Epistole Phalaridis / [per] Franciscum Aretinum traducte.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, active 6th century B.C.

Pseudo-Phalaris.

Griffolini, Francesco, 1418-1483.

Honorius, Johannes.

Thanner, Jakob, active 1498-1529, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Epistles of Phalaris. Latin

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, active 6th century B.C.

Phalaris.

Genre:

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Germany -- Leipzig -- 16th century.

Physical Description:

84 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

nuo- naab i-i- eqDi (C) 1502 (A)

Place of Publication:

Impressum Liptzk : [Per] Iacobu[m] Thanner, Anno salutis Christiane 1502.

Notes:

Without pagination.

Attribution of "Epistles of Phalaris" to Phalaris is now considered spurious. Work was probably written much later by a sophist or rhetorician, possibly Adrianus of Tyre, d. ca. A.D. 193.

Translated by Francesco Griffolini. Cf. Bietenholz & Deutscher, Contemporaries of Erasmus, p. 132. VD 16 attributes this translation to Francesco Accolti and Johannes Honorius Crispus but attribution to Accolti is in error. Francesco Accolti is often confused with Francesco Griffolini as both men are also known as "Francesco Aretino"

Edited by Johannes Crispus.

Imprint and date from colophon on leaf G5r, which reads: Impressum Liptzk [per] Iacobu[m] Thanner Anno salutis christiane 1502. Eo die quo preciosa christi passio [per] totu[m] recolitur orbem.

Signatures: A-G⁶.

Leaf G6 is blank.

Woodcut illustration of Phalaris and Francesco Griffolini on title leaf; woodcut printer's device on leaf G5r.

Initial spaces, most with guide letters; printed paragraph marks.

Published in Leipzig.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1960.

Culture Class Collection copy disbound; wormhole in tail margin of leaves throughout textblock.

Culture Class Collection copy without rubrication.

Culture Class Collection copy has many early underlines, marginal marks and annotations in brown ink.

Cited in:

VD 16 P 2432

Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints, P261

Hoffmann, S.F.W. Lexicon bibliographicum, III, p. 214

Hoffmann, S.F.W. Bibl. Litt. der griechen, III, p. 57

Panzer, G.W. Annales typographici, VIII, p. 143

OCLC:

496530519