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LUCIANUS Samosatensis (b. ca. 120). Διαλογοι, and other works, in Greek. Edited by Janus Lascaris. Florence: [Laurentius Francisci de Alopa], 1496.
[Bound with:]
PHILOSTRATUS of Lemnos. Icones -Heroica. - CALLISTRATUS. Descriptiones. -Vitae Sophistarum. In Greek. Florence: Filippo Giunta, 1517.
Median 2° (338 x 240mm). Collation: A-B8 (A1r Giunta's title for his 1517 reissue of the original sheets Quae hoc volumine continentur. Luciani Opera. Icones Philostrati..., A1v blank, A2r-B8v preliminary texts including a life of Lucian); \ka-v aa-hh\K8 (text, ηη8 blank); [Philostratus:] a-f 8 g6. 264; 54 leaves. 42 lines; 55 lines. Types 5.:111Gk (text), 5.:144Gk the large capitals only (headings), Filippo Giunta's roman and greek type 90 mm. (title and second work), initial spaces, many with guide-letters. (Some light staining, mostly marginal.) Modern brown morocco preserving contemporary blindstamped calf sides, panelled with border of rope-work tools and horizontal rows of ropework cross stamps, four ties (renewed) edges gilt and gauffered. Provenance: contemporary and later annotations, sometimes extensive, in Latin and Greek (trimmed).
EDITIO PRINCEPS, second issue, with the Philostratus, complete as reissued by Giunta utilizing Lorenzo de Alopa's remainder sheets in 1517. For that purpose he printed a title, also listing works by Philostratus of Lemnos and the sophist Callistratus, which he evidently intended to market together with the Lucian, as the present copy. BMC VI, 667 (IB. 28025-27); HC *10258; Hoffman II, 535; IGI 5834; Goff L-320.
[Bound with:]
PHILOSTRATUS of Lemnos. Icones -Heroica. - CALLISTRATUS. Descriptiones. -Vitae Sophistarum. In Greek. Florence: Filippo Giunta, 1517.
Median 2° (338 x 240mm). Collation: A-B8 (A1r Giunta's title for his 1517 reissue of the original sheets Quae hoc volumine continentur. Luciani Opera. Icones Philostrati..., A1v blank, A2r-B8v preliminary texts including a life of Lucian); \ka-v aa-hh\K8 (text, ηη8 blank); [Philostratus:] a-f 8 g6. 264; 54 leaves. 42 lines; 55 lines. Types 5.:111Gk (text), 5.:144Gk the large capitals only (headings), Filippo Giunta's roman and greek type 90 mm. (title and second work), initial spaces, many with guide-letters. (Some light staining, mostly marginal.) Modern brown morocco preserving contemporary blindstamped calf sides, panelled with border of rope-work tools and horizontal rows of ropework cross stamps, four ties (renewed) edges gilt and gauffered. Provenance: contemporary and later annotations, sometimes extensive, in Latin and Greek (trimmed).
EDITIO PRINCEPS, second issue, with the Philostratus, complete as reissued by Giunta utilizing Lorenzo de Alopa's remainder sheets in 1517. For that purpose he printed a title, also listing works by Philostratus of Lemnos and the sophist Callistratus, which he evidently intended to market together with the Lucian, as the present copy. BMC VI, 667 (IB. 28025-27); HC *10258; Hoffman II, 535; IGI 5834; Goff L-320.