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ATHENAEUS of Naucratis (fl. c.200 A.D.). Deiphosophistae, in Greek. Edited by Marcus Musurus. Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andreas Torresanus, August 1514.
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ATHENAEUS of Naucratis (fl. c.200 A.D.). Deiphosophistae, in Greek. Edited by Marcus Musurus. Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andreas Torresanus, August 1514.
2° (325 x 205mm). 168 leaves, paginated. Aldine device (Fletcher no. f4) on first and last pages. (Faint spots on title and early upper corners and occasionally elsewhere.) Late 18th- or early 19th-century sprinkled calf, sides panelled in gilt and blind, gilt spine with red leather label, edges sprinkled red (extremities rubbed, lower side scuffed, bookplate removed from front endpaper). Provenance: Chauenon (title signature in an early hand); shelf-mark on front blank.
EDITIO PRINCEPS of Athenaeus' only extant work. The title means 'men learned in the arts of the banquet', and the banquet is the forum for 23 learned men, some with the names of real persons, such as Galen and Ulpian, to discuss philosophy, literature, law, medicine and other disciplines. It also contains much practical detail pertaining to ancient food, wine and dining customs, with many anecdotes deriving from now lost authors. Aldus began to plan a Greek edition of Athenaeus soon after establishing his press; a one-page proof of an unrealised edition, printed in Aldus's second Greek type (first used in 1496) and containing the epitome of book 1, survives at the Pierpont Morgan Library. Adams A-2096; Ahmanson-Murphy 105; Cat. del fondo Italiano e Latino delle opere di Gastronomia, I, no.112; Hoffmann I, 394; Renouard Alde p.67; Vicaire 50.
2° (325 x 205mm). 168 leaves, paginated. Aldine device (Fletcher no. f4) on first and last pages. (Faint spots on title and early upper corners and occasionally elsewhere.) Late 18th- or early 19th-century sprinkled calf, sides panelled in gilt and blind, gilt spine with red leather label, edges sprinkled red (extremities rubbed, lower side scuffed, bookplate removed from front endpaper). Provenance: Chauenon (title signature in an early hand); shelf-mark on front blank.
EDITIO PRINCEPS of Athenaeus' only extant work. The title means 'men learned in the arts of the banquet', and the banquet is the forum for 23 learned men, some with the names of real persons, such as Galen and Ulpian, to discuss philosophy, literature, law, medicine and other disciplines. It also contains much practical detail pertaining to ancient food, wine and dining customs, with many anecdotes deriving from now lost authors. Aldus began to plan a Greek edition of Athenaeus soon after establishing his press; a one-page proof of an unrealised edition, printed in Aldus's second Greek type (first used in 1496) and containing the epitome of book 1, survives at the Pierpont Morgan Library. Adams A-2096; Ahmanson-Murphy 105; Cat. del fondo Italiano e Latino delle opere di Gastronomia, I, no.112; Hoffmann I, 394; Renouard Alde p.67; Vicaire 50.
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Eugenio Donadoni