Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Opera

Authors

• Virgil (http://viaf.org/viaf/8194433/#Virgil.)

Other related names

• Caboga, Antonio, former owner
• Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/35552770/#Voynich,_Wilfred_Michael,_1865-1930)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 198
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 172

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Florence?, Italy

Summary

This volume of works by Virgil, likely produced in Florence in the mid-fifteenth century, contains a verse prologue (fol. 1v), followed by the Aeneid (fols. 2r-145r), Eclogues (fols. 147r-159v), Georgics (fols. 160r-191v), and two Poems for Virgil (fol. 192r and 192v). The first folio of the Aeneid text is decorated with an inhabited initial showing Aeneas in armor, and a blank escutcheon, filled in with a later coat-of-arms, held up by two angels. A later ownership note (fol. 1v) states that the book was owned by Antonio Cagoba of Ragusa/Dubrovnik.

Notes

• Sixteenth-century notes in cursiva script, fol. 193r
   
• Letter from Wilfred Michael Voynich to Lewis concerning the gift of the manuscript in the Free Library of Philadelphia curatorial file
   

Extent

I+194+i; 280 x 174 mm bound to 284 x 186

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (12), 2-14 (10), 15 (4, +1 +2 +3 +4), 16 (10), 17 (8), 18-19 (10), 20 (8, +1 +8), 21 (2)

Signatures

Partially cropped alphanumeric signatures visible in bottom right recto of first half of most gatherings

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Regular horizontal catchwords in center of lower margin at fols.: 12v, 22v, 32v, 42v, 52v, 72v, 82v, 92v, 102v, 112v, 122v, 132v, 142v, 156v, 164v, 174v, 184v

Binding

Eighteenth-century limp vellum; "Virgilius" written in ink on spine

Layout

One column of thirty-five lines, ruled in grey ink; written area: 201 x 105 mm

Decoration

One large historiated initial with inhabited border (fol. 2r), forty-six illuminated initials; red and blue paragraph markers; fols. 145v-146v were ruled but left blank

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Antonio Caboga of Ragusa (seventeenth or eighteenth century; on the first page of the text is the inscription "Ex libris Antonij Caboge Rhagusini" [Ragusa/Dubrovnik, in Dalmatia] and over the erased arms on the opposite page are added in ink what appear to be two fleur-de-lys on a bar, probably his arms); "14th cent Italy" written in pencil on the recto of the front flyleaf in pencil; "L400" written in ink on front flyleaf. "S41" in ink on fol. 1r.; given by W. M. Voynich to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (circa 1915); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2057, no. 172.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 217, no. 198.

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Illustration
• Miniature
• Illumination
• Humanistic
• Literature -- Poetry

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Prologue to Virgil's Aeneid written in verse
• fol. 2r — Aeneid
• fol. 147r — Eclogues
• fol. 160r — Georgics; incipit: Quid faciat letas segetes quo sydere terras vertere mecenas [fol. 160r]; explicit: Tytire te patule cecini sub tegmine fagi [Fol. 191v]
• fol. 192r — Poem for Virgil; incipit: Ergone supremis potuit vox improba verbis [fol. 192r]; explicit: Laudetur vigeat placeat relegatetur ametur [fol. 192r]
• fol. 192v — Poem for Virgil; incipit: Virgilius magno quantum [fol. 192v]; explicit: Livoris titulum preposuisse tibi [fol. 192v]
• fol. 193r — Cursive notes in Latin

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Inscription, Ex libris Antonij Caboge Rhagusini
• fol. 1v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 1v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 1v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 2r — Historiated initial A, man in armor
• fol. 2r — Single-margin foliate border
• fol. 2r — Coat-of-arms
• fol. 4v — Manicule
• fol. 5r — Manicule
• fol. 11r — Manicule
• fol. 12v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 13r — Illuminated initial C, with flourish
• fol. 18r — Manicule
• fol. 18v — Manicule
• fol. 21v — Manicule
• fol. 23v — Manicule
• fol. 24r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 24r — Illuminated initial P, with flourish
• fol. 25r — Manicule
• fol. 25r — Manicule
• fol. 30r — Manicule
• fol. 34v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 34v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 35r — Manicule
• fol. 41v — Manicule
• fol. 43r — Manicule
• fol. 44r — Manicule
• fol. 45r — illuminated initial O
• fol. 45r — Illuminated initial E, with flourish
• fol. 57v — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 57v — Illuminated initial S, with flourish
• fol. 66v — Manicule
• fol. 69r — Manicule
• fol. 69r — Manicule
• fol. 69v — Manicule
• fol. 70v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 70v — Illuminated initial I, with flourish
• fol. 82v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 82v — Illuminated initial V, with flourish
• fol. 93r — Illuminated initial N
• fol. 93r — Illuminated initial U, with flourish
• fol. 105r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 105r — Illuminated initial P, with flourish
• fol. 111v — Manicule
• fol. 118r — Illuminated initial V
• fol. 118r — Illuminated initial O, with flourish
• fol. 131r — Illuminated initial T
• fol. 131v — Illuminated initial T, with flourish
• fol. 147r — Illuminated initial T
• fol. 148r — Illuminated initial F
• fol. 149r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 150v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 151v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 153r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 154r — Illuminated initial F
• fol. 155r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 156v — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 157v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 158v — Manicule
• fol. 160r — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 160r — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 163r — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 167r — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 167v — Illuminated initial H, with flourish
• fol. 175r — Illuminated initial T
• fol. 175r — Illuminated initial T, with flourish
• fol. 176v — Manicule
• fol. 183v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 183v — Illuminated initial P, with flourish
• fol. 192r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 192v — Illuminated initial V