Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Opera.
Call Number
VRG 2945.1470.2q
MICROFILM 7551
Identifier
ark:/88435/x920g232k
Publisher
[Paris : Ulrich Gering, Michael Friburger, and Martin Crantz, about 1472]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1472
Format
Book
Extent
1 v. ; 31 cm. (leaf, 29 x 20 cm.)
References
Goff V-155
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Title and imprint from Goff.
Sig.: a⁶, b-d⁵, e⁴, f⁶, g-h⁵, j-u⁵, no catchwords.
32 lines to a page; type 2 (cf. Haebler); printed in black.
Leaf [1a]: Publii Virgilii maronis mantuani uatis clarissimi Bucolica & Aegloga prima fœliciter incipit. l. [8]: Tityre tu patule recuba[n]s sub tegmine fagi: Siluestrem tenui musa[m] meditaris auena. Leaf [50b], l.[3]: Primus habet. lybica[n] ueniu[n]t ut troes in urbern. Edocet excidium troiae clademq[ue] secundus. Colophon, leaf [108b] l.[31]: Finit exclamatio caesaris in Virgilii uotum.
Mortet (VRG 2945.823)
No signatures or catchwords.
VRG copy has initials illuminated in gold, red and blue.
VRG copy contains ms. notes.
VRG copy imperfect: leaf [22], all leaves after leaf [209] wanting; back free endpaper is a stub.
Binding Note
VRG copy in old plain leather or parchment over wooden boards; covering of spine is gone; each board has more than one hundred worm-holes, some of which go throught the boards and through the parchment pastedowns; these worm-holes, however, do not continue into the text block; evidence of former caches and clasps at fore-edge; in blue cloth clamshell box.

Discovery Information

Physical Characteristics

File Count
424

Institutional Information

Collection
In Principio: Europe's First Printers, 1450-1470
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5935ac62-c935-4963-a846-ba3f9ad6c13b/manifest