Bod-Inc: V-113
Vergilius Maro, Publius
Bucolica (with commentary).
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.] ‘Bucolica P Virgilii Maronis cum commento familiarissimo'.
a1v ‘Vita Maronis'. Incipit: ‘Sicut dicit Servius super Enaeidem . . .’
a2r [Vergilius Maro, Publius: Bucolica.] Verg. Ecl. On the transmission of Bucolica and Georgica see V‑072.
a2r ‘Commentum familiarissimum'. Incipit: ‘Construe sic: “O Tityre”, id est Virgili . . .’ expl: ‘caetera uideantur super textum’ Campbell and Polain wrongly identified the commentary as that of Hermannus Torrentinus. For the title see colophon. The commentary alternates with the text.
h3v [Colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: Deventer: Richard Pafraet, 5 May 1498. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–h8.4.
References
ISTC: iv00212500
Hain: C 6134;
BMC: BMC IX 59;
Proctor: Pr 9017;
Others: BSB‑Ink V‑97; Campbell–Kronenberg 1739; Copinger, ‘Incunabula Virgiliana', 138; Davies–Goldfinch 141; HPT II 409; ILC 2160; Mambelli 680; Sack, Freiburg, 3646; Polain 3969; Sheppard 6950.
LCN: 14694971
Copies
Copy number: V-113(1)
Wanting leaves f1 and f4. Leaves g3–4 cropped.
Binding: Nineteenth-century marbled paper boards; bound for Kloß.
Size: 202 × 149 × 11 mm.
Size of leaf: 193 × 140 mm.
Frequent marginal notes in brown or red ink in contemporary Netherlandish hands, mainly providing paraphrases of the Vergilian text, ‘argumenta', pen-trials, and scribbles. A few notes in a sixteenth-century hand, providing notes on some personal names.
Provenance: Ibenstadt, Hesse, Premonstratensians, 1652; inscription on a1v: ‘Pro conuentu Ilbenstadiens a[nn]o 1652'; bought from convent by Frater Johannes Feldt Storitius (fl. 1652); inscription on same page: ‘F[rater] Jo[hann]es Feldt Storitius a[nn]o 1652'. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 3676; purchased for £0. 2. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 28.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf. 1.45.
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