Description
Chrysoloras (Manuel) Erotemata [graece], 86 ff. (of 88, lacking ?1&4), 19 lines, Greek type, 3-line opening initial with marginal decoration, paragraph-marks, underlining, marginalia and inter-linear annotations in red, ?1 lower corner repaired, ?4 (?from another copy) with lower third repaired with loss of text, some staining and spotting, 19th century red crushed morocco, gilt, spine very slightly faded, rubbed at extremities, g.e., [BMC VI, 690; Goff C-491; HC5015], 8vo, [Florence], [Bartolommeo di Libri], [c.1498-1500].
⁂ Rare. This is the only copy of this edition to have appeared at auction since 1965, last selling in 1999. The third edition of the complete text of the most important Greek grammar of the Italian Renaissance. Chrysoloras had been brought to Florence in 1397 by Coluccio Salutati to teach Greek. In 1400 the Visconti enticed him away to teach at the University of Pavia.
Lot 209
Chrysoloras (Manuel) Erotemata [graece], 1498.
Hammer Price: £6,000
Description
Chrysoloras (Manuel) Erotemata [graece], 86 ff. (of 88, lacking ?1&4), 19 lines, Greek type, 3-line opening initial with marginal decoration, paragraph-marks, underlining, marginalia and inter-linear annotations in red, ?1 lower corner repaired, ?4 (?from another copy) with lower third repaired with loss of text, some staining and spotting, 19th century red crushed morocco, gilt, spine very slightly faded, rubbed at extremities, g.e., [BMC VI, 690; Goff C-491; HC5015], 8vo, [Florence], [Bartolommeo di Libri], [c.1498-1500].
⁂ Rare. This is the only copy of this edition to have appeared at auction since 1965, last selling in 1999. The third edition of the complete text of the most important Greek grammar of the Italian Renaissance. Chrysoloras had been brought to Florence in 1397 by Coluccio Salutati to teach Greek. In 1400 the Visconti enticed him away to teach at the University of Pavia.