Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Opera.
Call Number
VRG 2945.1469q
Identifier
ark:/88435/6395wc43z
Publisher
Rome : In domo Petri de Maximo [Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz], 28 Feb. 1469.
Language
Latin
Date Created
1469
Format
Book
Extent
196 leaves ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Provenance
VRG copy has booklabels of James Toovey, of Burnham Abbey, Bucks., and Junius Spencer Morgan.
VRG copy has armorial bookplate of the Earl of Hopetoun.
References
Copinger 5999
Graesse
Goff V-149
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Edited by Johannes Andreae, Bishop of Aleria.
Gathering: [28]
38 lines to a page; early Roman type; printed in black.
VRG copy has initials illuminated in blue, pink, green and gold.
VRG copy contains a few ms. notes.
VRG copy imperfect: the Priapeia, 6 leaves at end, wanting.
VRG copy has newspaper clipping from the Morning Post, Feb. 29, 1889, tipped in: Lord Hopetoun's library ... The most expensive book ... was a first edition of Virgil, printed at Rome, 1469; only six copies of this edition can be traced, and these are in public libraries. Mr. Toovey purchased this folio for £590."
Binding Note
VRG copy in later black goatskin with French fillet and small corner ornaments in gold; spine tooled in gold; red goatskin spine label lettered in gold; red marbled endpapers; in red straight-grain goatskin pull-off-top box.

Discovery Information

Physical Characteristics

File Count
402

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6eb46f3f-b10b-4df5-93cf-793c94d9e577/manifest