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VIRGIL (70-19 BC). Codex antiquissimus a Rufio Turcio Apronio V.C. distinctus et emendatus qui nunc Florentiae in Bibliotheca Mediceo-Laurentiana adservatur. Edited by Pier Francesco Foggini (1713-63). Florence: Domenico Maria Manni, 1741.
4o (210 x 155 mm). Collation: 12 (half-title, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette) 2-34 (2/1 engraved dedication inserted as frontispiece, 2/2r editor's introduction); 44 56 64 76(-2) 84 96(-2) 104 116(-2) 12-134 146(-6) 154 166(-4) 17-184 196(-4) 20-214 226(-2) 23-244 256(-3) 26-274 286(-4) 29-314 326(-5) 33-354 366(-6) 37-384 396(-3) 40-414 426(-5) 43-444 456(-4) 46-484 496(-5) 50-524 536(-6) 54-564 (Bucolics, Georgics, Aeneid); 574 586 (editor's notes). PRINTED ON VELLUM in red and black (red first). Type fount cast by Manni to imitate the 5th-century codex's majuscules. (Some pages discolored.) Contemporary vellum, red edges, (one of the two leather hasps missing). Cloth fall-down-back box, gilt-lettered red morocco spine-strip. Provenance: Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. (cat. 216).
THE EARLIEST TYPOGRAPHICAL FACSIMILE OF AN ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT. The Medicean Codex of Virgil, written by Turcius Rufius Asterius in 494, is one of the oldest complete Latin manuscripts extant and among the most important survivals of classical literature. With the Vatican codices it forms the basis of our knowledge of the Aeneid and other Virgilian texts. The uncials were specially cut by Manni for Foggini's facsimile edition, including small characters to reproduce interlinear corrections. The irregular collation, with 16 cancelled folios, perhaps follows the original. ONE OF ABOUT TWELVE SURVIVING COPIES ON VELLUM. Van Praet, Vélins du Roi IV, 80.99; Birrell & Garnett 128.
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THE EARLIEST TYPOGRAPHICAL FACSIMILE OF AN ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT. The Medicean Codex of Virgil, written by Turcius Rufius Asterius in 494, is one of the oldest complete Latin manuscripts extant and among the most important survivals of classical literature. With the Vatican codices it forms the basis of our knowledge of the Aeneid and other Virgilian texts. The uncials were specially cut by Manni for Foggini's facsimile edition, including small characters to reproduce interlinear corrections. The irregular collation, with 16 cancelled folios, perhaps follows the original. ONE OF ABOUT TWELVE SURVIVING COPIES ON VELLUM. Van Praet, Vélins du Roi IV, 80.99; Birrell & Garnett 128.