Bucolica et Georgica et Aeneis. Ex. Cod Mediceo-Laurentiano descripta…
[VIRGIL]. P. VIRGILII MARONIS.
Bucolica et Georgica et Aeneis. Ex. Cod Mediceo-Laurentiano descripta…
Rome: Joannes Zempel, 1763-5
Folio (280 x 410mm), 3 vols; in contemporary diced Russia, bordered in gilt with Greek key pattern; neatly rebacked; two contrasting green morocco labels lettered in gilt to spine; five raised bands, bordered in gilt; with gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers and yellow edges; red ribbon markers; Collation [a6], b-h4, l6, [plate], A-Z4, Aa4-Cc6; [a4], b4-g6, [plate], A-Z4, Aa-Tt4; [a4], b-c4, A-Z4, Aa-Rr4, Ss6, Tt6; indexes at end of each volume; printed in Latin, with occasional Greek; title pages in red and black with roundell portraits of Virgil, Tiberius [?] and Caesar Augustus; each volume with full page engraved frontis by Marco Carloni, Francesco Barbazza and Ignazio Benedetti respectively; additionally illustrated with 147 in-text engravings including headpieces, tailpieces and chapter headings, two hors text, mounted on guards, as well as 31 historiated initials by Benedetti, Giardoni, Carloni and others; a little rubbed to extremities with some minor loss to the upper layer of the leather; corners bumped; beginning to crack along spines, though holding firm; the odd scratch to covers; front board of Vol II with small patch to leather; occasional pages browned (p, 27, 30, 63 and 66 of Vol I), though mostly clean, with just the occasional spot or small patch of foxing; one or two of the plates a little slanted; the odd finger mark; excellent, bright examples internally, the ribbon markers a little frayed. Provenance: Late 18th century engraved armorial Ex Libris of Thomas Lumisden Strange and early 19th century engraved Ex Libris of Melville Portal, Laverstore to the front paste-downs below; with Portal’s manuscript ownership inscription to the ffep of ‘Melville Portal Ch.[rist] Ch.[urch], Oxf[ord]. 1841 / Bequeathed to me by Sir Thomas Lumisden Strange, late / Chief Justice at Madras, who died July 1841.’
A handsome and richly illustrated Roman edition of Virgil, copiously illustrated with numerous engravings by such noted engravers as Marco Carloni, Francesco Barbazza and Ignazio Benedetti. The two mounted plates showing script specimens of text from the Virgilius Romanus manuscript in the Vatican Library, and a map of the Mediterranean depicting Aeneas' route, respectively.
An interesting provenance: Sir Thomas Lumisden Strange was chief justice of Nova Scotia, known for waging "judicial war" in order to free Nova Scotia slaves from their owners; he was also, in later life, chief justice in Madras, and the author of a two-volume work on Hindu law.
[VIRGIL]. P. VIRGILII MARONIS.
Bucolica et Georgica et Aeneis. Ex. Cod Mediceo-Laurentiano descripta…
Rome: Joannes Zempel, 1763-5
Folio (280 x 410mm), 3 vols; in contemporary diced Russia, bordered in gilt with Greek key pattern; neatly rebacked; two contrasting green morocco labels lettered in gilt to spine; five raised bands, bordered in gilt; with gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers and yellow edges; red ribbon markers; Collation [a6], b-h4, l6, [plate], A-Z4, Aa4-Cc6; [a4], b4-g6, [plate], A-Z4, Aa-Tt4; [a4], b-c4, A-Z4, Aa-Rr4, Ss6, Tt6; indexes at end of each volume; printed in Latin, with occasional Greek; title pages in red and black with roundell portraits of Virgil, Tiberius [?] and Caesar Augustus; each volume with full page engraved frontis by Marco Carloni, Francesco Barbazza and Ignazio Benedetti respectively; additionally illustrated with 147 in-text engravings including headpieces, tailpieces and chapter headings, two hors text, mounted on guards, as well as 31 historiated initials by Benedetti, Giardoni, Carloni and others; a little rubbed to extremities with some minor loss to the upper layer of the leather; corners bumped; beginning to crack along spines, though holding firm; the odd scratch to covers; front board of Vol II with small patch to leather; occasional pages browned (p, 27, 30, 63 and 66 of Vol I), though mostly clean, with just the occasional spot or small patch of foxing; one or two of the plates a little slanted; the odd finger mark; excellent, bright examples internally, the ribbon markers a little frayed. Provenance: Late 18th century engraved armorial Ex Libris of Thomas Lumisden Strange and early 19th century engraved Ex Libris of Melville Portal, Laverstore to the front paste-downs below; with Portal’s manuscript ownership inscription to the ffep of ‘Melville Portal Ch.[rist] Ch.[urch], Oxf[ord]. 1841 / Bequeathed to me by Sir Thomas Lumisden Strange, late / Chief Justice at Madras, who died July 1841.’
