Although the corpus Tibullianum is 4 books, only the first two books are authentically by Tibullus. Books III and IV are usually attributed in part to Sulpicia and Lygdamus. Cf. Georg Luck, The Latin Love Elegy, Edinburgh, 1969, p. 100.

Edited by Hieronymus Avantius and Aldo Manuzio, see leaf A1 verso.

Publication statement from colophon.

First published in 1502 with letter from Hieronymus Avantius to Marinus Sannutus.

Signatures: A-D⁸ E¹° 2A-2D⁸ 2E⁴ a-i⁸ (E10, 2E4, i6, i7 versos and i8 recto blank)

Aldine device on title page and i8 verso.

Blank spaces with guide letters for initials.

Includes Elegia deflens Tibulli immaturam mortem (Amores 3.9) / Ovid.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1:61.

Renouard, A.A. Alde (2nd ed.), 1:165.