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MAXIMUS OF TYRE (2nd century AD). Platonici Sermones e Graeca. Basel: Ioannis Frobenius, 1519.
The preferred second edition and the earliest work decorated with woodcuts by Ambrosius Holbein (c.1494 - c.1519). The sermons are preceded by a preface written by Cosmus Paccius, the archbishop of Florence, who also translated the work from the original Greek into Latin. This translation was made from a manuscript copy of Tyrius’ 41 dissertations that was brought by Janus Lascaris from Greece to the De Medici family in Florence. The first edition, without the Ambrosius woodcuts, was printed in Rome in 1517. Fairfax Murray 286. Not in Adams.
Folio (298 x 201mm). Title, first page of preface and sermons in woodcut borders by the Holbein brothers, title border signed ‘AH’ and dated 1517, initials, various ornamental headpieces, printer’s device in colophon (light marginal waterstains mostly in quires a-b). Modern pasteboards (small chip at head of spine, some minor repairs, slight splitting at joints) Provenance: faded 16th-century purchase record (inscription on title).
The preferred second edition and the earliest work decorated with woodcuts by Ambrosius Holbein (c.1494 - c.1519). The sermons are preceded by a preface written by Cosmus Paccius, the archbishop of Florence, who also translated the work from the original Greek into Latin. This translation was made from a manuscript copy of Tyrius’ 41 dissertations that was brought by Janus Lascaris from Greece to the De Medici family in Florence. The first edition, without the Ambrosius woodcuts, was printed in Rome in 1517. Fairfax Murray 286. Not in Adams.
Folio (298 x 201mm). Title, first page of preface and sermons in woodcut borders by the Holbein brothers, title border signed ‘AH’ and dated 1517, initials, various ornamental headpieces, printer’s device in colophon (light marginal waterstains mostly in quires a-b). Modern pasteboards (small chip at head of spine, some minor repairs, slight splitting at joints) Provenance: faded 16th-century purchase record (inscription on title).
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