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Comoediae novem, in Greek. by ARISTOPHANES

by ARISTOPHANES

Comoediae novem, in Greek. by ARISTOPHANES

Comoediae novem, in Greek.

by ARISTOPHANES

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Venice, Aldus Manutius, July 15th 1498.

Folio [317 x 210 mm] of (347) ll. Many comments from 41 to 42 lines a page, on the borders of the text. Bound in limp vellum, flat spine with the title handwritten in ink, blue edges. Binding from the end of the 16th century.

Editio princeps of Aristophanes' Comedies.

HC 1656; BMC, V, 559; GW 2333; Goff A 958; Essling 1163; Renouard, Alde, 16; Brunet, I, 451; Picot, Catalogue Rothschild, n°1061.

"First edition, fine and rare." (Brunet)

In this first edition, Aldus Manutius presents to the educated audience of the Italian Renaissance 9 of the 11 complete comedies of Aristophanes of which manuscripts reached us: Ploutos, les Nuées, les Grenouilles, les Cavaliers, les Acharniens, les Guêpes, les Oiseaux, la Paix and l'Assemblée des femmes.

Aldus had the intention to include in this editio princeps a tenth play, Lysistrata, but he did not manage to find a manuscript containing the full text of this comedy.

In his Latin letter of dedication to Daniele Clario, a Greek and Latin professor in Ragusa, Aldus emphasizes the impossibility to trust altered texts in their Latin versions by Aristotle, Galen and Euclid. He adds that it is time to turn to the great Greek literature and the Comedies by Aristophanes are sent to Clario as the best guide in order to immerse oneself in the purity of the ancient language.

Aldus also remembers the answer of Theodore Gaza to whom was asked which Greek author was to advise to readers desirous to learn the great Greek language: "only Aristophanes".

This editio princeps was realized by Aldus under the supervision of Marc Musurus (1470-1517), one of the Greek scholars who contributed to spread the taste for letters in Europeand who was appointed by the Senate of Venice to practice a kind of literary inspection of the works that the Aldus were printing.

As a disciple of Jean Lascaris, Musurus was indeed part of the academy that gathered in Aldus Manutius' workshop and he was giving his agreement on the contain of Greek manuscripts from the Ancient history.

The edition was published with very copious comments by Marc Mursus which enhance its interest.

Aristophanes is the only poet from the ancient comedy whose complete plays have reached us. Since the ancient times, the excellence and the subtlety of his mind and style were already praised by Plato who thought that the Graces had found a shrine in his soul.

"The summit of Aristophanes career was marked by the enthusiasm that aroused his 'Frogs' in 405. In this committed and political play, Aristophanes brightly deals with the question of tragedy by confronting Euripides the modern poet with Aeschylus, the poet from the old and glorious Athens. Dionysus was consulted and acknowledged Aeschylus' superiority".

Modern critics agree to emphasize the extraordinary modernity of those lively comedies in which Aristophanes emerges as an incomparable painter of the manners of the Athenian society.

"A vigorous political poet, comparable to Dante, Aristophanes is also the archetypal poet of the joy of living, of an overflowing sensuality, an ancient Rabelais". A. Lokinovich.

A superb wide-margined copy, very fresh, of this precious editio princeps of the works of the great comic poet from the ancient times, preserved in its attractive binding in limp vellum.


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Venise, Alde Manuce, 15 juillet 1498.

In-folio de (347) ff. Commentaires nombreux de 41 à 42 lignes à la page, encadrant le texte. Relié en plein vélin ivoire souple, dos lisse orné du titre manuscrit à l'encre, tranches bleues. Reliure de la fin du XVIe siècle.

317 x 210 mm.

Edition princeps des comédies d'Aristophane.

HC 1656 ; BMC, V, 559 ; GW 2333 ; Goff A 958 ; Essling 1163 ; Renouard, Alde, 16 ; Brunet, I, 451; Picot, Catalogue Rothschild, n°1061.

