Stobaeus, Eclogarum libri duo, Antwerp, Plantin, 1575, later vellum

Johannes Stobaeus

Eclogarum libri duo, quorum prior physicas, posterior ethicas complectitur nunc primum Graece editi. Una & G. Gemisti Plethonis de rebus Peloponnes. orationes duae... libellus Graecus de virtutibus [translated by Willem Canter]. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1575

folio (332 x 218mm.), woodcut Plantin device on title-pages, parallel text in Greek and Latin, woodcut initials, with final blank leaf, later vellum, two repaired tears on title-page, wormhole at foot of gutter and in outer margin towards end, small paper flaw in n5, last few leaves slightly damp-stained

Editio princeps of Stobaeus's fifth-century compilation of extracts from Greek authors, edited by the Dutch professor of Greek, Willem Canter (1542-1575), from manuscripts in the library of Joannes Sambucus. This volume contains books 1 and 2 only; books 3 and 4 were considered a separate work and had appeared in 1536.

LITERATURE

Voet 2263; USTC 403291