ARISTOPHANES (c.450 - c.385 B.C.). Comoediae Novem , in Greek. With the Scholia. Edited by Marcus Musurus. Venice: Aldus Manutius 15 July 1498. Super-chancery 2 (292 x 201mm). Collation: [1] 8 (1r title in Greek and Latin with list of plays, 1v-8v preliminary texts including letters by Aldus and Mousouros, and a life of the author); s8 s1 0 ( Plutus , 0v blank); s8 ( Nebulae , v-8v blank); s8 o 1 0 ( Ranae ); s8 s6 ( Equites ); s8 ( Acharnes ); s8 Z 6 ( Vespae ); H-s8 s4 ( Aves ); s8 s1 0 ( Pax ); s8 s6 ( Contionantes , v-5r sheet register, v quire register, colophon, 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. (Faint stain in a few leaves, washed, tiny marginal wormhole in first 3 leaves.) Red morocco gilt by Levasseur in, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (one corner slightly bumped). Provenance : some early marginal annotations and underlining. EDITIO PRINCEPS of nine of Aristophanes's eleven extant comedies: Plutus , Clouds , Frogs , Knights , Acharnians , Wasps, Birds , Peace , Ecclesiazusae . Aldus had intended to include a tenth play, the 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". BMC V, 559 (IB. 24467-70); GW 2333; HC *1656; 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. Venice: Aldus Manutius 15 July 1498. Super-chancery 2 (292 x 201mm). Collation: [1] 8 (1r title in Greek and Latin with list of plays, 1v-8v preliminary texts including letters by Aldus and Mousouros, and a life of the author); s8 s1 0 ( Plutus , 0v blank); s8 ( Nebulae , v-8v blank); s8 o 1 0 ( Ranae ); s8 s6 ( Equites ); s8 ( Acharnes ); s8 Z 6 ( Vespae ); H-s8 s4 ( Aves ); s8 s1 0 ( Pax ); s8 s6 ( Contionantes , v-5r sheet register, v quire register, colophon, 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. (Faint stain in a few leaves, washed, tiny marginal wormhole in first 3 leaves.) Red morocco gilt by Levasseur in, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (one corner slightly bumped). Provenance : some early marginal annotations and underlining. EDITIO PRINCEPS of nine of Aristophanes's eleven extant comedies: Plutus , Clouds , Frogs , Knights , Acharnians , Wasps, Birds , Peace , Ecclesiazusae . Aldus had intended to include a tenth play, the 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". BMC V, 559 (IB. 24467-70); GW 2333; HC *1656; IGI 790; Renouard Alde p.16; Sander 580; Essling 1163; Goff A-958.
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