Lascaris, Grammaticae compendium, Basel, Oporinus, 1547, modern green leather in plateresque style

Constantinus Lascaris

Grammaticae compendium, Graecae linguae studiosis aptissimum. Basel: (Johann Oporinus, June 1547)

8vo (165 x 100mm.), parallel text in Greek and Latin (and Hebrew), woodcut initials, manuscript text on a4v with a Latin translation of the (missing) first page of Greek text, modern green calf tooled in plateresque style in gilt and black by Jesus Cortes of Madrid, lacking 3 text leaves ([2]a1, c1 & 8) and blank Mm8

The final four leaves contain Aldus's short introduction to Hebrew grammar.

LITERATURE

VD16 L 545

PROVENANCE

Aloysius [--], obscured inscription on title-page; Petrus Paulus de Forestis (the teacher from Bergamo, early seventeenth century?), inscription on title-page