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.
Support: Parchment; 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; 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
One column of thirty-five lines, ruled in grey ink; written area: 201 x 105 mm
Gothic--rotunda
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
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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
Florence?, Italy
Circa 1450
Eighteenth-century limp vellum; "Virgilius" written in ink on spine
Latin
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
Florence?, Italy
Circa 1450
Latin
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
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.
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
Gothic--rotunda
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
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
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