Euripides, Hecuba, Venice, Aldo, 1507, vellum, Luca Oradini's copy

Euripides. Hecuba, et Iphigenia in Aulide Euripidis tragoediae in Latinum tralatae Erasmo Roterodamo interprete. Eiusdem Ode de laudibus Britanniae, regisque Henrici septimi, ac regnorum liberorum eius. Eiusdem Ode de senectutis incommodis. Venice: Aldo Manuzio, December 1507

Another copy.

8vo (161 x 96 mm). Roman and italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: π⁸ a-i⁸ (lacking π8 blank): 79 leaves. Aldine device on title-page. (Restoration to d1 affecting text, some early ink stains, dampstaining affecting upper corner.)

binding: Likely twentieth-century vellum with yapp edges (166 x 107 mm). (Some discoloration.)

provenance: Lucio Oradini, inscription “lucij oradinij” on title-page (sixteenth century) — Gianfranco Alessandrini (1926- 2001) — Pierre Bergé & Jean-Baptiste de Proyart, Geneva, 19 November 2004, lot 66 (unsold). acquisition: Purchased from Librairie Jean-Claude Vrain, Paris, 2010. references: UCLA 96; Renouard 51/1; Aldo Manuzio tipografo 98; Edit16 18374; USTC 828497