Publii Virgilii Maronis Appendix: Cum Supplemento Multorum Antehac Nunquam Excusorum Poematum Verum Poetarum Virgil (Virgilii), J. J. Scaliger (translator)

Appendix Vergiliana of Virgil with Supplement to Many Poems of the Ancient Poets Never Before Published The Appendix Vergiliana is a collection of poems and texts once attributed to Virgil but now mostly not (by most modern scholars). It includes Culex, Ciris, Aetna (a didactic poem particularly interesting because of its naturalist look at volcanoes), Copa, Moretum (looks at the preparation of a meal by a poor farmer and his African slave, including directions on grinding and making a kind of pesto), Catalepton, and Priapea. ***A 450-year-old+ 2nd translated edition by J. J. Scaliger Collated and complete, minus blank fly leaves. Latin text. In GOOD 16th century antiquarian condition. *** PROVENANCE: From the Virgil Collection of Craig Kallendorf (1954 - 2023), who owned the largest private collection of Virgil works (1,150 editions, not including Incunable books) in the world. Only a handful of prominent institutions like the British Library had larger collections. 89 of the books in his collection were the only known surviving copies, 71 only had one other known copy. He worked closely with Princeton University in helping to assemble, supplement and catalog its Junius Spencer Morgan Virgil collection. Craig Kallendorf was Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University. He was the author or editor of 27 books and more than 170 articles, book chapters, and reference work entries. Among Kallendorf's groundbreaking monographs on the Virgilian tradition, special note might be made of his Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999), which shows how the wide reading of the Aeneid, accessed in both Latin and Italian editions, contributed to Venetian ideology and the so-called "myth of Venice." With its publication, according to reviewer Diana Robin (Renaissance Quarterly, 55.4 [2002], p. 1394), Kallendorf is to be recognized as "the leading authority on the Virgilian tradition in early modern print culture in Italy." ABOUT THE BOOK: Published in 1573 by G. Rouillius (Gulliel. Rouillum) in Lyons, France. Second edition translated by J. J. Scaliger (1st edition published a year prior). Latin text with some Greek commentary. Rebound in 17th to 18th century full vellum with ink titled spine and four joint binding holes with exposed cords. All edges speckled red and black. Small octavo, 6 3/4" x 4 1/2". Collated and complete minus blank fly leaves: 478, [18] pp. Woodcut printer's device on title page. A few decorated initials and head-piece woodcuts. CONDITION REPORT: GOOD Textually complete. Endpapers refreshed and rebound without blank flyleaves. Exterior and binding - age-toned, soiled antique vellum covered boards. Large antiquarian ink stains to top edge and bottom edge, spilling over a bit onto the boards. Sun-darkened spine. Bumped corners. Rubbing to vellum fore-edge. Interior is GOOD for a 450-year-old+ binding. Head and foot of pages stained with ink along the margins, occasionally affecting page titles (but still readable). Pages generally browned. Top margins trimmed close to page titles. Other margins are wide and appear untrimmed. A few pages with bottom or fore-edge a bit feathered. Mostly light foxing, heavier to first few and last few pages of the book. No worming. Multiple pages with thin ink marks in an antiquarian hand marking a passage in the margins. Former owner name in ink on title page. Index has several added entries in Latin with corresponding page numbers by an antiquarian hand; index half-way through the book has page numbers added to it (unclear if these additions were by the publisher or prior owner). Other signs of handling like some page creases. Kallendorf's ex libris sticker on front pastedown.