[Tou sophōtatou Ploutarchou Parallelon. Bioi Rōmaiōn kai Hellenōn. 49]
Subtitle: Sapientissimi Plutarchi Paralellum, vitae Romanorum & Graecorum. Quadraginta nouem
Contributors: Giunta, Filippo, 1450-1517, printer
Publisher: In aedibus Philippi Iuntae
Published: 1517
Place of publication: Florentiae
Language: grc
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Classical biography; Early works to 1800; Biography
Other titles: [Parallelon. Bioi Rōmaiōn kai Hellenōn. 49]; Sapientissimi Plutarchi Paralellum, vitae Romanorum & Graecorum. Quadraginta nouem; Paralellum, vitae Romanorum & Graecorum. Quadraginta nouem
Work titles: Lives
Notes: Catalogued from an incomplete copy.

First edition of Plutarch's Lives.

Printer's device on the verso of the final leaf.

Imprint from colophon. Colophon reads: Diis auspicibus, Libro qui Vitae Plutarchi inscribitur, non sine maxima diligentia, multorumq[ue] antiquorum uoluminum continua lectione, summa manus imposita est. Florentiae in aedibus Philippi iuntae. Anno uirginei partus humanqaeq[ue] salutis. M.D. XVII. Die. xxyii mensi Augusti. Leonis .X. Parae nostri anno quinto.

The "Registrum" tells that the gathering inserted between nos. 202 and 203 containing the life of Sulla is supposed to have 10 leaves.

"Marcello Virgilio Rei. p. Florentinae a secretis. Philippus Iunta. S."--Leaf 2.

First part of title in Greek characters, transliterated.

Parallel title in Latin, text in Greek only.

Several errors in foliation, including omission of leaves 331-337.

Signatures: a-z⁸ & ⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]¹⁰ ⁽[rum] ¹⁰ blank⁾ A⁻R⁸ (R8 blank).

Spaces left with guide letters for initials.

BM STC Italian ; p. 528

Brunet, IV, 735

Dibdin. Classics, II, 342