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VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Antiquissimi Virgiliani codicis fragmenta et picturae ex Bibliotheca Vaticana. 57 engraved illustrations by Pietro Santi Bartoli. [2], xxii, 225 pages, including engraved title. Folio, 401x271 mm, contemporary leather, worn, with cloth shelf label and white ink shelf number on spine; moderate foxing on preliminaries, light marginal foxing elsewhere, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title, accession number on next leaf. Rome: ex Chalcographia R. C. A., 1741
The text and illustrations are taken from the famous Vatican Vergil (MSS Vat. lat. 3225), the earliest surviving illuminated classical manuscript, dating from circa 400.
