Thucydides.

folio (302 x 192mm.), [24], 225, [3], 177 (i.e. 128), [4]pp., ruled throughout in brown, illustration: woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf, woodcut initials, manuscript marginalia, binding: eighteenth-century speckled calf, morocco lettering-piece, small tear to q4 affecting a few letters, binding scraped

VD16 T1114; J. Enoch Powell, "The Bale and Leyden Scholia to Thucydides", The Classical Quarterly 30, 2 (April 1936), 80-93

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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This edition, prepared by the prolific Joachim Camerarius (1500-1574), contains an amended version of the scholia, here relegated to the end, that had first appeared as an appendix to the Aldine Gemistius and Herodian (1503) and which appeared as a frame for the text in the 1526 Giunta edition. The scholia appeared, virtually unchanged, in editions until the beginning of the eighteenth century. The slightly incongruous woodcut initials include scenes of female ravishment, sulking satyrs and copulating coneys, as well as busts of Marc Antony and Agrippina.