Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Opera.
Call Number
Oversize 2945.1470q
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/2b88qh52c
Publisher
[Venice] : Vindelinus de Spira, 1470.
Language
Latin
Date Created
1470
Extent
161 leaves (the last two blank) ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Provenance
VRG copy is from the Sunderland Library.
VRG copy has booklabels of Brayton Ives., no. 1028, and Junius Spencer Morgan.
References
Goff V-150
BM 15th cent., V, p. 154 (IB.19525b)
Copinger 6003
Sunderland, C. S. Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana 13041
Ives, B. Catalogue of the collection of books and manuscripts belonging to Mr. Brayton Ives no. 1028 (p. 292-293, with illustration of title page)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
New York Times, Sept. 30, 1891, p. 9, records John Pierce, NY bookseller, purchased this lot at Ives auction for $3000 and subsequently sold it to Junius Spencer Morgan.
Gathering: [16]
No. of lines varies; type 1 (cf. Haebler); printed in black.
Leaf 1a: Publii Virgilii maronis bucolicorum Liber incipit: Aegloga prima Tityrus & melibeus: Titye tu pauvlae recubans sub tegmine fagi Siluestrem tenui musam meditaris auena. Ends, leaf 161b, l. 11: .M.CCCC.LXX.
First dated edition; printed on parchment.
VRG copy has initials and decorations illuminated red, blue, green and gold.
Binding Note
VRG copy in later red goatskin with French fillet and outer dentelles in gold; marbled endpapers; in dark blue goatskin pull-off case.

Discovery Information

Physical Characteristics

File Count
324

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d562c260-3722-4f4e-9e24-536fb99a9f2c/manifest