Suidas, Lexicon graecum, Venice, Aldus, 1514. modern binding

Suidas

Το μεν παρον βιβλιον, Σουιδα. Οι δε συνταξαμενοι τουτο, ανδρες σοφοι. (Venice: in the house of Aldus, and Andrea Torresano, February 1514)

Super-Chancery folio (317 x 204mm.), text in Greek, woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank), modern leather by A. & A. Ganiaris of Athens, first and last few leaves somewhat worn and repaired in gutter, some worming (partly affecting text) and staining, small adhesive label to spine

Second edition of this encyclopedic thesaurus of the Greek language, originally compiled around the year 1000 and edited for publication by Demetrius Chalcondylas in Milan in 1499.

LITERATURE

Aldo Manuzio tipografo 121; Edit16 37492; Renouard 1515/11; UCLA 101; Botley, Learning Greek in Western Europe 1396-1529, Appendix 2:17

PROVENANCE

R. Balfour, Hen. Sinclar [Sinclair], sixteenth-century inscriptions on first two leaves and above colophon; Ex bibliotheca Joannis Pauli Loret, inscription on title-page (the Jean-Paul Loret who was president of the parliament of Bordeaux?)