" Première édition, belle et rare. " (Brunet)

Dans cette première édition, Alde Manuce présente au public cultivé de la Renaissance italienne 9 des 11 comédies complètes d'Aristophane dont les manuscrits soient parvenus jusqu'à nous : Ploutos, les Nuées, les Grenouilles, les Cavaliers, les Acharniens, les Guêpes, les Oiseaux, la Paix et l'Assemblée des femmes.

Alde avait l'intention d'inclure dans cette édition princeps une dixième pièce, Lysistrata, mais il ne parvint pas à trouver un manuscrit comportant le texte complet de cette comédie.

Dans sa lettre de dédicace en latin à Daniele Clario, professeur de grec et de latin à Raguse, Alde souligne l'impossibilité de se fier aux textes altérés des versions latines d'Aristote, Galien et Euclide.

Il ajoute que le temps est venu de se tourner vers la grande littérature grecque et les Comédies d'Aristophane sont envoyées à Clario comme le meilleur des guides pour s'imprégner de la pureté de la langue antique.

Alde se souvient aussi de la réponse de Theodore Gaza auquel on avait demandé quel auteur grec il convenait de conseiller à des lecteurs désireux d'apprendre la grande langue grecque : " seulement Aristophane ".

Cette édition princeps fut réalisée par Alde sous le contrôle de Marc Musurus (1470-1517), l'un des savants grecs qui contribua à répandre le goût des lettres en Europe et qui avait été chargé par le Sénat de Venise d'exercer une sorte d'inspection littéraire sur les ouvrages que les Alde mettaient sous presse.

Disciple de Jean Lascaris, Musurus faisait en effet partie de l'académie qui se réunissait dans l'atelier d'Alde Manuce et donnait son accord sur le contenu des manuscrits grecs de l'Antiquité.

L'édition fut ainsi publiée avec des commentaires très copieux de Marc Musurus qui en rehaussent l'intérêt.

Aristophane est le seul des poètes de la comédie ancienne dont des pièces de théâtre complètes soient parvenues jusqu'à nous. Dès l'Antiquité, l'excellence de son style et sa finesse d'esprit étaient déjà louées par Platon qui pensait que les Grâces avaient trouvé un sanctuaire dans son âme.

" Le sommet de la carrière d'Aristophane fut marqué par l'enthousiasme que suscitèrent ses 'Grenouilles' en 405. Dans cette pièce engagée et politique, Aristophane traitait brillamment de la question de la tragédie en confrontant Euripide le poète moderne, à Eschyle, le poète de la vieille et glorieuse Athènes. Dionysos consulté, devait reconnaitre la supériorité d'Eschyle ".

Les critiques modernes s'accordent à souligner la modernité inouïe de ces comédies enlevées dans lesquelles Aristophane se révèle un peintre incomparable des mœurs de la société athénienne.

" Poète politique vigoureux, comparable en cela à Dante, Aristophane est en même temps le poète par excellence de la joie de vivre, de la sensualité débordante, un Rabelais antique ". A. Lokinovich.

Superbe exemplaire, très frais et grand de marges, de cette précieuse édition princeps des œuvres du grand poète comique de l'antiquité, conservé dans sa séduisante reliure en vélin souple.

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Highly decorative  initials, manuscript Missal leaf, c.1425
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Highly decorative initials, manuscript Missal leaf, c.1425: Large & finely illuminated in the style of a Book of Hours.

