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Florence, Manni, 1741. In 4th. Title page and numerous pages printed in red and black, intaglio medallion on the title page, front page and intaglio initial on p. III Finalino xil. on p. 459, marginal foxing, coeval full leather binding and gold decorations on the sides and spine, title on red insert, gold cuts, worn.
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The Medici Codex of Virgil (Florence, Laur. 39.1 + Vatican lat. 3225, f.76), a 5th century manuscript written in rustic characters, preserved in the Laurentian Library of Florence, with a single sheet preserved in the Vatican Library, contains the Eclogues from VI.48, the Georgics and the Aeneid. A subscription at the end of the Eclogues attests that the manuscript was corrected in Rome by Turcius Rufius Apronianus Asterius, consul in 494. Reynolds states that the manuscript "found its way to Bobbio, and was still there in 1467". In 1741 the Codex Mediceus was published for the first time in print in an extraordinary typographical reproduction, or typographical facsimile, designed and edited by the Vatican librarian and philologist Pier Francesco Foggini. The edition, printed by Manni in Florence, was created with characters that imitated the uncial script of the original, in red and black. By combining types of different sizes, the printer was able to also include the annotations and emendations of Asterius and Laetus.
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