Euclid, Elementa, Paris, 1557, contemporary vellum

Euclid

Elementorum libri XV Graece et Latine. Paris: Guillaume Cavellat, 1557

8vo (162 x 104mm.), text in Latin and Greek, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut diagrams (decorated with typographical fleurons), E8 with some text obscured with pencil, old vellum with modern spine lettering, central section of title-page torn away and the remainder pasted onto a title-page with the imprint Lyon, 1617, lacking final leaf with errata and device

This is the first parallel Greek-Latin text edition of Euclid, which was reprinted at least ten times during the sixteenth century. It was edited by Stephanus Gracilis.

LITERATURE

Steck III.56; USTC 152265

PROVENANCE

Toulouse, Benedictine monastery of Sancta Maria Deaurata (la Daurade), of the Congregation of St Maur, inscription on title-page dated 1754