DIOGENES LAERTIUS (fl. first half 3rd century). Vitae et sententiae philosophorum . Translated from Greek into Latin by Ambrosius Traversarius (1386-1439, Camaldulensian monk). Ed. Benedictus Brognolus (1427-1502). Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 14th August 1475. Chancery 2° (276 x 183mm). Collation: [1 12 (-11 cancelled blank) 2 10 3-22 8 23 6 ] (1/1 r blank, 1/1 v editor's dedicatory letter to Laurentius Georgius and Jacobus Baduarius, 1/3 r translator's letter to Cosimo de' Medici, 1/4 r table of contents, 1/5 r text, incipit: [ P ] hilosophiam a barbaris initia sumpsisse plerique autumant , 21/5 r Epicurus's letter to Herodotus, incipit: His qui nequeunt o Herodote singula quae a nobis de natura scripta sunt ad purum intelligere , 23/5 v colophon, 23/6 blank). 186 leaves (without the final blank). Roman type 1 B :111 (text) and Greek 115 (occasional words). 34 lines. Initial-spaces with guide-letters. (One or two minute wormholes, light damp-staining at the beginning.) 18th-century Italian vellum. Provenance : some early manuscript marginalia (fading); Sir George Shuckburgh (armorial bookplate). Second edition, the first edited by Benedetto Brognolo de Legnago, who in his preface highly praises Jenson as the first among the numerous Venetian typographers. "The account of Epicureanism, given with long direct quotations from letters of Epicurus, is perhaps the most valuable feature of Diogenes' book, not only for modern students, but also because it gave the Quattrocento humanists a fresh and reliable body of information about a philosophical school which Cicero had ridiculed and misunderstood" (N.G. Wilson, From Byzantium to Italy p. 33). Traversari was obliged to turn for help to the Florentine humanist, Carlo Marsuppini, for dealing with the Epicurean philosophy in Book 10. HC *6199; GW 8379; Pr 4095; BMC V, 175 (IB. 19684-5); Goff D-220; IGI 3459; Klebs 338.2; Flodr p. 137.
DIOGENES LAERTIUS (fl. first half 3rd century). Vitae et sententiae philosophorum . Translated from Greek into Latin by Ambrosius Traversarius (1386-1439, Camaldulensian monk). Ed. Benedictus Brognolus (1427-1502). Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 14th August 1475. Chancery 2° (276 x 183mm). Collation: [1 12 (-11 cancelled blank) 2 10 3-22 8 23 6 ] (1/1 r blank, 1/1 v editor's dedicatory letter to Laurentius Georgius and Jacobus Baduarius, 1/3 r translator's letter to Cosimo de' Medici, 1/4 r table of contents, 1/5 r text, incipit: [ P ] hilosophiam a barbaris initia sumpsisse plerique autumant , 21/5 r Epicurus's letter to Herodotus, incipit: His qui nequeunt o Herodote singula quae a nobis de natura scripta sunt ad purum intelligere , 23/5 v colophon, 23/6 blank). 186 leaves (without the final blank). Roman type 1 B :111 (text) and Greek 115 (occasional words). 34 lines. Initial-spaces with guide-letters. (One or two minute wormholes, light damp-staining at the beginning.) 18th-century Italian vellum. Provenance : some early manuscript marginalia (fading); Sir George Shuckburgh (armorial bookplate). Second edition, the first edited by Benedetto Brognolo de Legnago, who in his preface highly praises Jenson as the first among the numerous Venetian typographers. "The account of Epicureanism, given with long direct quotations from letters of Epicurus, is perhaps the most valuable feature of Diogenes' book, not only for modern students, but also because it gave the Quattrocento humanists a fresh and reliable body of information about a philosophical school which Cicero had ridiculed and misunderstood" (N.G. Wilson, From Byzantium to Italy p. 33). Traversari was obliged to turn for help to the Florentine humanist, Carlo Marsuppini, for dealing with the Epicurean philosophy in Book 10. HC *6199; GW 8379; Pr 4095; BMC V, 175 (IB. 19684-5); Goff D-220; IGI 3459; Klebs 338.2; Flodr p. 137.
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