[Opera].

Accession number: 
PML 16169
Author: 
Virgil.
Published: 
Venice : Jacobus Rubeus, January 14[75/76]
Description: 
[284] leaves ; 34.5 x 24.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf [29]/9r: Omnia Haec Volumina: Quae Virgilius Maro Vates Eminentissimus Composuit Una Cum Servii Honorati Grammatici Commentariis Ac Eiusdem Poetae Vita Mira Quadam Arte Ac Diligentia Impressa Sunt Venetiis Per Jacobum Rubeum Natione Gallicum. Anno Domini .M.CCCC.LXXV. Mense Januarii. Petro Mozanigo Inclyto Duce Venetiarum.
On the date, which reads M.CCCC.LXXY in most copies, but also M.CCCC.LXXX (see R 357), see D.E. Rhodes, in The Library, 5th ser., 30 (1975), p.189. For variants, cf. also CIBN.
Printed in types 1:110R and 2:80R.
Collation: [1-9¹⁰ 10⁸ 11-14¹⁰ 15-16⁸ 17-24¹⁰; 25-29¹⁰]: 284 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [29]/10 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
Includes: Hortulus. De vino et Venere. De livore. De cantu Sirenarum. De die natali. De fortuna. De Orpheo. De se ipso. De aetatibus animalium. De ludo. De aerumnis Herculis. De Musarum inventis. Elegia in Maecenatis obitu. De speculo. Mira Vergilii versus experientia. Mira Vergilii experientia. De quattuor temporibus anni. De ortu solis. De Herculis laboribus. De littera Y. De signis caelestibus. Priapea. Copa. Est et non. Vir bonus. Rosae. Culex. Dirae. Aetna. Ciris. Catalecton. Moretum. Donatus, Vita Vergilii. Ovidius, Versus. Alcimus, Versus de Vergilio. Cornelius Gallus, Versus de Aeneide. Epitaphia virorum illustrium. Summa Vergilianae narrationis.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33.2 x 23 cm.

Binding: 
Modern quarter brown goatskin with paper sides over wooden boards (34.5 x 24.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Illuminated Italian white vine initials, a few gold initials on red/blue/green ground, and alternating red and blue minor initials. Annotations: Contemporary alpha-numeric quire signatures and catchwords. Inscription: "Quirini esto" (leaf [1]/1r). Headlines in Bucolica only. Bottom margin of leaf [1]/2 replaced.

Provenance: 
Unidentified shelf mark: A IV, on light blue paper (front pastedown, preserved from former binding); Edward Davenport, armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Bernard Quaritch (note by Belle Greene on rear pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Aug. 1909.
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