Author: VERGILIUS. Wit, John de.
Title: Die Miniaturen des Vergilius Vaticanus.
Description: Amsterdam, Swets & Zeitlinger, 1959. 216 pp. 40 loose plts b./w. ills (collotypes) rear-pocket. Oig. hardcover (gilt lettered light light blue cloth), d./j. The Vergilius Vaticanus (Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3225, also known as the Vatican Virgil) is a manuscript containing fragments of Virgil's Aeneid and Georgics made in Rome in about 400. It is one of the oldest surviving sources for the text of the Aeneid and is the oldest and one of only three illustrated manuscripts of classical literature. (Source: Wikipedia).

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