Thēsauros : keras amaltheias kai kēpoi Adōnidos = Thesavrvs : cornu copiæ & horti Adonidis.
Varinus,Camers, Bishop of Nocera,1450-1537.
Antinori, Carlo,active 1496-1540.
Poliziano, Angelo,1454-1494.
Manuzio, Aldo,1449 or 1450-1515.
Valeriano, Pierio,1477-1560.
Arsenios,Archbishop of Monemvasia,1465-1535.
Forteguerri, Scipione,1466-1515.
Dionysius, Aelius,active 2nd century.
Eustathius,Archbishop of Thessalonica,-approximately 1194.
Herodianus, Aelius,active 2nd century.
Choeroboscus, Georgius.
Manuzio, Aldo,1449 or 1450-1515,printer.
Waddell, George,active 1736,bookseller.StEdNL
Stoller, Ludovic,former owner.StEdNL: Inc.194*
Baxald, Francis,former owner.StEdNL: Inc.194*
Paterson, Henry James,former owner.StEdNL: Inc.194*
Venetiis : In domo Aldi Romani summa cura laboréq[ue] praemagno.,
mense Augusto M. IIII. D. [August 1496]
Title romanized from Greek. Contents on title page in Greek and on title page verso in Latin. Text in Greek.
Imprint from colophon.
Begun by Guarino of Favera and Carlo Antinori, assisted by Angelo Poliziano; edited by Aldo Manuzio and Giovanni Valeriano.
Includes a letter from Aldus the Elder; a letter from Politian to Guarino da Favera (Varinus Camers); poems in Greek by Politian, Aristobulus Apostolides (Arsenius Apostolis), Scipione Forteguerri (Carteromachus) and Aldus the Elder; a letter from Forteguerri to Guarino; a letter from Guarino to Piero de' Medici.
Colophon: Venetiis in domo Aldi Romani summa cura laboréq[ue] præmagno. Mense Augusto M. IIII. D. Ab Ill. Senatu V. concessum est nequis &c. ut in cæteris. Vale qui legeris.
From title page: Ailiou Dionysiou peri aklitōn rhēmatōn -- Ek tou Eustathiou kai allōn endoxōn eklogai kata stoicheion -- Skēmatismoi tōn eimi kai eimi rhēmatōn -- Peri tōn tou kathezeasthai sēmantikōn -- Ta tou poreusthai sēmantika -- Ek tou Hērōdianou parekbolai megalou rhēmatos -- Ek tōn autou paragōsai disklitōn rhēmatōn -- Koiroboskou pros tous en pasi rhēmasi kanonas zētoentas, ho moiotētas -- Tou autou peri tou ephe kystikou n -- Peri anomalōn rhēmatōn kata stoicheion -- Hērōdianou peri enklinomenōn kai enklitikōn synenklitikōn moriōn -- En tōn Choiroboskou peri enklinomenōn -- Anōnymou peri enklinomenōn -- Ek tōn Iōannou grammatikou peri dialektōn -- Eustathiou peri tōn par' Homērō dialektōn -- Kai hallōs peri dialektōn tou para korinthou para ekblētheisōn -- Peri tōn eis ō thēlykōn onomatōn.
From title page verso: Aelii Dionysii de indeclinabilibus uerbis -- Ex co[m]mentariis Eustathii ac aliorum grammaticorum electa per ordinem litterarum -- Formationes uerborum sum & eo utilissimæ -- De iis quæ sedere significant -- Quot sint quæ ire significant -- Ex scriptis Herodiani excerpta de magno uerbo scitu dignissima & quæ non passim inuenies -- Ex scriptis eiusdem deductiones difficulter declinatorum uerborum -- Chœrobosci ad eos q[ue] in o[m]nibus uerbis regulas quæru[n]t & similitudines -- Eiusdem in quibus ob malesonantiam attrahatur n -- De anomalis & inæqualibus uerbis secundum ordinem alphabeti -- Herodiani de inclinatis & encliticis & coecliticis dictiunculis -- Ex scriptis Choerobosci de iis quæ inclinantur encliticisq[ue] -- Aelii Dionysii de iis quæ inclinantur & encliticis -- Sine nomine de iis quae inclinantur -- Ex scriptis Ioannis grammatici de idiomatibus -- Eustathii de idiomatibus quæ apud Homerum -- Item aliter de idiomatibus ex iis quæ a Corintho decerpta -- De fœmininis nominibus quæ desinu[n]t in omega.
Signatures: pi¹⁰ a[alpha]-i[iota]⁸ K[kappa]-L[lambda]⁸ z[psi]⁸ & [omega]⁴ A[Alpha]-D[Delta]⁸ E[Epsilon]⁶ F[Zeta]⁸ G[Eta]-K[Kappa]⁸·⁶ L[Lambda]⁸
38 lines of Latin, 30 lines of Greek. Types: 146 Gk., 114 R., 114 Gk. First letters of paragraphs set out. Catchwords at end of quires. Capital spaces with guide letters.
Each lettered signature also lettered in Greek characters.
With marginal annotations.
Bibliographical note in French on back flyleaf.
Goff
Bodleian Lib. 15th cent.,
GW
Renouard
Hain-Copinger,
BM 15th cent.,
ISTC
Aldine Press, 2001
BSB-Ink
Polain
IDL
IGI
IBP
Sajó-Soltész
Madsen
Oates
Rhodes. Oxford Colleges,
Proctor
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Bought by the Advocates Library from George Waddell for £0-10-0 and paid for 17 June 1736.
Early 18th-century? leather with triple gilt fillet border on front and back boards, six raised bands of spine forming six gilt tooled compartments and one with leather spine label and gilt rolled board edges. A large 19th-century Bibliotheca Advocatorum has been gilt stamped on front and back boards.
Ink ownership inscription of Ludovic[?] Stoller at head of title with that of Francis Baxald below. Paris is written in ink and £40 in pencil on verso of front free endpaper. Pencil number 13366 on back free endpaper. Part of the Paterson Collection, acquired by the Library in 1988.
19th-century dark green morocco with triple fillet gilt rolled border on front and back boards, double fillet gilt rolled board edges, floral gilt tooled turn-ins, 6 compartment gilt tooled spine, gilt edges and marbled pastedowns and endpapers.
Greek language
Italy Venice.