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July 1499
PEROTTI, Niccolò (1429-80). Cornucopiae, sive linguae latinae commentarii -Libellus, quo Plinii epistola, ad Titum Vespasianum corrigitur. -VITELLI, Cornelio (lecturer in Greek at New College, Oxford ca. 1470-75 and 1491). In eum ipsum libellum Sypontini Annotationes. Ed. Aldo Manuzio. Super-chancery 2° (306 x 205mm). Collation: [1-56] (1r title, 1v editor's preface to the reader, 2r-5/3v index by Aldus, 5/4r.v errata, 5/5r.v Lodovico Odasio's letter to Guido da Montefeltro, 5/5v-6v Pirro Perotti's letter to Federico da Montefeltro, 5/6v life of Martial); a-z A-H10 I.. (Cornucopiae, I5v-10r Perotti's commentary on Pliny's letter to the emperor Vespasian, addressed to Francesco Guarnerio, I10r-11v Vitelli's notes on Perotti's commentary, addressed to Partenio Benacense, I11v register, colophon, privilege, -I12 blank). 351 leaves (without final blank). Roman types 115mm (much like, but superseding Griffo's 2:114; title and preface only) and 10:82 (first use; text); FIRST USE (sharing the honour with the Dioscorides of the same month) OF ALDUS'S THIRD AND MOST INFLUENTIAL GREEK TYPE 3:84, engraved by Francesco Griffo and inspired by Marcus Musurus's hand (see Barker ch. 4 and addendum II). 59 numbered lines and pagination. (Fo. o10 possibly from another copy, a couple of tiny wormholes at beginning, skilfully washed and pressed.)
PREFACE: Aldus tells the reader that he regards it as his duty to save literature from the ravages of time. Here then are the riches of Perottus, not alas corrected by his own hand but by his nephew. The text has been carefully numbered by page and by line, so that the index can be precisely keyed [actually the invention of a modern scholarly system of reference (see F. Geldner, Inkunabelkunde p. 69)]. The errors found in revision have all been listed, and the student should find his book superior to all previous editions.
BINDING: Gold-tooled dark blue straight-grained morocco, panelled sides with roll-tooled borders, spine decorated in compartments, signed at foot by Simier, gilt edges. PROVENANCE: William Horatio Crawford of Lakelands (armorial bkplt.); Richard Copley Christie (armorial bkplt.); John Rylands Library (duplicate sale, lot 63)
The Archbishop of Sipontum's magnum opus on the Latin language, written in the form of a commentary on Martial's epigrams and a storehouse of linguistic material that was extensively mined by subsequent generations including Ambrosius Calepinus for his famous dictionary. The first edition had been published at Venice by Paganino de Paganini in 1489 and revised by Pyrrhus Perottus and Ludovicus Odaxius. H *12706; BMC V, 561; Goff P-296; IGI 7428; Dionisotti & Orlandi XVIII; Murphy 25; Sansoviniana 28; Laurenziana 32; R 19:2
PEROTTI, Niccolò (1429-80). Cornucopiae, sive linguae latinae commentarii -Libellus, quo Plinii epistola, ad Titum Vespasianum corrigitur. -VITELLI, Cornelio (lecturer in Greek at New College, Oxford ca. 1470-75 and 1491). In eum ipsum libellum Sypontini Annotationes. Ed. Aldo Manuzio. Super-chancery 2° (306 x 205mm). Collation: [1-56] (1r title, 1v editor's preface to the reader, 2r-5/3v index by Aldus, 5/4r.v errata, 5/5r.v Lodovico Odasio's letter to Guido da Montefeltro, 5/5v-6v Pirro Perotti's letter to Federico da Montefeltro, 5/6v life of Martial); a-z A-H10 I.. (Cornucopiae, I5v-10r Perotti's commentary on Pliny's letter to the emperor Vespasian, addressed to Francesco Guarnerio, I10r-11v Vitelli's notes on Perotti's commentary, addressed to Partenio Benacense, I11v register, colophon, privilege, -I12 blank). 351 leaves (without final blank). Roman types 115mm (much like, but superseding Griffo's 2:114; title and preface only) and 10:82 (first use; text); FIRST USE (sharing the honour with the Dioscorides of the same month) OF ALDUS'S THIRD AND MOST INFLUENTIAL GREEK TYPE 3:84, engraved by Francesco Griffo and inspired by Marcus Musurus's hand (see Barker ch. 4 and addendum II). 59 numbered lines and pagination. (Fo. o10 possibly from another copy, a couple of tiny wormholes at beginning, skilfully washed and pressed.)
PREFACE: Aldus tells the reader that he regards it as his duty to save literature from the ravages of time. Here then are the riches of Perottus, not alas corrected by his own hand but by his nephew. The text has been carefully numbered by page and by line, so that the index can be precisely keyed [actually the invention of a modern scholarly system of reference (see F. Geldner, Inkunabelkunde p. 69)]. The errors found in revision have all been listed, and the student should find his book superior to all previous editions.
BINDING: Gold-tooled dark blue straight-grained morocco, panelled sides with roll-tooled borders, spine decorated in compartments, signed at foot by Simier, gilt edges. PROVENANCE: William Horatio Crawford of Lakelands (armorial bkplt.); Richard Copley Christie (armorial bkplt.); John Rylands Library (duplicate sale, lot 63)
The Archbishop of Sipontum's magnum opus on the Latin language, written in the form of a commentary on Martial's epigrams and a storehouse of linguistic material that was extensively mined by subsequent generations including Ambrosius Calepinus for his famous dictionary. The first edition had been published at Venice by Paganino de Paganini in 1489 and revised by Pyrrhus Perottus and Ludovicus Odaxius. H *12706; BMC V, 561; Goff P-296; IGI 7428; Dionisotti & Orlandi XVIII; Murphy 25; Sansoviniana 28; Laurenziana 32; R 19:2