Etymologikon mega kata alphabēton, panu ōphelimon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mousouros, Markos, approximately 1470-1517

Gregoropulus, Johannes.

Kalliergēs, Zacharias, active 1499-1523, printer.

Vlastos, Nikolaos, -1500, publisher.

Notaras, Anna, -1507, publisher.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Etymologicum magnum.

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Greek language--Etymology--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800.

Greek language.

Greek language--Etymology.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Incunabula.

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 15th century.

Penn Provenance:

Penrose, Boies, 1902-1976 (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

224 unnumbered leaves ; 44 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Goff title: Etymologicum magnum Graecum

Caption (leaf [Alpha]1r): Markou Mousourou tou Krētos

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : [Zacharias Kalliergēs]: [For Nikolaos Vlastos and Anna Notaras], [8 July 1499]

Notes:

"Based chiefly on the Etymologicum genuinum with additions from the Etymologicum Gudianum and elsewhere ... Includes Greek poems by Marcus Musurus and Johannes Gregoropulus and a preface in Greek by Musurus."--Walsh.

Title from caption on leaf [Alpha]2r.

Imprint from colophon on leaf leaf 2[Delta]5v, which reads: To Mega etymologikon entypōthen, peras eilēphen ēdē syn theō en Enetiais. analōmasi men, tou eugenous kai dokimou andros kyriou Nikolaou Vlastou tou krētos, parainesei de tēs lamprotatēs te, [kai] sōphronestatēs kyrias Annēs thugatros tou Pansevestatou kai endoxotatou kyriou Louka notara pote megalou doukos tēs Kōnstantinoupoleōs. ponō de kai dexiotēti Zachariou Kalliergou tou krētos. tōn logiōn andrōn charin, kai logōn hellēnikōn ephiemenōn. Etei tō apo tēs Christou gennēseōs, chiliostō tetrakosiostō enenēkostō ennatō. Metageitniōnos, ogdoē histamenou.

Super-royal folio, printed primarily in double columns. Leaf [Alpha]2v: 50 lines to a full column; area of text: 300 x 178 mm.; col. width: 86 mm. Large red woodcut initials; small red printed initials and captions. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Rubrication not called for. Red woodcut head-pieces. Red woodcut publisher's device (112 x 60 mm.) of Nikolaos Vlastos on leaf 2[Delta]5v; red woodcut printer's device (59 x 45 mm.) of Zacharias Kalliergēs on leaf 2[Delta]6r. Register on leaf 2[Delta]6r.

"In some copies the woodcut headpieces and initials are printed in gold."--Walsh.

Signatures: [Alpha]¹⁰ [Beta]-2[Gamma]⁸ 2[Delta]⁶.

Leaves signed in alphabetical combinations (i.e. [Beta]1 signed [Beta alpha], [Beta]2 signed [Beta beta], [Beta]3 signed [Beta gamma], etc.).

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy: woodcut head-pieces and initials printed in red.

Leaf size: 425 x 277 mm.

Penn Libraries copy has a few marks in brown ink in text.

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 1955 by Boies Penrose, with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full blind-tooled calf; 4 raised bands on spine; blind-tooled spine panels.

Penn Libraries copy: margins of most leaves stained; leaves [Alpha]10-[Gamma]1 dampstained at tail margin; leaves 2[Beta]3-2[Delta]6 and back free endpaper dampstained at fore-edge margin.

Cited in:

Goff E-112

BM 15th cent. V, p. 580 (IC.24733, IC.24734, IC.24735)

GW 9426

BSB-Ink. E-102

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2743, 2744, 2745, 2746

ISTC e00112000

OCLC:

17421054