BUDÉ, Guillaume (1467-1540). Commentarii linguae Graecae. [Paris]: Jodocus Badius, 1529.
First edition of Budé’s Commentarii, ‘a collection of lexicographical, philological and historical notes which formed the basis for the study of the Greek language in France’ (PMM). ‘Budé was the most influential of the French humanistic scholars at the beginning of the sixteenth century’. Adams B-3093; PMM 60.
Folio (326 x 223mm). Title in red and black within decorative woodcut border, woodcut title vignette (very occasional spotting and staining, some marginal worming not touching text, without final ?blank leaf). Modern binding reusing old vellum. Provenance: early inscriptions on title — L. Cosse, 1679 (inscription on title) – early price note on title.
BUDÉ, Guillaume (1467-1540). Commentarii linguae Graecae. [Paris]: Jodocus Badius, 1529.
First edition of Budé’s Commentarii, ‘a collection of lexicographical, philological and historical notes which formed the basis for the study of the Greek language in France’ (PMM). ‘Budé was the most influential of the French humanistic scholars at the beginning of the sixteenth century’. Adams B-3093; PMM 60.
Folio (326 x 223mm). Title in red and black within decorative woodcut border, woodcut title vignette (very occasional spotting and staining, some marginal worming not touching text, without final ?blank leaf). Modern binding reusing old vellum. Provenance: early inscriptions on title — L. Cosse, 1679 (inscription on title) – early price note on title.
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