VERGILIUS MARO, Publius Publij Virgilij Maro(n)is opera [ed. Sebastian Brant]. 28 Aug. 1502Strasburg,Johann Grüninger,folio, old blindstamped leather over wood (rebacked), bevelled edges, cover with circular and lozenge-shaped stamps (i.a....
Estimation :
4000 / 5000
Adjudication :
7500 €
Description
two-headed eagle), modern endpapers, [6]-CCCCVII (= 410), XXXIIII ff. (lacking V5-6 = ff. 151-152, supplied in xerox copies bound with; somewhat stained and soiled, tear in 1st and last f. underlaid, tear in CC8, some old marg. repairs with loss to a few letters in bottom corner of a2). Good copy.
One of the great German woodcut books of the Renaissance, the masterpiece of the artist known as the "Late Master of the Grüninger Workshop". Ill. with large woodcut ills on title and approx. 210 other woodcuts, some full-page and one double-page (a few touched with amateur early colour). Sebastian Brant was commissioned by the publisher to edit the work and based his commentary on that of Cristoforo Landino, adding several poems not in earlier editions of Vergil, as well as "Book 13" of the "Aeneid" by Maffeo Vegio (1407-1458). Large "grotesque" initials at the start of each "Book". Woodcut mark at the end. Title in red and black. Text of Vergil within double cols with commentary in smaller type. Contemp. marg. ms. notes to "Eclogues" and "Aeneid 4". Old ownership entries on title, Liesborn and A2r, "ex libris petri Briconneti ex dono Jacobi Minatij Legum doctoris".
One of the great German woodcut books of the Renaissance, the masterpiece of the artist known as the "Late Master of the Grüninger Workshop". Ill. with large woodcut ills on title and approx. 210 other woodcuts, some full-page and one double-page (a few touched with amateur early colour). Sebastian Brant was commissioned by the publisher to edit the work and based his commentary on that of Cristoforo Landino, adding several poems not in earlier editions of Vergil, as well as "Book 13" of the "Aeneid" by Maffeo Vegio (1407-1458). Large "grotesque" initials at the start of each "Book". Woodcut mark at the end. Title in red and black. Text of Vergil within double cols with commentary in smaller type. Contemp. marg. ms. notes to "Eclogues" and "Aeneid 4". Old ownership entries on title, Liesborn and A2r, "ex libris petri Briconneti ex dono Jacobi Minatij Legum doctoris".
