Geras ei m'onomaseias spanion tōn spoudaiōn, ouk an amartois dēladē, tēs alētheias phile.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arsenios, Archbishop of Monemvasia, 1465-1535.

Contributor:

Pratt, W., binder.

Carmelio, Vittorio, printer.

Kalliergēs, Zacharias, active 1499-1523, printer.

Colocci, Angelo, 1474-1549, printer.

Ginnasio Mediceo (Rome, Italy), publisher.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Subjects (All):

Greek type--Specimens.

Greek type.

Genre:

Specimens.

Signed bindings (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Huth, Henry, 1815-1878 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Salloch, William (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)

William Salloch (Firm) (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Pratt, W. (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

60 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

*.*. *.** *.*. **** (C) 1519 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Rome] : [publisher not identified], [1519?]

Notes:

Without pagination.

Title transliterated from Greek characters.

Issued without imprint. F. Barberi in "Tipografi romani del Cinquecento" (p.76) records imprint as: Stampato a Roma : Dalla tipografia del Ginnasio Mediceo, ca. 1519. Legrand in "Bib. hellenique ... " records imprint as "Gymnasio Mediceo Caballini mo[n]ti"

Angelius Collotius was named as the printer of the first of several Greek texts which were edited in the Lyceum Mediceum founded by Leo X ..." Cf. Norton, F.J. "Italian printers, 1501-1520" (p. 97). Adams records imprint by Z. Kallierges.

Probably printed by Vittore Carmelio (in Kallierges's type) rather than Angelo Colocci; based on studies of Hobson and Barker.

Signatures: [alpha]-[gamma]⁸ [delta]⁶.

Full page contains 20 lines.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound with: Arsenios, Archbishop of Monemvasia. Apophthegmata philosophōn kai stratēgōn, rhētorōn te kai poiētōn. [Rome : s.n., ca. 1519]

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Henry Huth (1815-1878) with motto "Ex Musaeo Huthii".

Culture Class Collection copy has gilt binder's stamp: Bound by W. Pratt.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookseller's label of "William Salloch, Pines Bridge Road, Ossining, N.Y 10562"

Culture Class Collection copy has description from bookseller William Salloch mounted on front free endpaper.

Cited in:

Adams A2032

EDIT 16 CNCE 2184

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire, I, p. 508

Hoffmann, S.F.W. Bibl. Litt. der griechen, I, p. 382

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600 p. 58

Legrand, E. Bib. hellénique des Grecs aux XVe et XVIe siècles, I, no. 61

Hobson, A. "Printer of Greek ed." In Studi di bib. e storia di libro, p. 331-335

Barker, N. Manutius, p. 65-75

OCLC:

15246223