Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, Venice, 1500, later calf

Aulus Gellius

Noctes Atticae. Venice: Philippus Pincius, 15 July 1500

Chancery folio (307 x 206mm.), 128 leaves, A¹⁰ B-P⁸ Q⁶, 44 lines plus headline, roman type with some sections in Greek, eighteenth-century calf, occasional light staining, upper cover detached

One of at least ten incunabular editions of Gellius's miscellaneous dinner party conversations, discussing philosophy and culture while preserving fragments of texts that do not otherwise survive.

PROVENANCE

James Rich (?), old inscription on flyleaf; D.L. Cumming, signature on flyleaf

LITERATURE

ISTC ig00127000