Virgiliocentones : continentes vitam salvatoris nostri, Domini Iesu Christi, concinnati / opera et studio, M. Othonis Gryphii ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gryphius, Otto, 1561-1612.

Contributor:

Burger, Andreas, active 1590-1596, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Jesus Christ.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gryphius, Otto, 1561-1612 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Maxelrain, Georg von (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

138 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

e-i- a-e, ami. TuCu (C) 1593 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Regensburg] : Typis excusi ab Andrea Burgero Ratisponensi, impensis authoris, Anno Christi MDXCIII [1593]

Notes:

Verse retelling of the life of Christ patched together from verses taken from the works of Virgil.

Imprint from colophon on leaf Q1v.

Signatures: (:)⁴ (b)⁴ A-P⁴ [Q]1.

Title within ornamental woodcut border; woodcut title vignette, initial and illustrations.

Text and printed marginalia with ruled border; type ornaments in margins of preliminary gatherings and leaves P2r-Q1v.

Errata on leaves P4v-Q1r.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1960.

Penn Libraries copy has author's ms. gift inscription to Georg von Maxelrain of Waldeck in brown ink on front free endpaper; unidentified round armorial stamp (or stamps?) in red and black ink on title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. shelf-mark(?) ("AA3.") and numeral ("72") in brown ink (the latter struck through) on front pastedown; modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full gold-tooled leather (gilt largely worn away); left board has central image of the Crucifixion stamped in gold; right board has central image of the Resurrection stamped in gold; 4 raised bands on spine.

Penn Libraries copy has wormhole in tail inner corner of leaves (:)1-M1; binding worn and slightly damaged.

Cited in:

VD 16 G 3836

Contains:

Virgil. Works. Selections

OCLC:

82956851