Publii Uirgilii maronis opera
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Type of record: Book
Title: Publii Uirgilii maronis opera
Other titles: Collected works
Classmark: BC For C16 quarto VIR
Creator(s): Virgil
Additional creator(s): Brant, Sebastian (1458-1521) (Other); Servius (Other); Donatus, Aelius (Other); Landino, Cristoforo (1424-1504) (Other); Mancinelli, Antonio (1452-1505) (Other); Calderini, Domizio (1478) (Other); Vegio, Maffeo (1458) (Other)
Publisher: [Johann Grüninger]
Publication city: [Strasbourg]
Date(s): [1502]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 6 unnumbered pages, ccccvii [i. e. ccccix], xxxiiii leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/299436
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991004030409705181
Description
Panzer, VI, 27, no. 12. Schmidt, I, 60. Muther 557. Kristeller: Strassburger Bücher-Illustration, 99 and p. 32 ff.
Roman, Gothic and Greek type (Proctor 9888); 31-34 lines of text, 71-74 lines of commentary. Title printed in red. With colophon. Publisher's device (Heitzd Alsace, I, 1) on f. xxxiiiia at end.
Several folios wrongly numbered.
Edited by Sebastian Brant, with the commentaries of Servius Maurus Honoratus, Aelius Donatus, Cristoforo Landino, Antonio Mancinelli and Domizio Calderini, and the thirteenth book of the Aeneid by Maffeo Vegio.
Illustrations: 214 woodcuts, comprising one on the t.-p., 10 for the Eclogues, 39 for the Georgics, 143 for the Aeneid, and 21 for the miscellaneous poems at the end. Many ornamental and historiated initials (Jennings, p. 47, 160). The illustrations to the Georgics depict the daily life and occupations of the 17th century Alsatian farmer, and all the cuts were apparently inspired by Sebastian Brant.
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