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[ca. 1497]
PSALTERY, Septuagint version -- Psaltérion, Gk. Ed. Justin Decadyos (b. ca. 1472). Super-chancery 4° (207 x 151mm). Collation: α-υ8 ι6 (title, editor's preface to the inhabitants of Greece, psalms 1-77, 10 Greek senarii in praise of King David); κ-\kn o-u\K8 (psalms 78-150, 15 further senarii, register, colophon). 150 leaves. Greek types 1:146 and 2:114 (preface). Printed in black and red (headings, capitals). Woodcut border of David harping, a rabbit and ropework ornament, around psalm 1, repeated on first page of psalm 78, woodcut initials and ornamental headpieces. (A few small wormholes at beginning and end.)
BINDING: Near-contemporary central-Italian, perhaps Florentine, blind-tooled calf, intersecting triple fillets on sides, rectangular outer border of a repeated arabesque tool, the centre panel a rhomboid of floral tooling, blue edges, (foot of spine defective, somewhat worn, ties removed, but unrestored). PROVENANCE: first line on ι1r supplied in manuscript at the Aldine shop, three other corrections more likely by a reader; Duke of Urbino, probably Francesco Maria I della Rovere (1490-1538), Italian inscription of homage to the general commander of the Signoria of Venice; Latin prayer for the pope and a personal epitaph, inscribed on the night of 7th November 1529 in a fine, humanistic cursive hand; a third hand, also 16th-century, fills 5 pages of endpapers at beginning and end, including Italian recipes for making ink and turning hair blond, three prayers (one addressed to the Virgin in the hour of death), and a long account of doctor Giovanni da Migliano's diagnosis and cure of the plague
Third (first Aldine) edition of the Greek liturgical psalter, published for the Greek diaspora after the fall of Constantinople as well as for students of the language. Ambrogio Traversari (1386-1439) learned Greek from this text, taught his own students from it (see Wilson pp. 10 and 33), and Politian taught himself Greek with bilingual Bibles. "Il s'agit d'un des livres grecs les plus beaux et les plus élégants de l'imprimerie du XVe siècle, mais aussi de toute l'histoire de l'imprimerie." (Staïkos, Geneva BPU 31). IN ENTIRELY ORIGINAL CONDITION. HCR 13452; BMC V, 563; Goff P-1033; IGI 8122; Essling 169; Murphy 19; Babcock & Sosower 53; Sansoviniana 26; Laurenziana 29; R 260:8
PSALTERY, Septuagint version -- Psaltérion, Gk. Ed. Justin Decadyos (b. ca. 1472). Super-chancery 4° (207 x 151mm). Collation: α-υ8 ι6 (title, editor's preface to the inhabitants of Greece, psalms 1-77, 10 Greek senarii in praise of King David); κ-\kn o-u\K8 (psalms 78-150, 15 further senarii, register, colophon). 150 leaves. Greek types 1:146 and 2:114 (preface). Printed in black and red (headings, capitals). Woodcut border of David harping, a rabbit and ropework ornament, around psalm 1, repeated on first page of psalm 78, woodcut initials and ornamental headpieces. (A few small wormholes at beginning and end.)
BINDING: Near-contemporary central-Italian, perhaps Florentine, blind-tooled calf, intersecting triple fillets on sides, rectangular outer border of a repeated arabesque tool, the centre panel a rhomboid of floral tooling, blue edges, (foot of spine defective, somewhat worn, ties removed, but unrestored). PROVENANCE: first line on ι1r supplied in manuscript at the Aldine shop, three other corrections more likely by a reader; Duke of Urbino, probably Francesco Maria I della Rovere (1490-1538), Italian inscription of homage to the general commander of the Signoria of Venice; Latin prayer for the pope and a personal epitaph, inscribed on the night of 7th November 1529 in a fine, humanistic cursive hand; a third hand, also 16th-century, fills 5 pages of endpapers at beginning and end, including Italian recipes for making ink and turning hair blond, three prayers (one addressed to the Virgin in the hour of death), and a long account of doctor Giovanni da Migliano's diagnosis and cure of the plague
Third (first Aldine) edition of the Greek liturgical psalter, published for the Greek diaspora after the fall of Constantinople as well as for students of the language. Ambrogio Traversari (1386-1439) learned Greek from this text, taught his own students from it (see Wilson pp. 10 and 33), and Politian taught himself Greek with bilingual Bibles. "Il s'agit d'un des livres grecs les plus beaux et les plus élégants de l'imprimerie du XVe siècle, mais aussi de toute l'histoire de l'imprimerie." (Staïkos, Geneva BPU 31). IN ENTIRELY ORIGINAL CONDITION. HCR 13452; BMC V, 563; Goff P-1033; IGI 8122; Essling 169; Murphy 19; Babcock & Sosower 53; Sansoviniana 26; Laurenziana 29; R 260:8