VERGILIUS MARO, Publius (70-19 B.C.). Opera. Commentary by Servius, Donatus, Christophorus Landinus and Domenicus Calderinus. With the 13th Book added to the Aeneid by Mapheus Vegius. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1492.
VERGILIUS MARO, Publius (70-19 B.C.). Opera. Commentary by Servius, Donatus, Christophorus Landinus and Domenicus Calderinus. With the 13th Book added to the Aeneid by Mapheus Vegius. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1492.

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VERGILIUS MARO, Publius (70-19 B.C.). Opera. Commentary by Servius, Donatus, Christophorus Landinus and Domenicus Calderinus. With the 13th Book added to the Aeneid by Mapheus Vegius. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1492.

Super-chancery 2° (301x213mm). Collation: π8 a-h8 i-k6 l10 m-z & 8 A-N8 O6 P-Q8 R6 S8 (π1 blank, π2r dedicatory letter to Petrus Medici by Landinus, π4r index, π6r life of Vergil, a1r Bucolica, S8 blank). 354 leaves. 62 lines of commentary and headline. Type: 22:108 (text), 23:75 (commentary). 2- to 6-line initial spaces, some with printed guide-letters. (Light browning, some tears, mostly marginal including wormholes in inner margin of a few leaves, marginal dampstains.) C 6070; BMC II, 436 (IB. 7441); Goff V-188; Polain(B) 3963.

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VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius (fl. 14-30 A.D.). Factorum et Dictorum memorabilium. N.p., n.d.

2°. Collation: A6 B8 C-R6 S4 T-V6 (A1. title, A1. preface, A2. Liber primus incipit). 118 leaves only (lacks all after V4). Gothic type, leaded. (Light browning, some leaves dampstained, a few tears, mostly marginal.)

Two works bound in one volume. Early wooden boards backed with blindstamped pigskin, (slightly worn, lacks clasps). Provenance: numerous gloss in contemporary and later hands, with annotations on first blank leaf of Vergil and on back paste-down.

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