by Unknown scribe & illuminator

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Recto:Double column text in Latin written in an assured gothic bookhand in black ink on parchment. Ruled in red, with rubrics in red. One splendid two-line initial 'N' in blue outlined in black with white penwork on a burnished gold ground, infilled with a foliate design. Beside the initial is a six-line marginal panel of coloured acanthus leaves, flowers and leaves in the style of a Book of Hours. Three two-line initials in burnished gold on red and blue grounds highlighted with white penwork and alternating red and blue one-line initials.
Verso: As Recto, with six two-line illuminated initials and without a marginal panel.
Origin: Spain or Southern France.
Date: Early part of the 15th century, c. 1425
Content: The rubrics at the illuminated initial 'N' read : Sancti petri ad vincula , signifying the beginning of the mass for the Feast of St. Peter in Chains, traditionally celebrated on August 1st. The text reads: Nunc scio vere, quia misit Dominus Angelum suum : et eripuit me de manu Herodis,… Read More
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PRECORDIALISSIMI ac imp[re] ciabiles de adve[n]tu d[omi]ni Sermones co[m]pleti a Revere[n]do...
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Paris: Jacobeo, sub signo Pellicani ab Engleberto Marnefio, 1522. Second edition. Signatures: a-g8, h6(h5-6 both blank, half of h5 missing and lacking h6) LXII f. Bound in original vellum limp binding with hand lettering on spine "Cleree sermones/aVerdu DNI/1522": name on first page "Thomas Stevenson/Edinburgh/183. very good copy of a rare sermon. John Clérée dominican friar, preacher of the Late Middle Ages, is a little and unjustly forgotten nowadays. He was however very well known in the time of the kings Charles VIII and Louis XII, whose he has been the confessor. This study is based on the Quadragesimale said of Valenciennes. Clérée, using always of the rules of the scolastic Ars Praedicamdi, is nevertheless able to innovate by introducing in his sermons some dramatic dialogues. He is an accurate witness of the difficulties and problems of the french society about 1500 : the increasing inegalities between rich and poor ; the heaviness of the royal fiscality and of all kinds of taxes ; the… Read More
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Theologia naturalis; sive, Liber creaturarum specialiter de homine et de natura ejus in quantum...
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Theologia naturalis; sive, Liber creaturarum specialiter de homine et de natura ejus in quantum homo: et de his que sunt ei necessaria ad cognoscendum seipsum et Deum, et omne debitum ad quod homo tenetur et obligatur tam Deo quam proximo.

by De Sabunde, Raymundus (Raimundus Sabundus, Raymond of Sebonde or Ramon Sibiuda, Catalan scholar, c.1385-1436)

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Strasbourg: Argentinae: Ex officina Martini Flach junioris, 1501. Half leather. Fine. Folio, printed in Strassburg by Martin Flach, 7 February 1501; 161 unnumbered leaves. BINDING: new Gothic hand-sewn oak binding by Arthur Green of Malvern; tawed quarter leather over quarter-sawn oak boards, quires hand-sewn on four double-cords creating four raised spine bands, board leather blind-tooled with period style rosettes and fleurs-de-lys within panel of diagonal blind triple fillets, hand-sewn Gothic double headbands of alternate hand-dyed indigo and undyed linen thread, hand-made brass hasps and clasps ornamented in period style; an exceptionally attractive recreation of a Gothic hand-sewn binding employing medieval techniques contemporaneous with the date the book was printed. COLLATION: [pi]6, a2-8, b-y6, z8, zeta6, antisigma8; leaf a1 excised and subsequent first few lines of a2[recto] redacted in black ink in the sixteenth century by the inquisitor for its heretical content (see below). TEXT: Double… Read More
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Donatus melior
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Donatus melior: Unpublished, unique (post)incunabula

by Antonij Mancinelli

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8°, 20 x 14 cm. Mid-19th century cardboard binding.
41 nn leaves; there exist leaves aiii – a8; b1-b8; c1-c8; d1-d2; d6-d8 (?); e1-e8; f2-f7;
Missing are: a1, a2, d3 – d5 (?), f1, f7 and an unknown number of following leaves.
Numerous old ink notes; leaves are numbered recto at upper right; water stained throughout.
As the imprint is missing, an exact dating is difficult. The initials were used by Rosembach from ca. 1493. The initials were also used in the Missal of 1499 (M24774 Missale Tarraconense. 26.VI.1499.°). The woodblocks are still unworn in our Donatus melior, therefore, the impression was not made very much later.
Printed with Joan Rosembach`s types 1, 7 and 2. There are aberrant majuscules as Rosembach used in prints he made in Perpignan. The state of the type in this Donatus is the same as in the preface to Mancinelli's "Carmen de figuris" (according to Norton this is the Spica edition, p. 233a). An even better example is the "Vocabulario" of 1502.
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Imitatio Christi.
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Imitatio Christi.

