Epistolai diaphorōn philosophōn, rhētorōn, sophistōn hex pros tois eikosi : hōn ta onomata en tē hexēs heurēseis selidi = Epistolae diuersorum philosophorum, oratorum, rhetorum sex & uiginti : quorum nomina in sequenti inuenies pagina.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mousouros, Markos, approximately 1470-1517

Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Greek prose literature.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Lewis, Thomas Jenkins (bookplate)

Physical Description:

2 parts ; 22 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Epistolae diuersorum philosophorum, oratorum, rhetorum

Epistolae diversorum philosophorum, oratorum, rhetorum

Epistolai Basileiou tou megalou

Epistolae Basilii Magni

Epistolae Graecae

Fingerprint:

ama, **** ***- **** (C) 1499 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : [Aldo Manuzio], [29 March-not before 17 April 1499]

Language Note:

Text in Greek, minor portions in Latin; title romanized.

Notes:

Edited by Markos Mousouros.

Part 2 has title: Epistolai. Basileiou tou megalou. Libaniou tou sophistou. Chiōnos tou platōnikou. Aischinou kai Isokratous tōn rhētorōn. Phalaridos tou tyrannou, Broutou rhōmaiou. Apollōniou tou tyaneōs. Ioulianou tou parabatou. Epistolae Basilii Magni Libanii Rhetoris. Chionis Platonici, Aeschinis & Isocratis oratorum Phalaridis Tyranni. Bruti Romani. Apollonii Tyanensis. Iuliani Apostatae.

Place of publication and printer from colophons; date of pt. 1 from editor's postscript (leaf [Delta]2v), date of pt. 2 from Aldus's prefatory letter (leaf [alpha]1v).

Colophon to pt. 1 (leaf [Delta]4r): Venetiis apud Aldum mense Martio .M.ID. cum priuilegio ut in caeteris.

Colophon to pt. 2 (leaf [sigma]5v): Venetiis apud Aldum. eade[m] qua caetera co[n]ditione.

Super-chancery quarto. Leaf **3r: 26 lines to a full page; area of text: 148 x 100 mm. Initial spaces with guide letters. Without foliation; with signatures and catchwords. Registers on leaves [Delta]3-4 (pt. 1) and [sigma]5 (pt. 2).

Signatures: pt. 1: *⁶ [alpha]-[epsilon]¹² [digamma]¹² [zeta]-[eta]⁸ [theta]¹⁰ [iota]-[tau]⁸ 2[tau]⁶ [upsilon]-[omega]⁸ [Alpha]-[Gamma]⁸ [Delta]⁴ ([zeta]8 blank); pt. 2: [alpha]-[epsilon]⁸ [zeta]-[eta]⁶ [theta]-[rho]⁸ [sigma]⁶ ([sigma]6 blank).

Pt. 1: [266] leaves (leaf [86] blank); pt. 2: [138] leaves (leaf [138] blank).

For detailed contents list, cf. GW. Many of the letters ascribed to pre-classical or classical authors are not genuine.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 213 x 149 mm.

Without rubrication.

Provenance: with the bookplate of Thomas Jenkins Lewis on front pastedown. Acquired by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries in 1942.

Bound in full calf, with mottled central panels and spine, gold- and blind-tooled panel designs on the covers, gold- and blind-tooled roll designs on the spine and turn-ins, and a blind-tooled design in the spine panels; all edges gilt; red silk marker.

Bound in 1 vol.

Cited in:

Hain-Copinger 6659*

Proctor 5569

Goff E-64

GW 9367

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, 1499:1

BM 15th cent., V, 560 (IA.24479)

ISTC ie00064000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2674-2677

OCLC:

249349094