Virgil
Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid
Northern Italy, early fourteenth century

Moore’s library included many of the great classical works expected to belong in a gentleman’s library, this copy of Virgil being a particularly beautiful example. The illuminations appear mainly in the Aeneid, here showing the death of Dido observed by two sailors, in book IV. Moore also owned many printed editions of Virgil (including several incunables) so this is unlikely to have been his primary study copy; the earlier glosses are in French and Italian hands.

MS Ee.5.5, ff. 109v–110r (Royal Library)