From Flickr: “Masked annotations in Vergilius Maro, Publius: Opera” by University of Glasgow Library

April 16, 2015 Uncategorized

Vergilius Maro, Publius: Opera. Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneis, with argumenta. Additional texts. Edited by Johannes Andreas de Bussis, bishop of Aleria.Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, [1471]. Page of text from the Aeneis Lib. VI ([121v]), where lengthy marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand have been masked by the superimposition of a blank strip of paper; pointing hands, “nota” marks and underlining. (Sp Coll Hunterian Be.2.7).

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