P. Virgilii Maronis opera. Mauri Seruii Honorati grammatici in eadem commentarii, ex antiquis exemplaribus suæ integritati restituti. Index eorum quæ à Seruio explicantur, ita copiosus vt vel Dictionarii instar esse possit. Castigationes & varietates Virgilianae lectionis, per Ioannem Pierium Valerianum.
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1532
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3187967
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 pts. ([12], 1-94 [i.e. 96], 95-707, [63]; 176, 183-205, [25] p.) ; fol. Two parts in one. Pencil title on first free endpaper. Manuscript annotation in Greek, p. 131. Three early initials partly illuminated. Provenance: titlepage inscribed at head: Sevúco Blyenbuxgÿo omi Duxdreclysi [?] Ao. 1.6.0.8.; and at foot of page: Adriani Blÿenbuxgÿ [?]. Shugborough Anson bookplate pasted over in repair. Binding: seventeenth-century vellum; blind tooled centrepiece ornament; rebacked (nineteenth-century[?]); five raised bands; gold lettered black spine labels.
Makers and roles
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 BC) Servius (fl.4th century) Giovanni Pierio Valeriano Bolzani (1477-1558)