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ORPHEUS -- Argonautica, in Greek. \kArgonaytika\K. -Hymni, in Greek. Ψμνοι. -PROCLUS (410/12 - 485 A.D.). Ψμνοι. [Edited by Benedictus Ricardinus.] Florence: [possibly Bartolommeo di Libri] for Philippus Giunta, 19 September 1500.
Median 4° (229 x 157mm). Collation: α-ζ8 (α1r Argonautica, δ2r \kPros Moysaion\K, δ3r Hymns); η4 (Proclus's Hymns, 3r Latin colophon, 3v-4 blank). 52 leaves. Types 4:121Gk (text), 1:97R (colophon). 28 lines. PRINTED IN RED: woodcut decorative headpiece (repeated once), woodcut 6-line initials ς and Μ, two headings and one incipit. Gold-tooled scarlet hard-grain morocco, sides panelled with a floral roll and corner tool, spine tooled in compartments, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges, by Charles Lewis.
EDITIO PRINCEPS of both Orphic texts and Proclus's hymns. Only fragments of poems that were in circulation at an early date under the name of Orpheus are extant; Orpheus's fame as a singer in Antiquity was due to these poems. However, the substantial Orphic poems collected in this first Greek edition are of much later date. The Argonautica is dependent on Apollonius Rhodius's epic poem of the same title, written in the 3rd century B.C. (see lot 38), and the Orphic hymns to various gods were probably composed in Asia Minor during the Roman age. Constantine Lascaris was convinced of the exceptional antiquity of the Orphic Argonautica and read the text with his pupils. Marsilio Ficino, who translated Argonautica into Latin as well as the Orphic hymn and Proclus's hymns, apparently never raised the question of their authenticity. (See Wilson, From Byzantium to Italy pp. 90-91, 121.)
FILIPPO GIUNTA'S SECOND PUBLICATION and an extremely handsome piece of red-and-black typography. On the types and the question of who printed the edition for Giunta, see note to lot 51. VERY FINE COPY.
HC *12106; BMC VI, 690 (IB. 28063, a and b); Goff O-103; IGI 7039; CIBN O-65; Sander 5229; Rhodes, Annali Tipografici Fiorentini 473; Pettas pp. 42, 194; Flodr, Orpheus 1; Proctor, Printing of Greek pp. 66, 70.
Median 4° (229 x 157mm). Collation: α-ζ8 (α1r Argonautica, δ2r \kPros Moysaion\K, δ3r Hymns); η4 (Proclus's Hymns, 3r Latin colophon, 3v-4 blank). 52 leaves. Types 4:121Gk (text), 1:97R (colophon). 28 lines. PRINTED IN RED: woodcut decorative headpiece (repeated once), woodcut 6-line initials ς and Μ, two headings and one incipit. Gold-tooled scarlet hard-grain morocco, sides panelled with a floral roll and corner tool, spine tooled in compartments, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges, by Charles Lewis.
EDITIO PRINCEPS of both Orphic texts and Proclus's hymns. Only fragments of poems that were in circulation at an early date under the name of Orpheus are extant; Orpheus's fame as a singer in Antiquity was due to these poems. However, the substantial Orphic poems collected in this first Greek edition are of much later date. The Argonautica is dependent on Apollonius Rhodius's epic poem of the same title, written in the 3rd century B.C. (see lot 38), and the Orphic hymns to various gods were probably composed in Asia Minor during the Roman age. Constantine Lascaris was convinced of the exceptional antiquity of the Orphic Argonautica and read the text with his pupils. Marsilio Ficino, who translated Argonautica into Latin as well as the Orphic hymn and Proclus's hymns, apparently never raised the question of their authenticity. (See Wilson, From Byzantium to Italy pp. 90-91, 121.)
FILIPPO GIUNTA'S SECOND PUBLICATION and an extremely handsome piece of red-and-black typography. On the types and the question of who printed the edition for Giunta, see note to lot 51. VERY FINE COPY.
HC *12106; BMC VI, 690 (IB. 28063, a and b); Goff O-103; IGI 7039; CIBN O-65; Sander 5229; Rhodes, Annali Tipografici Fiorentini 473; Pettas pp. 42, 194; Flodr, Orpheus 1; Proctor, Printing of Greek pp. 66, 70.