Prima edizione. Testo latino. Cm.22,5x17. Pg.(4), XXXV, (1), 459, (1). Sobria legatura coeva in piena pergamena rigida, con titoli in oro al dorso e tagli marmorizzati. Antiporta figurata a motivi allegorici, siglata "A.F.C. sculpsit", collazionata dopo il frontespizio, rubricato in rosso e nero come svariate carte del testo. Alcune vignette calcografiche nel testo e al frontespizio. Chiosa manoscritta in fine alla numerazione romana. Si tratta della prima edizione a stampa del "Codex Mediceus", manoscritto del V secolo cos� conosciuto perch� conservato presso la Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana di Firenze, che costituisce la fonte pi� antica, ed esaustiva, della produzione letteraria di Virgilio. L'edizione � curata dall'antiquario Pier Francesco Foggini (Firenze, 1713-1783), che fu bibliotecario vaticano, ed � unanimemente considerata come il primo prototipo di facsimile tipografico di un antico manoscritto, usando all'uopo particolari caratteri ad imitazione del testo originale. > Haertwell Home, "An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography", 223, "The manuscript of Virgil, here described, is upwards of 1300 years old". Updike, "Printing Types", I, 171. Mazzucchelli, "Gli scrittori d'Italia", I/II, 1183. Dibdin, II, 331. Baehr, "Geschichte der r�mischen Literatur", 382. 900 gr.

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Title: P. Vergili Maronis Codex antiquissimus a Rufio Turcio Aproniano v.c. Distinctus et emendatus qui nunc Florenti� in Bibliotheca Mediceo - Laurentiana adservatur bono publico typis descriptus anno MDCCXLI. Typis descriptum tamquam aequissimus omnis doctrinae et antiquitatis aestimatoribus Pet. Franc. Fogginius.
Publisher: Typis Mannianis, Florentiae
Publication Date: 1741
Binding: Copertina rigida
Edition: Prima edizione.
Condition: Buono

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