quaritch, unnumbered list "Exhibition of Books & Mss by Bernard Quaritch of London" (Jan. 1891), no. 43 for £750/$3750, brought to US by Alfred Quaritch and sold to: Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), price code: aeex, purchased from Quaritch, Sept. 1891; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Vellum printings (Printing)

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Retrospective bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books