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Opera, [edited by Paulus Manutius], 1572

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Record ID cp013103
Voet reference number 2452
Museum Plantin-Moretus
Author Publius VIRGILIUS MARO
Title page transcription OPERA ‖ P. VIRGILII ‖ MARONIS. ‖ PAVLI MANVTII annotationes breuissimæ in ‖ margine adscriptæ. ‖ HOMERI loca magis insignia, quæ Virgilius ‖ imitatus est. ‖ GEORGII FABRICII Chemnicensis obser- ‖ uationes Virgilianæ lectionis. ‖ ⊕ 20 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini ‖ Prototypographi Regij. ‖ CIƆ.IƆ.LXXII.
Collation 8⁰ [128]: *⁸, a-y⁸, aa-mm⁸, oo-pp⁸; pages [1-16], 1-455 (= for 565, but in fact 549), [550-576] (Errors: 34 for 39, 68 numbered in wrong corner, 48 for 76, 353 for 253, 181 for 281, 303 not numbered; 353-368 omitted, meaning that from 369 onwards numeration too high by 16 units; 461 for 491, 461-462-463-464-455 for 561-562-563-564-565)
Fingerprint 157208 - # a1 *2 $da : # a2 *5 erb - # 1b1 a s : # 1b2 y5 ericul - # 2b1 2a ia$ : # 2b2 2m5 texerat$ - # 3b1 2o ct : # 3b2 2p4 $&$b
Number of sheets 37
Pages [1]: Title [2]: Blank [34]: Christoph. Plantinus lectori signed by (Antwerp, 15 March 1572; italic type) [5-6]: Ad Torquatum Bembum, Petri F. Pauli Manutii in Virgilium praefatio (Venice, 1555) [7-16]: P. Virgilii Maronis vita, per Aelium Donatum, ut creditur edita (parts in italic type, words in greek type) 1-455 (= for 565, but in fact 549): Text (each book preceded by an 'argumentum' and some followed by 'observationes'; italic type, parts and marginals in roman type, words in greek type) [550-571]: Index (on two columns) [571-572]: Table (on two columns; italic type, parts in roman type) [573]: Blank [574]: ANTVERPIÆ ‖ EXCVDEBAT CHRISTOPHORVS ‖ PLANTINVS PROTOTYPOGRAPHVS ‖ REGIVS ANNO CIƆ.IƆ.LXXII. XVI. ‖ KAL. IVNII [575-576]: Blank
Edition information
Copies Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 625Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience AntwerpCambridge.
Bibliographical references Not in Ruelens-de BackerCockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 7063
Online bibliographical references STCV c:stcv:12925750USTC 405731
Note 1 Reprint of the 1565/1566 edition (cf. preceding no.), but this time in one publication with continuing pagination: Bucolica (pages 1-30); Georgica (pages 31-103) with 'In Georgica Virgilii annotationes, magnam partem ex doctorum virorum scriptis collectae' (pages 103-108); Aeneidis (pages 109-457), with 'Observationes G. Fabrici' (on books I-IV: pages 206-211, with on page 211 a note 'Ad lectorem'; on books V-VIII: pages 321-324; on books IX-XII: pages 458-465); P. Virgilii Maronis aliorumque poetarum opuscula, sive lusus (pages 466-455 [= for 549]).
Note 2 Plantin's foreword to the reader, pages [3-4], is identical to the one in the 1565/66-edition, but the date has been changed from 1 December 1565 into 15 March 1572.
Note 3 According to the colophon the printing was finished on 17 May 1572.
Note 4 Listed in M 296, folio 19v ([Virgilius Manutii etc.] Idem, in 8⁰, An⁰ -, f[euilles] 37, [price:] stuivers 6).
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