ARISTOPHANES (c.450 - c.385 B.C.). Comoediae Novem , in Greek. With the Scholia. Edited by Marcus Musurus (c.1470-1517). Venice: Aldus Manutius 15 July 1498. Super-chancery 2° (315 x 217mm). Collation: [1] 8 (1r title in Greek and Latin with list of plays, 1v-8v preliminary texts including letters by Aldus and Musurus, and a life of the author); \ka\K-\kg\K 8 \kd\K 1 0 ( Plutus , \kd\K10v blank); \ke\K-\kk\K 8 ( Nebulae , \kk\K7v-8 blank); \kl\K-\kx\K 8 o 1 0 ( Ranae ); \kp\K-\ku\K 8 \kf\K 6 ( Equites ); \kc\K-\kv\K \kA\K 8 ( Acharnes ); \kB\K-\kE\K 8 Z 6 ( Vespae ); H-\kL\K 8 \kM\K 4 ( Aves ); \kN\K-\kO\K 8 \kP\K 1 0 ( Pax ); \kR\K-\kS\K 8 \kT\K 6 ( Contionantes , \kT\K4v-5r sheet register, \kT\K5v quire register, colophon, \kT\K6 blank). 348 leaves. Mostly 41-42 lines of commentary surrounding varying numbers of lines of text. Types: 1:146Gk (text), 7:114Gk (commentary), 2:114R (title, dedication, etc.). Woodcut floral and interlaced headpieces and initials, 3-line initial spaces with guide-letters; contemporary foliation at upper corners. Bearer type on \Kc\k1. (Occasional light spotting, small paper flaw in \Kd\k1.) German quarter sheep of c. 1840, spine tooled in blind and gilt, green leather labels, title lettered on upper and lower edges in an earlier hand (split at upper joint, minor wear at extremities). Provenance : Brussels, Jesuit college (inscription dated 1639, Greek annotations, later stamp of the Jesuit seminary). EDITIO PRINCEPS of nine of Aristophanes' eleven extant comedies. Aldus had intended to include a tenth play, Lysistrata , but was unable to find a manuscript containing the complete text. Having hitherto concentrated his printing of Greek on philosophical and grammatical texts, Aldus turned to printing fine literature with this production of Aristophanes. As he reminds the reader in his dedicatory letter to Daniele Clario, professor of Greek and Latin at Ragusia, Dalmatia, Theodore Gaza, when asked which Greek authors it would be most profitable for learners to read, answered: 'only Aristophanes'. The 17th-century notes in Greek are in at least two hands; they all relate and draw attention to the scholia, and were probably written in and for the use of the Brussels Jesuit College. HC *1656; BMC V, 559 (IB. 24467-70); GW 2333; IGI 790; Renouard Alde p.16; Sander 580; Essling 1163; Goff A-958.
ARISTOPHANES (c.450 - c.385 B.C.). Comoediae Novem , in Greek. With the Scholia. Edited by Marcus Musurus (c.1470-1517). Venice: Aldus Manutius 15 July 1498. Super-chancery 2° (315 x 217mm). Collation: [1] 8 (1r title in Greek and Latin with list of plays, 1v-8v preliminary texts including letters by Aldus and Musurus, and a life of the author); \ka\K-\kg\K 8 \kd\K 1 0 ( Plutus , \kd\K10v blank); \ke\K-\kk\K 8 ( Nebulae , \kk\K7v-8 blank); \kl\K-\kx\K 8 o 1 0 ( Ranae ); \kp\K-\ku\K 8 \kf\K 6 ( Equites ); \kc\K-\kv\K \kA\K 8 ( Acharnes ); \kB\K-\kE\K 8 Z 6 ( Vespae ); H-\kL\K 8 \kM\K 4 ( Aves ); \kN\K-\kO\K 8 \kP\K 1 0 ( Pax ); \kR\K-\kS\K 8 \kT\K 6 ( Contionantes , \kT\K4v-5r sheet register, \kT\K5v quire register, colophon, \kT\K6 blank). 348 leaves. Mostly 41-42 lines of commentary surrounding varying numbers of lines of text. Types: 1:146Gk (text), 7:114Gk (commentary), 2:114R (title, dedication, etc.). Woodcut floral and interlaced headpieces and initials, 3-line initial spaces with guide-letters; contemporary foliation at upper corners. Bearer type on \Kc\k1. (Occasional light spotting, small paper flaw in \Kd\k1.) German quarter sheep of c. 1840, spine tooled in blind and gilt, green leather labels, title lettered on upper and lower edges in an earlier hand (split at upper joint, minor wear at extremities). Provenance : Brussels, Jesuit college (inscription dated 1639, Greek annotations, later stamp of the Jesuit seminary). EDITIO PRINCEPS of nine of Aristophanes' eleven extant comedies. Aldus had intended to include a tenth play, Lysistrata , but was unable to find a manuscript containing the complete text. Having hitherto concentrated his printing of Greek on philosophical and grammatical texts, Aldus turned to printing fine literature with this production of Aristophanes. As he reminds the reader in his dedicatory letter to Daniele Clario, professor of Greek and Latin at Ragusia, Dalmatia, Theodore Gaza, when asked which Greek authors it would be most profitable for learners to read, answered: 'only Aristophanes'. The 17th-century notes in Greek are in at least two hands; they all relate and draw attention to the scholia, and were probably written in and for the use of the Brussels Jesuit College. HC *1656; BMC V, 559 (IB. 24467-70); GW 2333; IGI 790; Renouard Alde p.16; Sander 580; Essling 1163; Goff A-958.
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