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POLITIANUS, Angelus (1454-1494). Opera. Edited by Alexander Sartius. Venice: Aldus Manutius, July 1498.
Super-chancery 2o (313 x 205 mm). Collation: a-p8 q-r10 s-t8 (a1r title, a1v dedication by Aldus to Marino Sanuto, a2r table of contents, a3r Epistolae); A-I8 K4 (A1r Miscellanea, K4 blank); L-P8 Q-R10 (L1r blank, L1v Herodian); S8 (Epictetus); T10 V6 X10 (Alexander Aphrodisiensis, etc., X10v blank); Y10 Z8 (In Aristotelis Analytica, De ira); &10 (In expositione Homeri); aa10 (Super Quintiliano, et Statii Silvis); "iterum" aa-"iterum" bb8 (Orationes, Athanasii in Psalmos, Dialectica); bb-hh8 ii6 ks10 (bb1r Praelectio de dialectica, In Persium, Nutricia, Silvae, Epigrammata, Epigrammata graeca, kv colophon, kr quire register, k0r "Monodia" on the death of Lorenzo de'Medici, k0v blank). 452 leaves. 38 lines and headline. Types: 2:114R, 114R* (sheet a1.6), 7:114Gk, Hebrew type on C5v and H8r. 2- to 9-line initial spaces with printed guide letters. (Occasional mostly marginal dampstaining, foxing to a few leaves, some staining or soiling at front and back, few marginal tears to last leaves). Modern brown morocco, contemporary or 16th-century manuscript title on fore-edge.
FIRST EDITION of Poliziano's collected works, and apparently the first printed collected edition of a modern author. Poliziano was preparing an edition of his letters when he died; the project was then taken on by the Bolognese humanist Alessandro Sarti. An edition, of which a single sheet survives, was undertaken by Plato de Benedictus at Bologna, who had printed various of Poliziano's individual works and a collection of his vernacular writings in 1494, but the project was cut short by Plato's death in August 1496. To Poliziano's already published works and translations Aldus added his letters, Latin and Greek poems, and several short treatises. A counterfeit edition was published the following year in Brescia, with a false Florentine imprint.
The Hebrew type used on C5v and H8r is unrecorded in BMC, Proctor, or Haebler, and differs from the Hebrew types used later by Aldus. In this copy the first sheet is from the second setting (cf. BMC IB. 24473), printed in a variant of Aldus' 114-mm. roman type that is found in no other edition.
HC 13218*; BMC V, 559 (IB. 24473-75); CIBN P-539; Harvard/Walsh 2666-68; IGI 7952; Pr 5567; Goff P-886.
Super-chancery 2
FIRST EDITION of Poliziano's collected works, and apparently the first printed collected edition of a modern author. Poliziano was preparing an edition of his letters when he died; the project was then taken on by the Bolognese humanist Alessandro Sarti. An edition, of which a single sheet survives, was undertaken by Plato de Benedictus at Bologna, who had printed various of Poliziano's individual works and a collection of his vernacular writings in 1494, but the project was cut short by Plato's death in August 1496. To Poliziano's already published works and translations Aldus added his letters, Latin and Greek poems, and several short treatises. A counterfeit edition was published the following year in Brescia, with a false Florentine imprint.
The Hebrew type used on C5v and H8r is unrecorded in BMC, Proctor, or Haebler, and differs from the Hebrew types used later by Aldus. In this copy the first sheet is from the second setting (cf. BMC IB. 24473), printed in a variant of Aldus' 114-mm. roman type that is found in no other edition.
HC 13218*; BMC V, 559 (IB. 24473-75); CIBN P-539; Harvard/Walsh 2666-68; IGI 7952; Pr 5567; Goff P-886.