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STEPHANUS Byzantinus (fl. 2nd half 5th century). De urbibus, in Greek. Abridgement by Hermolaos of Constantinople (6th century). Edited by Aldus Manutius. Venice: Aldus Manutius, January [not before 18 March] 1502.
Super-chancery 2° (310 x 210 mm). Collation: A-E8 G-L8. 80 leaves. Greek type 3:84 (text), roman 10:82 (title) and 115 (dedication). 37 lines (dedication) and 55 lines (text), text in double columns. 3- to 5-line initial spaces with guide-letters. (Occasional very light stains in quires D and E only.) 19th-century red roan-backed pastepaper boards, flat spine lettered in gilt, blue edges (tail of spine bumped).
Provenance: contemporary annotations in Greek; Comte Dmitry Petrovich Boutourlin, armorial bookplate.
EDITIO PRINCEPS. Stephen's work on Italian cities was not known by Aldus to have survived, and so he here printed the 6th-century epitome by Hermolaus the grammarian. Furthermore, the manuscript from which Aldus worked was incomplete; he indicated the lacuna by omitting the letter F in the collation, and encouraged the reader to supply the missing text, should it be rediscovered. Aldus dedicated the edition to Giovanni Taberio, professor at Brescia, for whose students Aldus had already been supplying Greek books.
Adams S-1717; Hoffmann III, 441; Murphy 41; Renouard 1502, 15.
Super-chancery 2° (310 x 210 mm). Collation: A-E8 G-L8. 80 leaves. Greek type 3:84 (text), roman 10:82 (title) and 115 (dedication). 37 lines (dedication) and 55 lines (text), text in double columns. 3- to 5-line initial spaces with guide-letters. (Occasional very light stains in quires D and E only.) 19th-century red roan-backed pastepaper boards, flat spine lettered in gilt, blue edges (tail of spine bumped).
Provenance: contemporary annotations in Greek; Comte Dmitry Petrovich Boutourlin, armorial bookplate.
EDITIO PRINCEPS. Stephen's work on Italian cities was not known by Aldus to have survived, and so he here printed the 6th-century epitome by Hermolaus the grammarian. Furthermore, the manuscript from which Aldus worked was incomplete; he indicated the lacuna by omitting the letter F in the collation, and encouraged the reader to supply the missing text, should it be rediscovered. Aldus dedicated the edition to Giovanni Taberio, professor at Brescia, for whose students Aldus had already been supplying Greek books.
Adams S-1717; Hoffmann III, 441; Murphy 41; Renouard 1502, 15.