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Vergilius cum commentariis quinque : uidelicet Seruii, Landini., Ant. Mancinelli, Donati, Domitii

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Type of record: Book

Title: Vergilius cum commentariis quinque : uidelicet Seruii, Landini., Ant. Mancinelli, Donati, Domitii

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Incunabula VIR

Creator(s): Virgil

Additional creator(s): Servius (Commentator); Landino, Cristoforo (1424-1504) (Commentator); Calderino, Domizio (1447-1478) (Commentator); Donatus, Aelius (Commentator); Scotto, Ottaviano (1498) (Publisher); Giunta, Luca-Antonio (1457-1538) (Publisher); Zanis, Bartholomaeus de de Portesio (1486-1515) (Printer); Hoskin, H.C (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)

Publisher: per Bartolomeu[m] de Zanis de Portesio; Bartholomaeus de Zanis, for Octavianus Scotus and Lucantonio Giunta

Publication city: Impressum Venetiis [Venice]

Date(s): Sub anno domini.M.cccc.xciii.die Vltimo Iulii. [31 July 1493]

Language: Latin

Size and medium: 6 unnumbered pages, 360 leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/106302

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008154189705181

Collection group(s): Incunabula

Description

Signatures: a⁶ b-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-V⁸.


Imprint from colophon.


Colophon on V8r reads: Impressum Venetiis per Bartolomeu[m] de Zanis de Portesio. Sub anno domini.M.cccc.xciii. die Vltimo Iulii.


Some copies have the device of Lucantonio Giunta in place of that of Octavianus Scotus.


Printed with 62 lines of commentary surrounding the text.


Texts typographically distinguished from surrounding commentaries.


Printed running titles, marginal notabilia and foliation.


Ornamental woodcut initials of different sizes throughout.


Some initial spaces with guide-letters.


Printer's mark on V8r with the monogram OSM.


Contents: Bucolica and Georgica, with argumenta (comm. Servius, Landinus and Mancinellus); Aeneis, with argumenta (comm. Servius, Donatus, and Landinus). Also: Liber XIII Aeneidos/ Mapheus Vegius. 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. 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. Elegia in Maecenatis obitu; Copa; Est et non; Vir bonus; Rosae; Culex; Dirae; Aetna; Ciris (all with commentaries of Domitius Calderinus). Catalecton. Moretum. Antonius Mancinellus: liminary letter. Christophorus Landinus: Proemia. Donatus: Vita Vergilii. Alcimus: Versus de Vergilio. Cornelius Gallus: Versus de Aeneide. Epitaphia Vergilii. Ovidius: Versus. Summa Vergilianae narrationis.


Indexed in: ISTC no. iv00189000.


Indexed in: References: Goff V189; Oates 2081; Proctor 5329; BMC V 432; C 6072; C(IVir) 79; Kallendorf 32; Mambelli 72; Pell Ms 11643; CIBN V-137; IGI 10222; IBP 5556; IBE 6127; Günt(L) 3859; Hubay(Augsburg) 2095; Borm 2727; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 1830.

Features

Marginal annotations in black ink manuscript, late fifteenth- or sixteenth-century, especially in books VIIII, X and XI.


There are notes in pencil manuscript on the recto of the first front flyleaf in the hand of H.C. Hoskins giving details of the edition and the comment: Rare. The largest woodcuts are pleasing and the greek neat and carefully cut.


Bindings


Eighteenth-century binding of full marbled brown calf over pasteboard. The spine has six raised bands and in the second panel is a pared red leather lettering piece gold-tooled with an ornamental border and containing the words: Virgilius Servii 1493. The other panels are gold-tooled with a central flower spray motif surrounded by flowers, leaves and stars. The pastedowns are of marbled paper featuring the comb pattern in red, orange, green, blue and cream. The leaf edges are mottled red and blue. Size: 322 x 228mm. Leaf size: 310 x210mm.

Provenance

Written in black ink manuscript at the head of the recto of the first front flyleaf are an autograph and date: H.C. Hoskin Feb. 1903.


Written in black ink manuscript at the head of the recto of the first front flyleaf: Olschki fr. 300.


Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.

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