Lot 2
Gaza (Theodorus), Introductivæ grammatices libri quatuor, 1495.
Estimate: £7,000 - 10,000
Description
⁂ Please note, the description of this lot has changed ⁂
Gaza (Theodorus) Introductivæ grammatices libri quatuor, collation: a8 b?-l?8 a8 b10 AA-L?8 MM4, 198 ff., 31 lines, Greek and some Roman type, woodcut initials and head-pieces, contemporary ink marginalia in Greek, first f. supplied from another copy, a few marginal repairs, some mostly marginal water-staining, occasional light soiling and spotting, a few small stains, handsome contemporary blind-stamped calf-backed wooden boards, contemporary ink ms. title in Greek to lower cover, rubbed, folio (310 x 215mm.), [Venice], [Aldus Manutius], [25 December, 1495].
⁂ A very good copy with wide margins of the handsomely printed editio princeps of this Greek grammar. Gaza was from Thessalonica and taught in Constantinople before arriving in Italy in 1440, where he taught Greek in Ferrara and Rome. Later, he assisted Cardinal Bessarion in the writing of In calumniatorem Platonis.
Provenance: Pierre Bergé, Alde Manuce (1450-1515) Une Collection, November, 2004, lot 5.
Literature: BMC V, 553; Goff G-110; HC 7500; Sander 7236; Ahmanson-Murphy 5; Renouard, Alde, 4:2.
Description
⁂ Please note, the description of this lot has changed ⁂
Gaza (Theodorus) Introductivæ grammatices libri quatuor, collation: a8 b?-l?8 a8 b10 AA-L?8 MM4, 198 ff., 31 lines, Greek and some Roman type, woodcut initials and head-pieces, contemporary ink marginalia in Greek, first f. supplied from another copy, a few marginal repairs, some mostly marginal water-staining, occasional light soiling and spotting, a few small stains, handsome contemporary blind-stamped calf-backed wooden boards, contemporary ink ms. title in Greek to lower cover, rubbed, folio (310 x 215mm.), [Venice], [Aldus Manutius], [25 December, 1495].
⁂ A very good copy with wide margins of the handsomely printed editio princeps of this Greek grammar. Gaza was from Thessalonica and taught in Constantinople before arriving in Italy in 1440, where he taught Greek in Ferrara and Rome. Later, he assisted Cardinal Bessarion in the writing of In calumniatorem Platonis.
Provenance: Pierre Bergé, Alde Manuce (1450-1515) Une Collection, November, 2004, lot 5.
Literature: BMC V, 553; Goff G-110; HC 7500; Sander 7236; Ahmanson-Murphy 5; Renouard, Alde, 4:2.
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