![SOPHOCLES (c.496-406/5 b.c.). [Scholia:] Commentarii in septem tragedias Sophoclis, in Greek. Edited by Janus Lascaris. [Rome: ?Zacharis Kallierges] at the press of the Greek Gymnasium ('in Gymnasio Mediceo Caballini montis'), 1518.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1999/CKS/1999_CKS_06222_0098_000(122303).jpg?w=1)
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SOPHOCLES (c.496-406/5 b.c.). [Scholia:] Commentarii in septem tragedias Sophoclis, in Greek. Edited by Janus Lascaris. [Rome: ?Zacharis Kallierges] at the press of the Greek Gymnasium ('in Gymnasio Mediceo Caballini montis'), 1518.
4 (202 x 130mm). (Light spotting.) 18th-century red morocco, gilt fillet around sides, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: an occasional early annotation.
EDITIO PRINCEPS of Lascaris's scholia on Sophocles and one of only a handful of books printed at the second Greek press at Rome. To further the study of Greek Leo X called Janus Lascaris to Rome to found a Greek Gymnasium in 1514, and 4 years later Greek texts, principally edited by Lascaris, were issued under the auspices of the Gymnasium. The printer was once thought to be Angelo Colocci, a rich Roman proponent of Greek learning in whose house the press almost certainly operated. Vittore Carmelio, foreman to Kallierges, first printer of Greek at Rome, has also been suggested (Hobson), but it is more likely that Kallierges himself was the printer (cf. Layton, pp.327-8). The types were designed by Lascaris and previously used in Florence by Lorenzo di Alopa. (Cf. A. Hobson 'The Printer of the Greek Editions "In gymnasio Mediceo ad Caballinum montem," Studi di biblioteconomia e storia del libro in onore di Francesco Barberi, Rome: 1976, 331-335, for his suggestion of Carmelio as printer.) Adams S-1460; Brunet V, 453; E. Layton, The 16th-century Greek Book in Italy, p.329.
4 (202 x 130mm). (Light spotting.) 18th-century red morocco, gilt fillet around sides, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: an occasional early annotation.
EDITIO PRINCEPS of Lascaris's scholia on Sophocles and one of only a handful of books printed at the second Greek press at Rome. To further the study of Greek Leo X called Janus Lascaris to Rome to found a Greek Gymnasium in 1514, and 4 years later Greek texts, principally edited by Lascaris, were issued under the auspices of the Gymnasium. The printer was once thought to be Angelo Colocci, a rich Roman proponent of Greek learning in whose house the press almost certainly operated. Vittore Carmelio, foreman to Kallierges, first printer of Greek at Rome, has also been suggested (Hobson), but it is more likely that Kallierges himself was the printer (cf. Layton, pp.327-8). The types were designed by Lascaris and previously used in Florence by Lorenzo di Alopa. (Cf. A. Hobson 'The Printer of the Greek Editions "In gymnasio Mediceo ad Caballinum montem," Studi di biblioteconomia e storia del libro in onore di Francesco Barberi, Rome: 1976, 331-335, for his suggestion of Carmelio as printer.) Adams S-1460; Brunet V, 453; E. Layton, The 16th-century Greek Book in Italy, p.329.