Lot no. 58
VIRGILE. Opera vergiliana docte et familiariter exposita. - Æneis vergiliana cum Servii Honorati grammatici huberrimis commentariis. Lyon, Jacques Sacon, 1517. 2 volumes in an in-folio volume, fawn basane on wooden boards (Binding of the period). Remarkable illustrated post-incunabulum published in Lyon.
Virgil's works, printed in round letters, are framed by commentaries and notes by Josse Bade, Servius, Donat, Beroaldo and others, printed in smaller type. Josse Bade's Virgil was originally published in Paris in 1500-1501; the text did not appear in the first edition published by Jacques Sacon in 1499.
The illustration consists of a fine architectural frame on the title, a full-page frontispiece showing Virgil and the muse Calliope among other characters on the second leaf, and around 200 woodcuts in the text, half- or third-page, taken from Sébastien Brandt's Virgil, printed in Strasbourg in 1502 by Johann Grüninger.
A complete copy of the second part, containing the Aeneid, which is often missing.
Missing 7 ff. (†2, i7, AA5, BB6, CC8, LL6, QQ5). Worn binding with lacks, accidents and epidermis, spine split in two, title roughly restored, repair to last leaf, foxing and wetness, marginal wormhole.
Baudrier, XII, 291 - Gültlingen, I, 244:169 - Mortimer, n°537 - Adams, V-468.
See original version (French) Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
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