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URBANUS Bellunensis (ca. 1443-1524). Institutiones graecae grammaticae. Edited by Aldus Manutius (1449-1515). Venice: Aldus Manutius, January 1497/98.
Super-chancery 4o (205 x 161 mm). Collation: a10 b-z & A8 B10 C2 (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r editor/publisher's dedication to Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, a2v Greek alphabet and prayers in Greek, a3r text, B9r register, B10r colophon, B10v blank, C2 errata). 214 leaves. 27-28 lines. Types: 2:114R, 2:114Gk. First state of the errata as described by Renouard (but with 3, not 4 lines on the last page). Full-page woodcut and letterpress diagram on a4v. Opening 7-line historiated woodcut initial and a few 3-line woodcut decorative initials, spaces for initials, some with printed guide-letters. (Some light foxing to extreme outer margins, occasional insignificant marginal dampstaining, few small wormholes to lower gutter margins of first 3 leaves.) Contemporary Italian quarter goatskin over wooden boards, the leather panelled in blind with repeated ropework tools and fillets, original leather border-strip attached with nails, pair of original leather fore-edge clasps and brass catches (one clasp lacking), vellum endleaves from a 14th-century theological manuscript, abbreviated title ("VRB") ink-letter Italian monastic breviary, author's name ("VRB") ink-lettered on fore-edge (rebacked, lacking top portion of border-strip on upper cover, boards a bit wormed). Provenance: Copious neat contemporary marginalia in Greek and Latin.
FIRST EDITION of the first Greek grammar with rules given in Latin. The work was commissioned by Aldus, who had previously published a Latin translation along with his edition of Constantine Lascaris's grammar (1494/95, the first work from his press), without however rendering Lascaris's text intelligible to non-Greek readers. Urbanus' work met an enormous need and was frequently reprinted throughout the 16th century in Italy and France. Renouard comments on the rarity of this first edition, citing a letter from Erasmus, who was unable to find a single copy.
A FINE COPY with interesting contemporary annotations reflecting a careful study of the text and of Greek grammar. HC 2763*=16098*; BMC V, 558 (IA. 22427-29); CIBN U-27; IGI 10029; Renouard Alde, pp. 11-12; Sander 7436; Goff U-66.
Super-chancery 4o (205 x 161 mm). Collation: a10 b-z & A8 B10 C2 (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r editor/publisher's dedication to Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, a2v Greek alphabet and prayers in Greek, a3r text, B9r register, B10r colophon, B10v blank, C2 errata). 214 leaves. 27-28 lines. Types: 2:114R, 2:114Gk. First state of the errata as described by Renouard (but with 3, not 4 lines on the last page). Full-page woodcut and letterpress diagram on a4v. Opening 7-line historiated woodcut initial and a few 3-line woodcut decorative initials, spaces for initials, some with printed guide-letters. (Some light foxing to extreme outer margins, occasional insignificant marginal dampstaining, few small wormholes to lower gutter margins of first 3 leaves.) Contemporary Italian quarter goatskin over wooden boards, the leather panelled in blind with repeated ropework tools and fillets, original leather border-strip attached with nails, pair of original leather fore-edge clasps and brass catches (one clasp lacking), vellum endleaves from a 14th-century theological manuscript, abbreviated title ("VRB") ink-letter Italian monastic breviary, author's name ("VRB") ink-lettered on fore-edge (rebacked, lacking top portion of border-strip on upper cover, boards a bit wormed). Provenance: Copious neat contemporary marginalia in Greek and Latin.
FIRST EDITION of the first Greek grammar with rules given in Latin. The work was commissioned by Aldus, who had previously published a Latin translation along with his edition of Constantine Lascaris's grammar (1494/95, the first work from his press), without however rendering Lascaris's text intelligible to non-Greek readers. Urbanus' work met an enormous need and was frequently reprinted throughout the 16th century in Italy and France. Renouard comments on the rarity of this first edition, citing a letter from Erasmus, who was unable to find a single copy.
A FINE COPY with interesting contemporary annotations reflecting a careful study of the text and of Greek grammar. HC 2763*=16098*; BMC V, 558 (IA. 22427-29); CIBN U-27; IGI 10029; Renouard Alde, pp. 11-12; Sander 7436; Goff U-66.