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Vergil: The Aeneid at the Beinecke

A guide to library resources for the study of Vergil's Aeneid

Books and Manuscripts at the Beinecke

Aeneid Fragment (Book 1 513-543 & 547-576) 
Mss. RectoTakamiya MS 88
England, mid 12th Century
Praegothica on Parchment 


f 5vVirgil, Opera, with glosses
Beinecke MS 700
Italy, 13th Century
Southern Praegothica &Southern Textualis/Semitextualis  on Parchment
Detailed Description

ff. 4v-5rAeneis, with the thirteenth book by Maffeo Vegio.
MS 709
Foligno (?) and Florence, 1450.
Humanistica Textualis Formata on Parchment

f. : 167r Opera : [with the commentaries of Servius, Donatus, Domizio Calderino, and Cristoforo Landino].
[Venice : Bartholomaeus de Zanis, December 2, 1491]
Zi +5327.2
ISTC no. iv00186500 Kallendorf LW 1493.2
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- 2 Inc.c.a. 2640 m

Opera, cum Servii, Donati, Christophori Landini, Domitii Calderini commentariis
[Nuremberg : Anton Koberger, 1492] f°
Zi +2081 Copy 2 (copiously annotated)
ISTC No. iv00188000 Kallendorf LW1492.3
Proofsheet  (Fol CLXIa & CLXIIIIb) from Opera, cum Servii, Donati, Christophori Landini, Domitii Calderini commentariis.
ZZi 07
ULB Darmstadt: Inc IV 85 
 

294Virgil, Opera, 1501Vergilivs, Opera
[Colophon: Venetiis : Ex ædibus Aldi Romani, Mense Aprili. 1501]
Gnv60 A501

Dido in DespairDido in despair!  / James Gilray
London, 1801
Etching with engraving and stipple engraving
Auchincloss Gillray v. 10

The works of Virgil : tr. into English prose ... with the Latin text and order of construction on the same page; and critical, historical, geographical, and classical notes in English, from the best commentators, both ancient and modern : beside a very great number of notes entirely new ..
New-York: Printed for E. Duyckinck [etc.], 1803.
Gnv60 A743K

Robert FItzgerald Notebook "Sophocles... Virgil Aen I & II"
undated
YCAL MSS 222, Series V  Box: 98, Folder: 3432

Deleuze's presentation CopyL'Énéide [par] Virgile. Traduction de Pierre Klossowski.
Paris: Gallimard, 1964
BEIN Foucault 1213: No. 2748
With presentation inscription of Pierre Klossowski to Michel Foucault

Clavis Virgiliana : or, A vocabulary of all the words in Virgil's Bucolics, Georgics, and AEneid ... Compiled out of the best authors on Vergil, in a method entirely new. For the use of schools, and the improvement of those who have made but a small progress in the knowledge of the Latin tongue.
Philadelphia : Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger and co., 1811.
Gnv60 W742D:

Virgil. Works. 1502. edited and illustrated by Sebastian Brant 
Opera [cū cōmētariis Seruii Mauri Honorati grāmatici : Aelii (i. e. Tiberii Claudii) Donati, Christofori Landini, Antonii Mancinelli & Domicii Calderi
Strassburg: I. Grieninger, 1502
Beinecke 1976 1840 
Digitized
VD16 V 1332  Kallendorf 1502.1

L'Eneide de Virgile / traduite en vers franc̦ois .
A Paris : Des caracteres de P. Moreau, seul imprimeur & graveur ordinaire du roy de la nouuelle imprimerie par luy faite & inuentée, et se vend chez la vefue, vis-à-vis l'Horloge du Palais, 1648-1658.
1984 +134

Virgil - Aeneid, Books I-VI (paperback) coverAeneid. (Books I-VI) / Virgil ; translated by David Hadbawnik ; illustrations by Carrie Kaser. 
Bristol : Shearsman Books, 2015.
Zac H1174 Ae63 2015

Stories from Virgil / by Rev. Alfred J. Church.
Philadelphia : The Rodgers Company, [ca. 1890?]
BEIN Baskin 173
with bookplate of Leonard Baskin

Major Manuscripts Digitized

Vergilius Palatinus (P)
Vat..Pal. Lat.1631 
Italy, Late 4th to Early 5th Cent (CLA 1)
Rustic Capitals on Parchment
 


 

Folio from Vat, Lat. 3867Vergilius Romanus. (R)
Vat, Lat. 3867
Italy?,Mid to Late 5th Century (CLA 19)
Rustic Capitals on Parchment

Codex Mediceus
Vat. Lat. 3255
Italy, 5th Cent. (CLA )
Rustic Capitals on Parchment