P. Virgilii Maronis Opera omnia: :. Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneis; Ciris et Culex: cum commentario Frid. Taubmanni. curante & edente Christiano Taubmanno, Frid. f. Additi sunt indices necessarii.
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1618
Materials
Place of origin
Wittenberg
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3194004
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 1064, [80], 72, [24], 147, [31] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 4to. Running number: 5068. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "η'." [i.e. eta' = Greek number 8]. Manuscript number (price?) on front fly-leaf: "-14-". Manuscript inscription on title page (partially cut out): "Sum ... [name cut out] Lunaburgensis". With some manuscript marginal annotations and underscoring of text in the Georgica. Binding: seventeenth-century mottled calf (rubbed and worn due to the delamination of the surface of the leather); wood boards; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 BC) Christian Taubmann (1597-1651) Friedrich Taubmann (1565-1613)