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APOLLONIUS RHODIUS (ca.295-ca.215 B.C.). Argonautica, in Greek. With the scholia of Lucillus, Sophocles, and Theon. Edited by Johannes Lascaris (1445-1535). Florence: [Laurentius Francisci de Alopa], 1496.
Median 4° (236 x 169). Collation: α-\kq I K\K-φ8 χ4 (α1v life of the author, α2r text with commentary surround, χ3r Greek colophon, χ3v-4 blank). 171 (of 172, without final blank) leaves. Up to 29 lines of text and 33 lines 33 lines of commentary. Type: 114 Greek, 111 Greek. Initial spaces; modern decoration added to renewed margins of first leaf. (Damp affecting most fore-edges, repaired with no loss of text.) 19th-century speckled calf, leather spine labels, patterned endpapers, red sprinkled edges (slightly worn). Provenance: contemporary annotations in Greek (some affected by damp); Biblioteca Rosales (bookplate).
EDITIO PRINCEPS. The second Lascaris-Alopa Greek fount was designed specifically for printing the Apollonius, a book difficult to set due to its arrangement of text and commentary. The type was based on Demetrius Damilas' hand (Barker p.42) and it makes its first appearance here. The present copy shows that it was extensively used and closely followed by a contemporary reader fluent in Greek. The hand has not been identified, but even in Renaissance Italy, such a circle of Greek scholars was select. HC *1292; GW 2271; BMC VI, 667 (IB. 28021-23); Goff A-924; Polain(B) 283; IGI 753.
Median 4° (236 x 169). Collation: α-\kq I K\K-φ8 χ4 (α1v life of the author, α2r text with commentary surround, χ3r Greek colophon, χ3v-4 blank). 171 (of 172, without final blank) leaves. Up to 29 lines of text and 33 lines 33 lines of commentary. Type: 114 Greek, 111 Greek. Initial spaces; modern decoration added to renewed margins of first leaf. (Damp affecting most fore-edges, repaired with no loss of text.) 19th-century speckled calf, leather spine labels, patterned endpapers, red sprinkled edges (slightly worn). Provenance: contemporary annotations in Greek (some affected by damp); Biblioteca Rosales (bookplate).
EDITIO PRINCEPS. The second Lascaris-Alopa Greek fount was designed specifically for printing the Apollonius, a book difficult to set due to its arrangement of text and commentary. The type was based on Demetrius Damilas' hand (Barker p.42) and it makes its first appearance here. The present copy shows that it was extensively used and closely followed by a contemporary reader fluent in Greek. The hand has not been identified, but even in Renaissance Italy, such a circle of Greek scholars was select. HC *1292; GW 2271; BMC VI, 667 (IB. 28021-23); Goff A-924; Polain(B) 283; IGI 753.