A handsome and richly illustrated Roman edition of Virgil, copiously illustrated with numerous engravings by such noted engravers as Marco Carloni, Francesco Barbazza and Ignazio Benedetti. The two mounted plates showing script specimens of text from the Virgilius Romanus manuscript in the Vatican Library, and a map of the Mediterranean depicting Aeneas' route, respectively.
An interesting provenance: Sir Thomas Lumisden Strange was chief justice of Nova Scotia, known for waging "judicial war" in order to free Nova Scotia slaves from their owners; he was also, in later life, chief justice in Madras, and the author of a two-volume work on Hindu law.
[VIRGIL]. P. VIRGILII MARONIS.
Bucolica et Georgica et Aeneis. Ex. Cod Mediceo-Laurentiano descripta…
Rome: Joannes Zempel, 1763-5
Folio (280 x 410mm), 3 vols; in contemporary diced Russia, bordered in gilt with Greek key pattern; neatly rebacked; two contrasting green morocco labels lettered in gilt to spine; five raised bands, bordered in gilt; with gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers and yellow edges; red ribbon markers; Collation [a6], b-h4, l6, [plate], A-Z4, Aa4-Cc6; [a4], b4-g6, [plate], A-Z4, Aa-Tt4; [a4], b-c4, A-Z4, Aa-Rr4, Ss6, Tt6; indexes at end of each volume; printed in Latin, with occasional Greek; title pages in red and black with roundell portraits of Virgil, Tiberius [?] and Caesar Augustus; each volume with full page engraved frontis by Marco Carloni, Francesco Barbazza and Ignazio Benedetti respectively; additionally illustrated with 147 in-text engravings including headpieces, tailpieces and chapter headings, two hors text, mounted on guards, as well as 31 historiated initials by Benedetti, Giardoni, Carloni and others; a little rubbed to extremities with some minor loss to the upper layer of the leather; corners bumped; beginning to crack along spines, though holding firm; the odd scratch to covers; front board of Vol II with small patch to leather; occasional pages browned (p, 27, 30, 63 and 66 of Vol I), though mostly clean, with just the occasional spot or small patch of foxing; one or two of the plates a little slanted; the odd finger mark; excellent, bright examples internally, the ribbon markers a little frayed. Provenance: Late 18th century engraved armorial Ex Libris of Thomas Lumisden Strange and early 19th century engraved Ex Libris of Melville Portal, Laverstore to the front paste-downs below; with Portal’s manuscript ownership inscription to the ffep of ‘Melville Portal Ch.[rist] Ch.[urch], Oxf[ord]. 1841 / Bequeathed to me by Sir Thomas Lumisden Strange, late / Chief Justice at Madras, who died July 1841.’
A handsome and richly illustrated Roman edition of Virgil, copiously illustrated with numerous engravings by such noted engravers as Marco Carloni, Francesco Barbazza and Ignazio Benedetti. The two mounted plates showing script specimens of text from the Virgilius Romanus manuscript in the Vatican Library, and a map of the Mediterranean depicting Aeneas' route, respectively.
An interesting provenance: Sir Thomas Lumisden Strange was chief justice of Nova Scotia, known for waging "judicial war" in order to free Nova Scotia slaves from their owners; he was also, in later life, chief justice in Madras, and the author of a two-volume work on Hindu law.