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October 1503
ULPIAN the Rhetorician (fl. 2nd quarter 4th cent. A.D., attributed to). Commentarioli in olynthiacas philippicasque Demosthenis orationes, Gk -Enarrationes sanequam necessariae in tredecim orationes Demosthenis, Gk. -HARPOCRATION, Valerius (? 2nd cent. A.D.) Dictionarium decem Rhetorum, Gk. Narrow-chancery 2° (275 x 168mm). Collation: AA-PP8 QQ10 (AA1r Greek and Latin title to Ulpian and woodcut device f1, AA1v blank, AA2r-BB8v Ulpian on the three Olynthiac speeches of Demosthenes, BB8v-CC7r on the first and fourth Philippics, CC7r-QQ10r on 13 other political and legal orations by Demosthenes, QQ10v blank); RR-UU8 XX10 (Harpocration's lexicon, XX9v register and colophon, XX10 blank). 172 leaves. Greek type 3:84 (text), roman 10:82 (incidental). 46 lines, double column in Harpocration. Initial-spaces and guide-letters. (Washed and pressed.)
BINDING: brown morocco gilt, Seillière arms "Bibliothèque de Mello" on sides, lettering on spine, multiple fillets on turn-ins, marbled edges gilt, marbled endpapers, signed inside front cover by Belz-Niedrée. PROVENANCE: early Latin marginalia (most washed out); Baron Achille-Florentin Seillière (1813-73), castle Mello in the department of Oise, collection sold in London (1887) and Paris (1890, 1893); Leo Olschki, bookseller (his Venetian label)
EDITIO PRINCEPS of the scholia to 18 speeches by Demosthenes that go under the name of Ulpian, as well as of Harpocration's lexicon, a guide of uncertain date to technical terms of Athenian law and constitutional practice found in the Attic orators. Aldus's exemplar for Ulpian is now Paris, BNF ms. gr. 2939. No dedication was written. Isaac 12793; Adams U-49; Murphy 60; Sansoviniana 84; Laurenziana 79; R 41:6
ULPIAN the Rhetorician (fl. 2nd quarter 4th cent. A.D., attributed to). Commentarioli in olynthiacas philippicasque Demosthenis orationes, Gk -Enarrationes sanequam necessariae in tredecim orationes Demosthenis, Gk. -HARPOCRATION, Valerius (? 2nd cent. A.D.) Dictionarium decem Rhetorum, Gk. Narrow-chancery 2° (275 x 168mm). Collation: AA-PP8 QQ10 (AA1r Greek and Latin title to Ulpian and woodcut device f1, AA1v blank, AA2r-BB8v Ulpian on the three Olynthiac speeches of Demosthenes, BB8v-CC7r on the first and fourth Philippics, CC7r-QQ10r on 13 other political and legal orations by Demosthenes, QQ10v blank); RR-UU8 XX10 (Harpocration's lexicon, XX9v register and colophon, XX10 blank). 172 leaves. Greek type 3:84 (text), roman 10:82 (incidental). 46 lines, double column in Harpocration. Initial-spaces and guide-letters. (Washed and pressed.)
BINDING: brown morocco gilt, Seillière arms "Bibliothèque de Mello" on sides, lettering on spine, multiple fillets on turn-ins, marbled edges gilt, marbled endpapers, signed inside front cover by Belz-Niedrée. PROVENANCE: early Latin marginalia (most washed out); Baron Achille-Florentin Seillière (1813-73), castle Mello in the department of Oise, collection sold in London (1887) and Paris (1890, 1893); Leo Olschki, bookseller (his Venetian label)
EDITIO PRINCEPS of the scholia to 18 speeches by Demosthenes that go under the name of Ulpian, as well as of Harpocration's lexicon, a guide of uncertain date to technical terms of Athenian law and constitutional practice found in the Attic orators. Aldus's exemplar for Ulpian is now Paris, BNF ms. gr. 2939. No dedication was written. Isaac 12793; Adams U-49; Murphy 60; Sansoviniana 84; Laurenziana 79; R 41:6