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LUCIANUS Samosatensis (b. ca. 120 A.D.). Διαλογοι. And his other works, in Greek. Florence: [Laurentius Francisci de Alopa], 1496.
Chancery 2° (300 x 202 mm.). Collation: A-B8 (A1. Giunta's title for his 1517 reissue of the original sheets Quae hoc volumine continentur. Luciani Opera. Icones Philostrati..., A1. blank, A2.-B8. preliminary texts including a life of Lucian); \ka-v aa-hh\K8 (text, ηη8 blank). 263 leaves (of 264, without the final blank). Types 5.:111Gk (text), 5a:144Gk the large capitals only (headings), Filippo Giunta's roman and greek type 90 mm. (title), initial spaces. (Fos. 256 verso and 259 recto censored on 12th August 1708 with most lines scored through, repair to lower outer corner of the first several leaves affecting a few letters, some staining, browned throughout, manuscript marginalia cropped by the binder.) 20th-century vellum. Provenance: Salamanca, Colegio de Trilingue 1594 (inscriptions, marginalia); censored by order of the Inquisition by Ayala 1708; J.P.R. Lyell (morocco bookplate, author of Early Book Illustration in Spain 1926); Robert Alexander Peddie, author of Conspectus Incunabulorum 1910-14, sold to; Davis & Oriolo, booksellers 1944 (letter laid in); Viscount Mersey (Bignor Park booklabel).
EDITIO PRINCEPS, second issue. Giunta reissued Lorenzo de Alopa's remainder sheets in 1517. For that purpose he printed a title, also listing works by Philostratus of Lemnos and the sophist Callistratus, which he evidently intended to market together with the Lucian; however, their separate survival seems to indicate a change of plan. Some of Lucian's dialogues and epistolary writings satirize religious fervour, enough at least for the Santo Officio's censor to expurgate this Salamancan school copy. HC *10258; BMC VI, 667; Goff L-320; Oates 2441; IGI 5834; Hoffman II, 535.
Chancery 2° (300 x 202 mm.). Collation: A-B8 (A1. Giunta's title for his 1517 reissue of the original sheets Quae hoc volumine continentur. Luciani Opera. Icones Philostrati..., A1. blank, A2.-B8. preliminary texts including a life of Lucian); \ka-v aa-hh\K8 (text, ηη8 blank). 263 leaves (of 264, without the final blank). Types 5.:111Gk (text), 5a:144Gk the large capitals only (headings), Filippo Giunta's roman and greek type 90 mm. (title), initial spaces. (Fos. 256 verso and 259 recto censored on 12th August 1708 with most lines scored through, repair to lower outer corner of the first several leaves affecting a few letters, some staining, browned throughout, manuscript marginalia cropped by the binder.) 20th-century vellum. Provenance: Salamanca, Colegio de Trilingue 1594 (inscriptions, marginalia); censored by order of the Inquisition by Ayala 1708; J.P.R. Lyell (morocco bookplate, author of Early Book Illustration in Spain 1926); Robert Alexander Peddie, author of Conspectus Incunabulorum 1910-14, sold to; Davis & Oriolo, booksellers 1944 (letter laid in); Viscount Mersey (Bignor Park booklabel).
EDITIO PRINCEPS, second issue. Giunta reissued Lorenzo de Alopa's remainder sheets in 1517. For that purpose he printed a title, also listing works by Philostratus of Lemnos and the sophist Callistratus, which he evidently intended to market together with the Lucian; however, their separate survival seems to indicate a change of plan. Some of Lucian's dialogues and epistolary writings satirize religious fervour, enough at least for the Santo Officio's censor to expurgate this Salamancan school copy. HC *10258; BMC VI, 667; Goff L-320; Oates 2441; IGI 5834; Hoffman II, 535.