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Komodiai hendeka. Comoediae undecim
by ARISTOPHANES
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About This Item
8vo, ff. 279, [1]. Greek type, sporadic Italic and Roman. woodcut printer's device on t-p and last leaf, historiated initials. Occasional marginal damp stains and light foxing, short ms. notes on lower pastedown. Contemporary limp vellum with early title handwritten to spine. Remains of ties. A very good copy.
Greek edition of Aristophanes' comedies printed in Venice by Giovanni Griffio and edited by humanist Angelo Canini from Anghiari. In the preface, Canini addresses the young "lovers of Greek and eager to learn" in an epistolary form, saying that he wanted to prepare a text as correct as possible for the needs of their studies. Taking up the invitation of the publisher Giovanni Griffio, the editor "healed many wounds", limiting himself to "marking the incurable passages with an asterisk". From his statement that he did not have "the possibility of using an ancient manuscript", it can be deduced that he reprinted an earlier edition collating it perhaps with a few more recent manuscripts and freeing her from the most glaring errors. Canini promised to add an explanatory commentary to the text but, as Griffio points out in a note at the end of the volume (f. 279v), he was prevented from doing so by a long journey and by pressing commitments. Canini's edition is very important for the philological reconstruction of Aristophanes' texts. It was reprinted in Lyon in 1548 with a short appendix explaining the method followed in the amendments.
Graesse, I, p. 206; Edit16 CNCE 2864; USTC 810854.
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- Bookseller
- Orsi Libri ALAI, ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Komodiai hendeka. Comoediae undecim
- Author
- ARISTOPHANES
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Publisher
- Ioan. Gryphius excudebat
- Place of Publication
- [Venice]
- Date Published
- 1548
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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