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Urbani Grammaticae Institutiones, Graecae, Nunc Denuo Summa Diligentia Excusae, & a Mendis Hactenus Minus Observatas Vindicatae. Adhec Quid Operae (Praeter Sufficientem Principalium Locorum Nunc Additum Indicem) Expectabis, Epistola Subsequenti Reperies
by Bolzanius Bellunensis, Urbanus (1443-1524) ; Bolzanio, Urbano
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Basel: Valentinus Curio. Good with no dust jacket. 1530. Second Edition. Vellum. [4], 215, [i] ff. Index. Front and back original blanks present. Small quarto. In modern full vellum with red/gilt spine label. September, 1530. 2nd revised Basel edition. Printer's device on title page, numerous historiated initials after Holbein, and some spectacular typesetting. Renewed endpapers, old/contemporary inscriptions on front blank (which has some old repairs) and title, Greek inscription on last blank. (The inscriptions indicate a possible sojourn in Spain. ) Front blank has an old repair and some worming, last blank has some worming, as well. Text is generally clean, a few leaves have some old ink stains, some light humidity marks in places, 3 leaves near the front have a small hole affecting text, quire g is bound in out of order but everything is present. Some pages trimmed at the top edge slightly clipping the header, but otherwise clean and unmarked, paper is sturdy and attractive with very little foxing. OCLC 48902291. The first Greek grammar written in Latin by Bolzanio at the behest of his friend Aldus Manutius, who published the first edition (without permission, apparently) in 1497. Bolzanio, a well-known Greek scholar who tutored Leonardo de Medici's son, the future Pope Leo X, later revised and enlarged the grammar. It was his most important work, a Renaissance tour de force, in which he describes the nouns, verbs and parts of speech of Greek in Latin. The book is full of charts of declensions, etc. , and the typesetting work must have been staggering. This 1530 edition contains a preface of the Golden Words of Pythagoras with interlinear Greek and Latin. A handsome copy of this important Renaissance Greek grammar, immensely popular in the early 1500s, this edition quite scarce. In Latin with lots of Greek. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 430 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Leaf and Stone Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12184
- Title
- Urbani Grammaticae Institutiones, Graecae, Nunc Denuo Summa Diligentia Excusae, & a Mendis Hactenus Minus Observatas Vindicatae. Adhec Quid Operae (Praeter Sufficientem Principalium Locorum Nunc Additum Indicem) Expectabis, Epistola Subsequenti Reperies
- Author
- Bolzanius Bellunensis, Urbanus (1443-1524) ; Bolzanio, Urbano
- Format/Binding
- Vellum
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Valentinus Curio
- Place of Publication
- Basel
- Date Published
- 1530
- Keywords
- Greek_grammar, Classical_scholarship, Aldus, De_medici, Paleography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Language - Ancient Greek;
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About Leaf and Stone Books
Formerly Greekdrama Books Specializing in classical, medieval and ancient languages, history and cultures; antiquarian and unusual books; and interesting used books. We also carry many early printed books, particularly in the subjects of classics and religion, including incunabula and manuscripts.
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