[Musurus, Marcus, ed.]

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Description

[Epistolae Graecae] Επιστλαί διαϕόρωυ Φιλοσόϕωυ... Epistolae diversorum philosophorum oratorum... [Colophon] Venice: apud Aldum mense Martio, 1499 [in Greek postscript, Musurus gives the completion date by the Athenian calendar, corresponding to 29 March]. [with] ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΙ. Epistolae. Basilii Magni. Libanii Rhetoris... [Colophon] Venice: Aldus Manutius Romanus, quintodecimo calendas maias [17 April], 1499
paper, ink, vellum, leather

Two parts in one (part 2 bound before part 1). Super chancery 4to (215 x 155 mm). Text in Greek with a few lines in Latin. Type: 2:114R (colophons, titles, prelims), 7:114Gk (text), 26 lines, initial spaces, most with printed guides in red or blue, catchwords to versos of most leaves, lluminated chapter initials heightened in gold, α2-β8 foliated in manuscript in red in upper margin, γ-σ xylographically foliated in red in upper margin. Vellum over boards (being a leaf from a ca. 15th century antiphonal with large illuminated initial letter D, heightened in gold), spine lettered in gilt in Greek. Recased with new end-papers, vellum soiled with areas of loss to edges and at spine, manuscript title to fore-edges in an early hand.

Provenance

Maria de Candia (19th century ownership inscription in violet ink); unidentified arms in red & gold to title of part 2.

Literature

Ahmanson-Murphy 29; BMC V, 560; Goff E-64; GW 9367; Hoffmann II, 30; IGI 3707; Klebs 379.1; Renouard Alde, 18:1.

Catalogue Note

Editio Princeps of the letters of Isocrates, Aeschines, Chion and Apollonius of Tyana. The other thirty or so authors include Demosthenes, Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Diogenes, Philostratus, Basil the Great, and Julian the Apostate.