Apollōniou Rhodiou Argonautikōn Prōton
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- roll 521, item 1
Publisher: Lorenzo de Alopa
Published: 1496
Place of publication: Florence
Language: grc
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Argonauts (Greek mythology); Poetry
Work titles: Argonautica
Notes: Edited by Janus Lascaris.

Title from text incipit (leaf [alpha]2r).

Begins (leaf [alpha]1r): Genos Apollōniou tou poiētou tōn argonautikōn.

Place of publication and date from colophon; printer from Goff.

Colophon (leaf [chi]3r): En Phlōrentiai etei chiliostōi tetrakosiostōi enenēkostōi hektōi.

First edition.

Signatures: [alpha]-[theta]⁸ [Iota]⁸ [kappa]-[phi]⁸ [chi]⁴ ([chi]4 blank).

Greek text in uncials surrounded by the scholia (33 lines, variable) of Lucillus, Sophocles and Theon in minuscules.

Printed on sheets of "median"-size paper.

Hain-Copinger, 1292*.

Proctor, 6407.

Goff, A-924.

GW, 2271.

BM 15th cent., VI, 667 (IB.28023).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ia00924000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2964-2965.

Booklabel of Ambroise Firmin Didot (no. 100 in pt. 1 of the Hôtel Drouot sale catalogue of his library, June 1878); bookplate of Sir Thomas Brooke (p. 23 in vol. 1 of his 1891 catalogue; no. 32 in the Sotheby sale catalogue of his brother, Sir John Arthur Brooke, who inherited his books, May 1921); bookplate of William King Richardson.

Imperfect: wanting the final blank leaf.

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication.

A few contemporary MS corrections to the text.

Bound in 19th-century red morocco, edges gilt.