AULUS GELLIUS, NOCTES ATTICAE, VENICE, 1477, MODERN MOROCCO TOOLED IN PLATERESQUE STYLE

Chancery folio (290 x 200mm.), 197 leaves (of 198, without initial blank), a10 b–x8 y z6 A B8, table of chapter headings bound first, 36 lines, roman and Greek type, 2- to 6-line initial spaces, contemporary manuscript verses about Aulus Gellius on initial blank recto, modern black leather by Cambras tooled in plateresque style, slipcase, wormholes in first few leaves with some loss of text, a few wormholes in margin

Goff G121; HC 7520; BMC v 251; BSB-Ink G-64; Bod-inc G-057; GW 10596

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This is the fourth edition of Noctes Atticae, Aulus Gellius's compendium of miscellaneous knowledge composed in the mid-second century. Some earlier Latin and Greek works are known only through Gellius' extensive quotations; it is also the source for the fable of Androcles that is often attributed to Aesop.