Lot 222
Stobaeus (Joannes) Eclogarum libri duo, Antwerp, ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1575.
Hammer Price: £700
Description
Stobaeus (Joannes) Eclogarum libri duo, 2 parts in 1, collation: *6, A-Q6, R8, S-T6, V4; [12], 236, [4] pp., woodcut device on title, contemporary limp vellum, inked title on spine, lacking ties, folio (350 x 232 mm.), Antwerp, ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1575.
*** Editio princeps of Stobeaus' Eclogae, dedicated by the printer Christopher Plantin to Cardinal Gugliemo Sirleto, one of the greatest sixteenth-century collectors of Greek manuscripts. The volume was edited by the philologian Willem Canter (1542-1575), a correspondent of Fulvio Orsini and Joseph Scaliger, who mainly based his work on a manuscript owned by the Hungarian humanist Johannes Sambucus (1531-1581), collated with a codex sent to Plantin by the aforementioned Cardinal Sirleto.
Literature: Adams S1879; Voet 2263; Hoffmann III, 635-636; A.S.Q. Visser, J. Sambucus and the Learned Image, Leiden 2005, pp. 38-40.
Provenance: Alessandro Bozza (ex-libris on front pastedown).
Description
Stobaeus (Joannes) Eclogarum libri duo, 2 parts in 1, collation: *6, A-Q6, R8, S-T6, V4; [12], 236, [4] pp., woodcut device on title, contemporary limp vellum, inked title on spine, lacking ties, folio (350 x 232 mm.), Antwerp, ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1575.
*** Editio princeps of Stobeaus' Eclogae, dedicated by the printer Christopher Plantin to Cardinal Gugliemo Sirleto, one of the greatest sixteenth-century collectors of Greek manuscripts. The volume was edited by the philologian Willem Canter (1542-1575), a correspondent of Fulvio Orsini and Joseph Scaliger, who mainly based his work on a manuscript owned by the Hungarian humanist Johannes Sambucus (1531-1581), collated with a codex sent to Plantin by the aforementioned Cardinal Sirleto.
Literature: Adams S1879; Voet 2263; Hoffmann III, 635-636; A.S.Q. Visser, J. Sambucus and the Learned Image, Leiden 2005, pp. 38-40.
Provenance: Alessandro Bozza (ex-libris on front pastedown).
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