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PEROTTUS, Nicolaus (1429-1480). Cornucopiae. Venice: Aldine Press, 1513.
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PEROTTUS, Nicolaus (1429-1480). Cornucopiae. Venice: Aldine Press, 1513.
The first Aldine edition of Perottus’s commentary on Martial, a “massive encyclopedia of the classical world” (Ogilvie). Perottus, the great Renaissance grammarian and philologist, and Archbishop of Siponto, used Martial’s text to hang a “densely woven tissue of linguistic, historical, and cultural knowledge.” It is accompanied by short works by Varro, Festus, and Nonius Marcellus. Adams P-720; Ogilvie, Science of Describing, p. 118; Renouard Alde, 63:6
Folio (315 x 210mm). Aldine device on the title. (Lacking final leaf with Aldine device, front hinge starting, some marginal staining.) 19th-century sheep-backed boards, blue edges (worn at extremities). Provenance: Hieronymus Sinxesti (title inscription, record of a 1547 marriage on f. 78v) – Joseph Sogarius (17th-century inscription on title-page).
The first Aldine edition of Perottus’s commentary on Martial, a “massive encyclopedia of the classical world” (Ogilvie). Perottus, the great Renaissance grammarian and philologist, and Archbishop of Siponto, used Martial’s text to hang a “densely woven tissue of linguistic, historical, and cultural knowledge.” It is accompanied by short works by Varro, Festus, and Nonius Marcellus. Adams P-720; Ogilvie, Science of Describing, p. 118; Renouard Alde, 63:6
Folio (315 x 210mm). Aldine device on the title. (Lacking final leaf with Aldine device, front hinge starting, some marginal staining.) 19th-century sheep-backed boards, blue edges (worn at extremities). Provenance: Hieronymus Sinxesti (title inscription, record of a 1547 marriage on f. 78v) – Joseph Sogarius (17th-century inscription on title-page).