In hoc uolumine haec insunt. Theodori Introductiuae gra[m]matices libri quatuor. Eiusdem de mensibus opusculum sanequa[m]pulchtu[m] . Apollonii gra[m]matici de constructione libri quatuor. Herodianus de numeris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gazēs, Theodōros, approximately 1400-approximately 1475.

Contributor:

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

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Grammatikē eisagōgē

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Greek language--Grammar--Early works to 1500.

Greek language.

Greek language--Grammar.

Greek language--Syntax--Early works to 1800.

Calendar, Greek.

Greek language--Syntax.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Printing, Greek.

Penn Provenance:

Stockton-Hough Library (former owner) (stamp)

Hough, John Stockton, 1845-1900 (former owner)

Physical Description:

198 unnumbered leaves ; 30 cm (folio)

Other Title:

In hoc volumine haec insunt. Theodori Introductivae grammatices libri quatuor

Theodori Introductivae grammatices libri quatuor

Introductivae grammatices libri quatuor

Grammatica introductiva

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : [Aldo Manuzio], [25 December 1495]

Language Note:

Text in Greek, with title page, prefatory letter, and second colophon in Latin.

Notes:

Imprint from second colophon (leaf M[Mu]4r), which reads: Impressum Venetiis in aedibus Aldi Romani octauo Calendas Ianuarias MCCCCLXXXXV. Concessum est eidem Aldo ab illustrissimo Senatu Veneto ne cui hunc librum liceat imprimere sub poena ut in gratia.

First colophon (leaf l[lambda]8r): Etypōthē en Enetiais dexiotēti Aldou Manoukiou tou basianeōs.

Variant: on leaf h[theta]4v, some copies have a strapwork woodcut headpiece and initial, while others have a leafwork headpiece and initial.

In most copies, the word "pathē" has been added in contemporary manuscript on leaf a[alpha]1v.

Signatures: a[alpha]-l[lambda]⁸ a⁸ b¹⁰ A[Alpha]-L[Lambda]⁸ M[Mu]⁴.

Leaves a[alpha]2,3,4, and h[theta]1 signed "[alpha]II", "aIII", "aIIII", and "h" respectively.

Super-chancery folio. Leaf a[alpha]3: 31 lines, with some initials extending into margin. Area of text: 227 x 131(136) mm. With signatures. Without foliation. Catchwords on quires "a" and "b" only. Woodcut initials and head-pieces. Rubrication not called for. Register on leaves l[lambda]8r and M[Mu]4r.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 283 x 186 mm.

Library's copy has the leafwork woodcut head-piece and initial on leaf h[theta]4v.

Leaf a[alpha]1v has the Greek word "pathē" added in ms.

Leaf a[alpha]1 mended at upper margin: on recto with clear tape with no loss of text; on verso with white paper with minor loss of text.

Mild dampstaining on first three leaves and on final two leaves.

Stained with black ink on leaves b[beta]8 and c[gamma]1-2.

Binding: one-quarter red morocco over marbled paper boards; seven gold-tooled panels, and gold stamped author's name and imprint on spine; edges speckled red.

With two booksellers' descriptions pasted on front free endpaper.

Ms. notes in pencil on front free endpaper; a few early marginal ms. notes on first leaves; foliated in ms.

Cited in:

Goff, G-110

Hain-Copinger, 7500*

Proctor, 5548

GW, 10562

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, 1494-95:2

BM 15th cent., V, 553 (IB.24400)

ISTC ig00110000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2632

Contains:

Gazēs, Theodōros, approximately 1400-approximately 1475. Peri hermēneias tōn mēnōn.

Apollonius, Dyscolus, active 2nd century. On syntax.

Herodianus, Aelius, active 2nd century. Peri tōn arithmōn.

OCLC:

71248954