URBANUS BELLUNENSIS (Urbano VALERIANI, c.1443-1524). Institutiones graecae grammaticae , in Latin and Greek. Venice: Aldus Manutius January 1497/98. Super-chancery 4° (208 x 160mm). Collation: a 1 0 b-z & A 8 B 1 0 C 2 (a1 title, a2r dedicatory address from Aldo to Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, a2v Greek alphabet, Pater Noster and Ave Maria in Greek, a3 text, B9r register, B10r colophon, C1 errata). 211 (of 214 leaves, lacking title and errata). 27 lines. Types: 2:114 roman and greek. Full-page woodcut and typographical diagram on a4v, woodcut vinework initials, initial spaces with printed guide-letter. (Dampstain at top margin into text, and some foremargins, one gathering [a4-7] loose, occasional light soiling.) 19th-century diced half-russia, calf and paper labels on spine, ?author's name lettered along bottom-edges (worn, spine-head chipped, leather fore-corners rubbed off, joints starting, front endpaper renewed). Provenance: some annotations in Latin and Greek by a 17th-century reader -- Thomas Edward Watson (bookseller's invoice laid-in, dated 3 April 1916; by descent to the present owners). FIRST EDITION of an extremely influential Greek grammar, the first to give the rules in Latin. Aldus Manutius founded his press at Venice in 1495 with the express purpose of printing classical -- particularly Greek -- texts in the original language, and the Greek grammar of Constantine Lascaris was his first publication. That grammar, however, was written entirely in Greek, and therefore only accessible to scholars already conversant with the language. To encourage further the study of Greek, Aldus asked his friend Urbanus to compose a Greek grammar written in both Latin and Greek, thereby making accessible the language of Aristotle and Homer to a significantly wider public. HC *2763=*16098; BMC V, 558 (IA. 22427-29); CIBN U-27; IGI 10029; Ahmanson-Murphy 20; Renouard, Alde , pp. 11-1; Goff U-66.
URBANUS BELLUNENSIS (Urbano VALERIANI, c.1443-1524). Institutiones graecae grammaticae , in Latin and Greek. Venice: Aldus Manutius January 1497/98. Super-chancery 4° (208 x 160mm). Collation: a 1 0 b-z & A 8 B 1 0 C 2 (a1 title, a2r dedicatory address from Aldo to Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, a2v Greek alphabet, Pater Noster and Ave Maria in Greek, a3 text, B9r register, B10r colophon, C1 errata). 211 (of 214 leaves, lacking title and errata). 27 lines. Types: 2:114 roman and greek. Full-page woodcut and typographical diagram on a4v, woodcut vinework initials, initial spaces with printed guide-letter. (Dampstain at top margin into text, and some foremargins, one gathering [a4-7] loose, occasional light soiling.) 19th-century diced half-russia, calf and paper labels on spine, ?author's name lettered along bottom-edges (worn, spine-head chipped, leather fore-corners rubbed off, joints starting, front endpaper renewed). Provenance: some annotations in Latin and Greek by a 17th-century reader -- Thomas Edward Watson (bookseller's invoice laid-in, dated 3 April 1916; by descent to the present owners). FIRST EDITION of an extremely influential Greek grammar, the first to give the rules in Latin. Aldus Manutius founded his press at Venice in 1495 with the express purpose of printing classical -- particularly Greek -- texts in the original language, and the Greek grammar of Constantine Lascaris was his first publication. That grammar, however, was written entirely in Greek, and therefore only accessible to scholars already conversant with the language. To encourage further the study of Greek, Aldus asked his friend Urbanus to compose a Greek grammar written in both Latin and Greek, thereby making accessible the language of Aristotle and Homer to a significantly wider public. HC *2763=*16098; BMC V, 558 (IA. 22427-29); CIBN U-27; IGI 10029; Ahmanson-Murphy 20; Renouard, Alde , pp. 11-1; Goff U-66.
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