Gregorius Nazianzenus, Venice, Aldus, 1504, modern leather

Gregorius Nazianzenus

Carmina. (Venice: the Academy of Aldus, June 1504)

4to (189 x 140mm.), parallel (interleaved) text in Greek and Latin, woodcut Aldine device on verso of colophon, modern leather, lacking two errata leaves

This work forms the third volume of Aldus's Poetae Christiani veteres, issued between January 1501 and June 1504.

LITERATURE

Aldo Manuzio tipografo 86; UCLA 67; Renouard 46/4; Edit16 36115 (for all 3 volumes)

PROVENANCE

Christian Gottlieb Wernsdorf (1755-1822, professor of philosophy at Helmstedt), note in Latin on flyleaf dated Helmstedt, 16 November 1810 (his library sold in Helmstedt, 20 October 1823); F. Renard, armorial bookplate on first leaf