Item Summary

Virgil's Aeneis (books I-IX) and Bucolica.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Aeneis] ; Buccolica / [Virgil].
Call Number
Princeton MS. 38
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cf95jn082
Publisher
[Florence, Italy], [between 1400 and 1444]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1400-1444
Extent
131 leaves : paper ; 287 x 215 (200 x 95-110) mm bound to 294 x 232 mm.
Provenance
Uncertain early provenance and unknown intermediate provenance. Sir Thomas Phillipps acquired the manuscript around 1830 from the Parisian booksellers De Bure. Sold from his collection in 1896. It went via Bernard Quaritch to Junius Spencer Morgan, Class of 1988, of Princeton, New Jersey. Morgan donated the manuscript to the Princeton University Library, where it was accessioned in July 1899 as no. 118253.
Source Acquisition
Gift; Junius Spencer Morgan, 1899.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 218-220.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1r-118v: [Aeneid]
2. fol. 199r-130v: Buccolica Virgilii.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Titles supplied by cataloger and taken from the explicit.
Many interlinear and marginal notes and glosses.
Incipit: [Aeneis] “[A]rma uirumque cano troie qui primus ab oris, Italiam fato profugus Lauinaque uenit…” -- [Buccolica Virgilii] “[T]itire tu, patule, recubans sub tegmine fagi, Siluestrem tenui musam meditaris auena…”
Explicit: [Aeneis] “Accepit uenientem, ac mollibus extulit undis, Et letum sociis abluta cede remisit.” -- [Buccolica Virgilii] “Iuniperi grauis umbra nocent et frugibus umbre, Ite domum sature uenit Hesperus ite capelle. Explicit buccolica virgilii. Qui scripsit scribat semper cum domino uiuat.”
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 131 + i ; catchwords (quires 1-6) ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 28-34 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Written by several hands ; manicules ; watermarks (balance, horn, trois monts).
Binding Note
Later binding. England, 19th century. Half calf and pasteboard covered in gray paper; sewn on 5 cords, with light blue and brown endbands. Formerly in a binding with two clasps on the fore-edge.

Discovery Information

Subject
Aeneas (Legendary character)—Poetry
Pastoral poetry, Latin—Early works to 1800
Latin poetry—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Italy—Ferrara
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
Epic poetry
Pastoral poetry
Poetry
Manicules
Headbands
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
270

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0473a22e-9325-41f7-b398-c5025518aa3d/manifest