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Extensively Annotated In Latin & Greek
IN a Contemporary Hand
AESCHINES/DEMOSTHENES. [ED REUCHLIN, Johannes]. ТΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΕΞΟΧΩΝ ΡΗΤΟΡΩΝ Άισχινου καί Δημοσθενους…Graeciae excellentissium Oratorum, Aeschinis & Demosthenis, orations adversariae. Paris, Christian Wechel, 1543.
4to., 162 pp., (1) [Wechel’s printer’s mark on verso]. A-T4, V6. Ex libris of P.A. Piovano on verso of vellum reinforcement; illegible inscription on title, which shows soiling top and bottom; bound in old manuscript leaf containing a Latin contract, most likely in a French hand; otherwise, a fresh unsophisticated copy.
[Bound with:]
ISOKRATES. ΈΛΕΝΗΣ ΕΓΚΩΜΙΟΝ. Helenae Encomium. Paris, Joannis Lodovicus, 1538. (8) ff. Bound in old vellum leaf.
$5,500 Two extremely rare separately issued Paris student editions of Morceaux choisis of two of the Attic orators as edited by the great German humanist Reuchlin, along with an early, if not the earliest separate edition of Isocrates’ Helen, editorship apparently anonymous. These student editions were printed by a number of Paris university publishers with extra spacing between printed lines and generous margins to allow for (legible) interlinear and marginal annotation, in the case of classical texts, usually cribs read by the instructor in lecture, but also exegetical notes. They were printed and reprinted more often than is known, but all editions are extremely rare. There are no copies of either of the present editions in OCLC. The present example is among the most thoroughly annotated we have encountered: 64 pages of Demosthenes’ most famous oration, On the Crown, have been extensively annotated in Greek and Latin by an anonymous student in a minuscule but legible hand; the opening (and only the opening) of the Helen is annotated as well.
1) Hoffmann I.24.4; Appears to be a reprint of Wechel’s 1522 (Brunet I.76/1531 ed (Adams A-254) but with some re-setting (different collation).
2) Not in Hoffmann or Adams; not in Brunet. The earliest separate edition of this oration listed by him dates from 1550 (Paris Morel).
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