Opera.
Virgil.
Jenson, Nicolas,approximately 1420-1480,printer.
Vegio, Maffeo,1406 or 1407-1458.Aeneidos liber XIII.
Hamilton, William,active 1733,bookseller.StEdNL
Mosman, Hugh,active 1734,binder.StEdNL
[Venice] : Per Nicolaum Ienson Gallicum.,
.M.CCCC.LXXV. [1475]
Two issues are known: (A) C 6015, dated 1475, and (B) C 6020, with the last line of the colophon reset and the date altered to 1476--Davies & Goldfinch.
Title and imprint from colophon.
Folios [1-2] and [70] are blank.
Decimvs tertivs liber Mafei Vaegii Lavdensis follows the text of the Aeneid.
Includes: Hortulus. De vino et Venere. De livore. Sirenarum. De die natali. De fortuna. De Orpheo. De se ipso. De aetatibus animalium. De ludo. De aerumnis Herculis. De Musarum inventis. Elegia in Maecenatis obitu. De speculo. Mira Vergilii versus experientis. Mira Vergilii experientis. De quattuor temporibus anni. De ortu solis. De Herculis laboribus. De littera Y. De signis caelestibus. Moretum. Priapea. Copa. Est et non. Vir bonus. Rosae. Culex. Dirae. Aetna. Ciris. Catalecton. Donatus: Vita Vergilii. Ovidius: Versus. Alcimus: Versus de Vergilio. Cornelius Gallus: Versus de Aeneide. Octavius Augustus: Versus pro Vergilii Aeneide. Epitaphia virorum illustrium. Summa Vergilianae narrationis--Davies & Goldfinch.
Colophon: P.V. Maronis Opera foeliciter finivnt Venetiis insignita per Nicolavm Ienson Gallicvm. M.CCCC.LXXV.
Signatures: [1¹⁰ 2¹² 3-6¹⁰ 7⁸ 8-12¹⁰ 13¹⁰¹ 14-19⁸·¹² 20⁸ 21¹²⁻¹ 22¹⁰ 23-25¹⁰ 26-27⁸].
BM 15th cent. gives signature [21] as [x¹²⁻¹]; Bodleian Lib. 15th cent. gives this signature as [x¹⁰¹].
34 lines to a page. Type 115 (111) R. Capital spaces with guide-letters.
Extensive annotation in early hand of the first four books of the Aeneid.
Partially rubricated.
ISTC
Goff
GW
Copinger
Davies & Goldfinch
BN cat. des incun.,
BM 15th cent.,
Bodleian Lib. 15th cent.,
BSB-Ink
Proctor
IGI
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Bought by the Advocates Library from William Hamilton for £1-5-0  and paid on 31 December 1733.
In full leather by Hugh Mosman 1736.
Latin poetry
Italy Venice.