THUCYDIDES (c.460/455 - c.399 B.C.). [ De bello Peloponnesiaco , in Greek]. Edited by Aldus Manutius (c. 1452-1515). Venice: Aldus Manutius May 1502.
THUCYDIDES (c.460/455 - c.399 B.C.). [ De bello Peloponnesiaco , in Greek]. Edited by Aldus Manutius (c. 1452-1515). Venice: Aldus Manutius May 1502. 2° (290 x 198mm). Text in Greek and Latin. Large red initials in first chapters. (Without blank AA8 and OP4, light soiling and staining.) 18th-century red morocco, gilt border on covers, spine with gilt decorations and title, red speckled edges (extremities lightly rubbed and corners bumped). Provenance : few Greek marginal annotations — Michael Smith (booklabel). EDITIO PRINCEPS of the most important work in Greek historiography. According to Enoch Powell ( The Aldine Scholia to Thucydides 1936), Aldus edited the text from a Cretan manuscript, Paris BnF suppl.gr.256 from the Pantin Collection (nr 40); Martin Sicherl ( Griechische Erstausgaben des Aldus Manutius Druckvorlagen 1997) found no evidence in the manuscript of printer's use, suggesting that another Cretan copy of the same recension served as exemplar. In any case, the printer's copytext was undistinguished, much inferior to the lost manuscript from which Lorenzo Valla had made his Latin translation (Treviso: c. 1483 [Klebs 971.1]). The recipient of Aldus's dedicatory letter, Daniele Renier, was a Venetian senator, procurator of San Marco and collector of Hebrew, oriental and classical manuscripts. The printer mentions how Renier frequently comes to his shop to see what Greek or Latin text might be under production. Ahmanson-Murphy 57; Hoffman III, 747; Isaac 12777; Laurenziana 60; PMM 102; Renouard Alde , 33:4; Sansoviniana 60.
THUCYDIDES (c.460/455 - c.399 B.C.). [ De bello Peloponnesiaco , in Greek]. Edited by Aldus Manutius (c. 1452-1515). Venice: Aldus Manutius May 1502.
THUCYDIDES (c.460/455 - c.399 B.C.). [ De bello Peloponnesiaco , in Greek]. Edited by Aldus Manutius (c. 1452-1515). Venice: Aldus Manutius May 1502. 2° (290 x 198mm). Text in Greek and Latin. Large red initials in first chapters. (Without blank AA8 and OP4, light soiling and staining.) 18th-century red morocco, gilt border on covers, spine with gilt decorations and title, red speckled edges (extremities lightly rubbed and corners bumped). Provenance : few Greek marginal annotations — Michael Smith (booklabel). EDITIO PRINCEPS of the most important work in Greek historiography. According to Enoch Powell ( The Aldine Scholia to Thucydides 1936), Aldus edited the text from a Cretan manuscript, Paris BnF suppl.gr.256 from the Pantin Collection (nr 40); Martin Sicherl ( Griechische Erstausgaben des Aldus Manutius Druckvorlagen 1997) found no evidence in the manuscript of printer's use, suggesting that another Cretan copy of the same recension served as exemplar. In any case, the printer's copytext was undistinguished, much inferior to the lost manuscript from which Lorenzo Valla had made his Latin translation (Treviso: c. 1483 [Klebs 971.1]). The recipient of Aldus's dedicatory letter, Daniele Renier, was a Venetian senator, procurator of San Marco and collector of Hebrew, oriental and classical manuscripts. The printer mentions how Renier frequently comes to his shop to see what Greek or Latin text might be under production. Ahmanson-Murphy 57; Hoffman III, 747; Isaac 12777; Laurenziana 60; PMM 102; Renouard Alde , 33:4; Sansoviniana 60.
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