by (KEMPIS, THOMAS À)

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Hardcover. Fine. Tractat[us] de meditatio[n]e cordis Joh[ann]is Gerson. Illustrated with 4 xylographic foliated initials, the first colored. 8vo. Bound in 19th century vellum. Impressum Venetijs arte [et] impensis Bernardini de benalijs, 1488. Early Edition. Hain, 9095; Goff, I-17; Bodleian Lib. 15th cent., T-105; BM 15th cent., V, p. 372 (IA.22318). The Imitatio Christi, or Imitation of Christ is often considered the greatest of all Christian manuals of devotion. In the late 15th century there was some dispute as to the authorship of this work. The present edition mistakenly ascribes it to Johannis Gerson, a French scholar, educator, reformer, poet and chancellor of the University of Paris. It has, however, been proven that this work really was written by the German monk Thomas à Kempis. Attributed variously but now definitely ascribed to Thomas à Kempis. (Goff). The first edition of Kempis work, published in 1473, did not include the Imitatio Christi, as it was believed then that Kempis was not… Read More
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Manipulus curatorum.
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Manipulus curatorum.

by Guido de Monte Rochen

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8vo. 19th- century ½-vellum. Venice: (Damianus de Mediolano, de Gorgonzola) 16 Nov. 1493. (ISTC No.: ig00602500; H 8207; GW 11804). Guido de Monte Rochen's Manipulus curatorum is considered the most important of the medieval pastoral manuals. (It was not made obsolete until the Council of Trent in 1566.) It is especially important as a key example of the intersection of religious doctrine and practice. The author attempts to make centuries of theology and canon law comprehensible for the priest of little learning and, in turn, for his parishioners. No other work did this as successfully. Binding slightly bent; title page a bit dusty; a few leaves misnumbered in manuscript; o/w a fine copy with large margins of this rare incunable. No known copies in the United States.
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[Summa de virtutibus]  [On the Virtues ; The Summation of Virtues] [Quintæ Partis...
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[Summa de virtutibus] [On the Virtues ; The Summation of Virtues] [Quintæ Partis Principalis, Tractatus de Beatitudinibus]

by Peraldus, Guilelmus ca. 1190-1271 [var. Guillermus Parisiensis, Guilielmus, Guilelmus, Guillaume Perrault, Guilelmus, Willelmi de Peraldo, Wilhelm Peraldus, Guilelmus de Petra Alda, Guillaume de Peyraud] ; Michael Wenßler [Wenssler], fl. 1472-1497

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[Basle, Switzerland : Michael Wenßler (Wenssler), 1475], 1475. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 169 Folio leaves ; 31 cm. ; 2° ; bound in quarter suede with three raised bands, hand-written titles on spine ; an incunable from the early and important press of Michael Wenssler of Basel, Switzerland ; this partial copy without title page or colophon ; Hain 12383, Proctor 7464, British Museum 15th century III, 722 (IB.37053), Polain 3034, Goff P-83, Walsh 1114 ; single column 36 line Gothic type, with conventional 15th century printing ligatures, and with rubricized initials throughout; some generally minor edge staining and tears ; a few worm holes in the margins ; a few pages with larger stains ; this copy with no chapter headings or signature marks ; begins at Quintæ Partis Principalis, Tractatus de Beatitudinibus, with the section on Patience and the temptations of demons and ends the Beatitudes with the discourse on Peace; rubics in the same hand that… Read More
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