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LUCIANUS of Samosata (b. c.120). Opera. - Flavius PHILOSTRATUS (b. c.170). Heroica. -Vitae Sophistarum. - PHILOSTRATUS Lemnius the elder (b. c.191). Icones. - PHILOSTRATUS Lemnius the younger. Icones. - CALLISTRATUS Sophista (3rd or 4th century). Descriptiones. All texts in Greek. Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andreas Torresanus, February-June 1503.
Super-chancery 2° (308 x 210mm). 288 leaves (collation as Ahmanson-Murphy). Greek type 3:84, roman type 10:82, 55 lines and pagination. Initial spaces with guide-letters, dolphin-and-anchor device on title (Fletcher 3) and at end (Fletcher f1). (Light dampstain at extreme upper margin, slight worming in front endpapers and bottom of title.)
BINDING: contemporary North Italian light russet blind-tooled goatskin over thin pasteboard, panelled with multiple fillets, roll-tooled borders, central compartment with lozenge-shaped arabesque tool repeated four times, the spine diapered with triple fillets, remains of four ties (corners lightly worn). Provenance: Antonio Pillone (acquired ready-bound); Odorico Pillone (edges); Sir Thomas Brooke (bookplate); Berès 76.
VECELLIO FORE-EDGE PAINTING: the author in profile to the right, seated and writing at a desk in a room with pink and blue marble walls and green marble floor, author's name lettered horizontally and vertically. Other edges grey marbled with maroon.
ONE OF TWO GREEK BOOKS IN THE PILLONE LIBRARY. Hobson stated that only one of Antonio Pillone's books, a Theocritus, was in Greek; this is the second. Not only did Antonio Pillone own this Greek book, he is probably the one who added the occasional marginal annotations, also in Greek. SECOND EDITION IN GREEK of Lucian's Dialogues and the EDITIO PRINCEPS of the Philostratean texts and Callistratus. The two works entitled Icones by the Philostrati of Lemnos are purported descriptions of pictures in a Neapolitan collection, in whose imitation Callistratus wrote his descriptions of fourteen statues; they are of considerable importance for the study of classical art history. Adams L-1602; Hoffmann II, 536; Ahmanson-Murphy collection 57; Renouard 1503, no.3.
Super-chancery 2° (308 x 210mm). 288 leaves (collation as Ahmanson-Murphy). Greek type 3:84, roman type 10:82, 55 lines and pagination. Initial spaces with guide-letters, dolphin-and-anchor device on title (Fletcher 3) and at end (Fletcher f1). (Light dampstain at extreme upper margin, slight worming in front endpapers and bottom of title.)
BINDING: contemporary North Italian light russet blind-tooled goatskin over thin pasteboard, panelled with multiple fillets, roll-tooled borders, central compartment with lozenge-shaped arabesque tool repeated four times, the spine diapered with triple fillets, remains of four ties (corners lightly worn). Provenance: Antonio Pillone (acquired ready-bound); Odorico Pillone (edges); Sir Thomas Brooke (bookplate); Berès 76.
VECELLIO FORE-EDGE PAINTING: the author in profile to the right, seated and writing at a desk in a room with pink and blue marble walls and green marble floor, author's name lettered horizontally and vertically. Other edges grey marbled with maroon.
ONE OF TWO GREEK BOOKS IN THE PILLONE LIBRARY. Hobson stated that only one of Antonio Pillone's books, a Theocritus, was in Greek; this is the second. Not only did Antonio Pillone own this Greek book, he is probably the one who added the occasional marginal annotations, also in Greek. SECOND EDITION IN GREEK of Lucian's Dialogues and the EDITIO PRINCEPS of the Philostratean texts and Callistratus. The two works entitled Icones by the Philostrati of Lemnos are purported descriptions of pictures in a Neapolitan collection, in whose imitation Callistratus wrote his descriptions of fourteen statues; they are of considerable importance for the study of classical art history. Adams L-1602; Hoffmann II, 536; Ahmanson-Murphy collection 57; Renouard 1503, no.3.