THEOCRITUS (c.310-250 B.C.). Idyllia , with scholia, in Greek. [Rome:] Zacharias Callierges for Cornelius Benignus, 15 January 1516. 2 parts in one volume, 8° (156 x 103mm). Greek type, privilege at end in roman type, woodcut diagrams, printer's device on title and publisher's device on last page [Vaccaro p.180], initial spaces with guide-letter. (Lacking k4.5 of the scholia, occasional light browning.) 17th-century vellum, flat spine with 18th-century red leather label. Provenance : early annotations in Greek and Latin (shaved) -- Biblioteca Altempsiana (Markus Sittikus von Hohenhems, Cardinal Altemps [1531-95] and his nephew Mark Sittich, Abp. of Salzburg [1574-1619]; title inscription) -- Chatsworth (bookplate). First edition of the enlarged and corrected text, the first with the scholia, and the SECOND GREEK BOOK PRINTED AT ROME. Following important activity as a printer of Greek in Venice, Callierges was called to Rome with the support of the humanist Pope Leo X to help cultivate Greek learning there. He taught at the newly established Greek gymnasium in a house of Agostino Chigi, and his first two books, including Theocritus, were published for Chigi's chancellor, Cornelio Begnino. Adams T-460; Hoffmann III, 474-5; Legrand I, p. 49 ('Edition rare et très recherchée').
THEOCRITUS (c.310-250 B.C.). Idyllia , with scholia, in Greek. [Rome:] Zacharias Callierges for Cornelius Benignus, 15 January 1516. 2 parts in one volume, 8° (156 x 103mm). Greek type, privilege at end in roman type, woodcut diagrams, printer's device on title and publisher's device on last page [Vaccaro p.180], initial spaces with guide-letter. (Lacking k4.5 of the scholia, occasional light browning.) 17th-century vellum, flat spine with 18th-century red leather label. Provenance : early annotations in Greek and Latin (shaved) -- Biblioteca Altempsiana (Markus Sittikus von Hohenhems, Cardinal Altemps [1531-95] and his nephew Mark Sittich, Abp. of Salzburg [1574-1619]; title inscription) -- Chatsworth (bookplate). First edition of the enlarged and corrected text, the first with the scholia, and the SECOND GREEK BOOK PRINTED AT ROME. Following important activity as a printer of Greek in Venice, Callierges was called to Rome with the support of the humanist Pope Leo X to help cultivate Greek learning there. He taught at the newly established Greek gymnasium in a house of Agostino Chigi, and his first two books, including Theocritus, were published for Chigi's chancellor, Cornelio Begnino. Adams T-460; Hoffmann III, 474-5; Legrand I, p. 49 ('Edition rare et très recherchée').
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