EPISTOLAE GRAECAE -- Epistolae diversorum philosophorum , in Greek. Edited by Marcus Musurus. Venice: Aldus Manutius [29] March 1499; [not before 17 April 1499]. 2 volumes, super-chancery 4 (206 x 148mm). Collation: I: * 6 s1 2 s8 s8 s1 0 s8 ts6 s8 s8 s4; II:s8 s6 s6 s8 s6. Contents as in GW. 266 and 133 (of 138, lacking -6 and without final blank) leaves. 26 lines. Type: 2:114Gk (text), 2:114R (titles, preliminary matter, colophons). Initial spaces with guide-letters. (Title trimmed at upper margin to remove inscription, light stain at a few upper margins, one sheet lightly soiled.) 18th-century red morocco, double patterned-fillet border around sides, flat spines gilt, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. EDITIO PRINCEPS of the great majority of the letters. Among the authors are Synesius, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Isocrates, St. Basil, etc.; other letters are spurious or of doubtful authorship, such as Hippocrates, Euripides, and others. HC *6659; GW 9367; BMC V, 560; Goff E-64; Renouard Alde , p.18, 1; Ahmanson-Murphy 24. (2)
EPISTOLAE GRAECAE -- Epistolae diversorum philosophorum , in Greek. Edited by Marcus Musurus. Venice: Aldus Manutius [29] March 1499; [not before 17 April 1499]. 2 volumes, super-chancery 4 (206 x 148mm). Collation: I: * 6 s1 2 s8 s8 s1 0 s8 ts6 s8 s8 s4; II:s8 s6 s6 s8 s6. Contents as in GW. 266 and 133 (of 138, lacking -6 and without final blank) leaves. 26 lines. Type: 2:114Gk (text), 2:114R (titles, preliminary matter, colophons). Initial spaces with guide-letters. (Title trimmed at upper margin to remove inscription, light stain at a few upper margins, one sheet lightly soiled.) 18th-century red morocco, double patterned-fillet border around sides, flat spines gilt, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. EDITIO PRINCEPS of the great majority of the letters. Among the authors are Synesius, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Isocrates, St. Basil, etc.; other letters are spurious or of doubtful authorship, such as Hippocrates, Euripides, and others. HC *6659; GW 9367; BMC V, 560; Goff E-64; Renouard Alde , p.18, 1; Ahmanson-Murphy 24. (2)
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