![APOLLONIUS RHODIUS (c.295-c.215 B.C.). Argonautica, in Greek. With the scholia of Lucillus of Tarrha, Sophokleios and Theon of Alexandria (1st century a.d.). Edited by Janus Lascaris (1445-1535). Florence: [Laurentius Francisci de Alopa], 1496.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1999/CKS/1999_CKS_06222_0028_000(122301).jpg?w=1)
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APOLLONIUS RHODIUS (c.295-c.215 B.C.). Argonautica, in Greek. With the scholia of Lucillus of Tarrha, Sophokleios and Theon of Alexandria (1st century a.d.). Edited by Janus Lascaris (1445-1535). Florence: [Laurentius Francisci de Alopa], 1496.
Median 4 (227 x 168mm). Collation: s8 s4 (r editor's introduction, v life of the author, r text with commentary surround, r Greek colophon, v-4 blank). 172 leaves. Type: 5a,b:114Gk (2 sets of capitals for text), 5c:111Gk (scholia). 33 and 29 lines (commentary and text, varying). Early 19th-century foliation. (Small wormhole affecting individual letters, some spotting, marginal repairs to first leaf.) 18th-century vellum. Provenance: PIERRE-HENRI LARCHER (1726-1812, note by the successive owner stating that the book was bought in the Larcher sale, 1815, for 192 francs, tipped to front pastedown, marginal annotations, mostly in Greek, apparently in his hand).
EDITIO PRINCEPS of the best surviving account of the mythical story of Jason and the Argonauts and the quest for the Golden Fleece. Janus Lascaris, the Greek refugee scholar employed by Lorenzo de'Medici as his librarian, not only edited the text of the Argonautica but designed the type with which it was printed. He used as the basis for his edition of Apollonius Rhodius the 10th-century manuscript found by Giovanni Aurispa on a book-buying trip in the Levant in 1421-23 (now Cod.Laur. XXXII 9). Lascaris originally conceived the type as an upper case alphabet only, and added the lower case specifically for printing the scholia which accompany this edition, and makes its first appearance here. (See R. Proctor, The Printing of Greek in the 15th Century p.79 and N. Barker, Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script and Type in the Fifteenth Century, p.42.) The present copy was previously owned by Pierre-Henri Larcher, one of the great classical scholars of the 18th century, renowned for his edition of Herodotus. HC *1292; GW 2271; BMC VI, 667 (IB. 28023); Goff A-924; Flodr, Apollonius Rhodius 1.
Median 4 (227 x 168mm). Collation: s8 s4 (r editor's introduction, v life of the author, r text with commentary surround, r Greek colophon, v-4 blank). 172 leaves. Type: 5a,b:114Gk (2 sets of capitals for text), 5c:111Gk (scholia). 33 and 29 lines (commentary and text, varying). Early 19th-century foliation. (Small wormhole affecting individual letters, some spotting, marginal repairs to first leaf.) 18th-century vellum. Provenance: PIERRE-HENRI LARCHER (1726-1812, note by the successive owner stating that the book was bought in the Larcher sale, 1815, for 192 francs, tipped to front pastedown, marginal annotations, mostly in Greek, apparently in his hand).
EDITIO PRINCEPS of the best surviving account of the mythical story of Jason and the Argonauts and the quest for the Golden Fleece. Janus Lascaris, the Greek refugee scholar employed by Lorenzo de'Medici as his librarian, not only edited the text of the Argonautica but designed the type with which it was printed. He used as the basis for his edition of Apollonius Rhodius the 10th-century manuscript found by Giovanni Aurispa on a book-buying trip in the Levant in 1421-23 (now Cod.Laur. XXXII 9). Lascaris originally conceived the type as an upper case alphabet only, and added the lower case specifically for printing the scholia which accompany this edition, and makes its first appearance here. (See R. Proctor, The Printing of Greek in the 15th Century p.79 and N. Barker, Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script and Type in the Fifteenth Century, p.42.) The present copy was previously owned by Pierre-Henri Larcher, one of the great classical scholars of the 18th century, renowned for his edition of Herodotus. HC *1292; GW 2271; BMC VI, 667 (IB. 28023); Goff A-924; Flodr, Apollonius Rhodius 1.