ALDUS -- Suida [also: Suda]. Venice: Aldus, February 1514.

2º (325 x 210mm). Ruled in red throughout. Woodcut Aldine device on the title-page and verso of final blank. (Light spotting and light soiling on first and last leaves, faint dampstain in the fore margin of some leaves, occasional light marginal spotting, small repair to r3, quire H misbound, z2 bound upside down.) 18th-century red morocco, spine gilt in compartments centred with urn tools, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed, light wear). Provenance: Matthew Raine (1760-1811, headmaster of Charterhouse School; manuscript title inscription).

FIRST ALDINE EDITION, in handsome red morocco. The first edition of this tenth-century Byzantine encyclopaedia was published by Bissolo and Mangio in Milan in 1499. The Aldine edition is based on a different manuscript; Renouard notes that this edition is 'often better, many lacunae are thankfully filled'. Adams S-2062; Ahmanson-Murphy 119; CNCE 37492; Renouard p.70.

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