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Gregorius Nazianzenus, Carmina, Venice, Aldus, 1504, modern leather

Lot Closed

June 15, 03:18 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Gregorius Nazianzanus


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


4to (201 x 145mm.), parallel text in Latin and Greek, manuscript correction to text on C10v, woodcut Aldine device on O4v, modern leather tooled in period style with corner fleurons, slipcase, occasional light staining (from washing of annotations)


This work was issued as the third volume of Aldus's Poetae Christani veteres of January 1501; for the second volume, containing Sedulius and Iuvencus and other works, see lot 210.


LITERATURE:

Renouard 46/4; Edit16 36115 (all 3 volumes)


PROVENANCE:

"Ego Georgius Damianus", inscription inside loop of Aldine anchor

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