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POLLUX, Julius (ca. 130 - 188). Vocabularium, in Greek. Venice: Aldus, April 1502.
Super-chancery 2 (305 x 203mm). 110 leaves (of 112, lacking C1 and C8, supplied in 17th-century manuscript). Greek types 3:84 (text and index) and 4:79 dedication, roman 10:82 (title and index), italic 1:80 (dedication). 55 lines and headline, numbered double columns (title-page soiled, occasional annotations in ink). 17th-century mottled calf (spine restored, bumped). Provenanance: John Ord (armorial bookplate, dated 1761); I. Lee (manuscript note, dated 1828); H.B. Sweete (armorial bookplate, dated 1890); C.H. Turner (manuscript note, dated 1918.
EDITIO PRINCEPS. "Aldus' objective must have been to supplement the range of lexicographical works available to students. Pollux provided a wide survey of Attic usage, with a good deal of information about the culture of classical Athens. He wrote at the height of the Atticist movement in the second half of the second century, and his attempt to guide his contemporaries in the niceties of the Attic idiom which they all wished to write, besides being fine evidence of the archaising movement, has its uses for the modern scholar. But it is scarcely an instrument to put into the hands of beginners" (Wilson, p. 137-138). Isaac 12776: Adams P-1787: Hoffmann III, 260: Dionisotti & Orlandi XXXIV; Ahmanson-Murphy 42.
Super-chancery 2 (305 x 203mm). 110 leaves (of 112, lacking C1 and C8, supplied in 17th-century manuscript). Greek types 3:84 (text and index) and 4:79 dedication, roman 10:82 (title and index), italic 1:80 (dedication). 55 lines and headline, numbered double columns (title-page soiled, occasional annotations in ink). 17th-century mottled calf (spine restored, bumped). Provenanance: John Ord (armorial bookplate, dated 1761); I. Lee (manuscript note, dated 1828); H.B. Sweete (armorial bookplate, dated 1890); C.H. Turner (manuscript note, dated 1918.
EDITIO PRINCEPS. "Aldus' objective must have been to supplement the range of lexicographical works available to students. Pollux provided a wide survey of Attic usage, with a good deal of information about the culture of classical Athens. He wrote at the height of the Atticist movement in the second half of the second century, and his attempt to guide his contemporaries in the niceties of the Attic idiom which they all wished to write, besides being fine evidence of the archaising movement, has its uses for the modern scholar. But it is scarcely an instrument to put into the hands of beginners" (Wilson, p. 137-138). Isaac 12776: Adams P-1787: Hoffmann III, 260: Dionisotti & Orlandi XXXIV; Ahmanson-Murphy 42.