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Bucolica ; No Date.]
VIRGIL.
485
510. Virgilius. Bucolica. (.Printed hj Ulric
Zel.) TVithout Place, or Pate. Quarto.
Having concluded our account of the various impressions of the
entire wokks of Virgil, in this Collection, we proceed to a description
of those editions which contain a few only of the pieces, more or less,
of the same author; and in the order observed in this latter division
of the subject, such are first noticed as appear to be the more ancient
impressions. Accordingly, we begin with the present one, which is
evidently the production of the press of Ulric Zel. Morelli has simply
described this as ‘ Editio pervetusta and both Denis and Eanzer have
availed themselves of such description only. There can be no doubt of
the impression having been executed by Zel, and probably not much
later than the year 1470. It is a small quarto of 17 leaves ; (as Brunet
properly observes, vol. ii. p. 648) having 25 iines in each page, except
the last. There are neither signatures, numerals, nor catchwords, and
the 1st, 2 nd, 3 rd and 7thEclogues only, have titles prefixed. Thefirst
Eclogue begins thus :
$uMij mirgiUj a£aroiti£ bucolicfi
carmen Slncipit.
Sltire tu patule recufcang flt’ tt>
gmine fagi.
&ilue£trem tenui muga$ metii
tari£ auena ;
In the vmth Eclogue, wliich contains the well known repeated verses
of ‘ Incipe Menalios mecum, mea tibia, versus,’ and ‘ Ducite ab urbe
domum, mea carmina, ducite Daphnin/ the printer after putting each
verse in full, when it first occurs, contents himself, afterwards, with
inserting only the first, or the first two words; as ‘ Incipe’ or ‘ Incipe
menalios, &c. The last two verses of the xth Bucolic, on the reverse
of the 17th leaf, are as follows :
^Junigeri gui£ tnnfira: nocet t frugifi^ ufire
%tt tJomft ^ature tenit ge$per<> ire capelle.
This copy, which was in the Pinelli Collection, and bas been since
superbly bound in olive-colour morocco, is rightly called by Morelli
* Exemplar nitidissimum.’
VIRGIL.
485
510. Virgilius. Bucolica. (.Printed hj Ulric
Zel.) TVithout Place, or Pate. Quarto.
Having concluded our account of the various impressions of the
entire wokks of Virgil, in this Collection, we proceed to a description
of those editions which contain a few only of the pieces, more or less,
of the same author; and in the order observed in this latter division
of the subject, such are first noticed as appear to be the more ancient
impressions. Accordingly, we begin with the present one, which is
evidently the production of the press of Ulric Zel. Morelli has simply
described this as ‘ Editio pervetusta and both Denis and Eanzer have
availed themselves of such description only. There can be no doubt of
the impression having been executed by Zel, and probably not much
later than the year 1470. It is a small quarto of 17 leaves ; (as Brunet
properly observes, vol. ii. p. 648) having 25 iines in each page, except
the last. There are neither signatures, numerals, nor catchwords, and
the 1st, 2 nd, 3 rd and 7thEclogues only, have titles prefixed. Thefirst
Eclogue begins thus :
$uMij mirgiUj a£aroiti£ bucolicfi
carmen Slncipit.
Sltire tu patule recufcang flt’ tt>
gmine fagi.
&ilue£trem tenui muga$ metii
tari£ auena ;
In the vmth Eclogue, wliich contains the well known repeated verses
of ‘ Incipe Menalios mecum, mea tibia, versus,’ and ‘ Ducite ab urbe
domum, mea carmina, ducite Daphnin/ the printer after putting each
verse in full, when it first occurs, contents himself, afterwards, with
inserting only the first, or the first two words; as ‘ Incipe’ or ‘ Incipe
menalios, &c. The last two verses of the xth Bucolic, on the reverse
of the 17th leaf, are as follows :
^Junigeri gui£ tnnfira: nocet t frugifi^ ufire
%tt tJomft ^ature tenit ge$per<> ire capelle.
This copy, which was in the Pinelli Collection, and bas been since
superbly bound in olive-colour morocco, is rightly called by Morelli
* Exemplar nitidissimum.’