Bod-Inc: V-115

Vergilius Maro, Publius

Bucolica I–IX [Italian] (trans. Evangelista Fossa).

 

Analysis of Content

a1r [Title-page.] ‘Bucholicha Vulgare de Virgilio composta per el clarissimo poeta Frate Euangelista Fossa de Cremona del ordinie di Serui', With woodcut; see Sander and Essling.

a1v Fossa Cremonensis, Evangelista: Egloga [addressed to] Philippo Cavatia OSM. ‘Colocutori Frate Raimondo et Frate Euangelista Fossa'. G. M. Besutti, ‘Repertori e sussidi generali. Edizioni del secolo XV (1476-1500)', in Bibliografia dell'Ordine dei Servi, Bibliotheca Servorum Romandiolae, 4 (Bologna, 1971), 69-212, at 131-2, no. 1, with full text of the eclogue; see DBI XLIX 477.

a2v [Vergilius Maro, Publius: Bucolica [Italian], here addressed to] Philippo Cavatia. ‘Egloga. Interlocutori Melibeo et Titiro amici'. Incipit: ‘[T]ityro tu te ne staila sotto a un fago | Cantando quiui alumbra a questo lago'; tercets.

f6r [Colophon.]

f6r ‘Registro'.

Imprint

Imprint: Venice: Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello, for Johannes Antonius de Legnano, 20 Dec. 1494. 4°.

Collation

Collation: a–b⁸ c–e⁴ f⁶.

Illustrations: Woodcut; woodcut initials.

References

ISTC: iv00217500

Hain: C 6140;

BMC: BMC V 469;

Proctor: Pr 5230;

Others: BSB‑Ink V‑102; Copinger, ‘Incunabula Virgiliana', 144; Davies–Goldfinch 150; Essling 54; C. Kallendorf, A Bibliography of Renaissance Italian Translations of Virgil, Biblioteca di Bibliografia Italiana, 136 (Florence, 1994), 6; Mambelli 995; Sander 7641; Sheppard 4311. Microfiche: Unit 2: Classics in Translation: Part I, CT 118.

LCN: 14694908

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