Ἐπιστολαὶ διαφόρων φιλοσόφων ῥητόρῶν σοφιστῶν; ἑξ πρὸς τοῖς είκοσι. ὧν τὰ ὀνόματα ἐν τᾖ ἑξῆς εὑρήσεις σελίδι [...]
Publisher: Apud Aldum Aldo Manuzio
Published: 1499-03
Place of publication: Venice
Language: gre
Number of pages: 820
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Full title:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Ἐπιστολαὶ διαφόρων φιλοσόφων ῥητόρῶν σοφιστῶν; ἑξ πρὸς τοῖς
είκοσι. ὧν τὰ ὀνόματα ἐν τᾖ ἑξῆς εὑρήσεις σελίδι. Epistolae diversorum
philosophorum. Oratorum. Rhetorum sex & viginti. Quorum nominainse quenti
in venies Pagina.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 vols. in 4to. v. 1: pp. [532]; v. 2: pp. [276]. Signatures: v.
1: *⁶ [α]-[ ε]¹² [ϝ]¹² [ζ]-[ η]⁸ [θ]¹ [ι]-[τ]⁸ 2[τ]⁶ [υ]-[ ω]⁸ [Α]-[Γ]⁸ [Δ]⁴
([ζ]8 blank); v. 2: [α]-[ ε]⁸ [ζ]-[ η]⁶ [θ]-[ρ]⁸ [σ]⁶ ([σ]6 blank). Text in
Greek; some preliminaries in Latin. First 17 words of the title transliterated
from the Greek. Imprint information from colophon of part 1 (on recto of leaf
[Δ]4); colophon to part 2 on verso of leaf [σ]5, reads: Venetiis apud Aldum.
eade[m] qua caetera co[n]ditione. ISTC dates the two parts as: part 1: [29]
Mar. 1499; pt. 2: [not before 17 Apr. 1499]. Part 2 has title: Epistolai
Basileiou tou megalou. Libaniou tou sophistou. Chiōnos tou platōnikou.
Aischinou kai Isokratous tōn rhētorōn. Phalaridos tou tyrannou Broutou
rhōmaiou. Apollōniou tou tyaneōs. Ioulianou tou parabatou. Epistolae Basilii
Magni Libanii Rhetoris. </span><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="fr">Chionis Platonici,
Aeschinis & Isocratis oratorum Phalaridis Tyranni. Bruti Romani. Apollonii
Tyanensis. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Iuliani
Apostatae. Eighteenth century calf gilt. Bünau arms on covers.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Greek scholar and philosopher Markos Musuros (ca. 1470-1517)
compiled, for the first time, these mostly spurious Greek letters by 35
authors, ranging from Plato, Isocrates, and Aeschines from antiquity to
4th-century authors such as Gregory of Nazianzus, Diogenes and later to
Procopius of Gaza. Also included are Synesius, Phalaris (see also Bib# 6722376/Fr# 34.1)</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">, Julian the Apostate
and St. Basil; other letters are forged or of doubtful authorship, such as
those by Hippocrates and Euripides. This work is also the first printing of the
supposed correspondence of Alexander the Great with his teacher Aristotle. It
was published by Aldo Manuzio (1449 or 1450-1515). The Aldine Epistolae Graecae
“was not replaced by an equally useful collection until 1873, the date of R.
Hercher's Epistolographi graeci” (N.G. Wilson, From Byzantium to Italy, London,
2017, p.150). Includes “Epistolai Basileiou tou megalou. Libaniou tou
sophistou” and with “Epistolae Basilii Magni Libanii Rhetoris.”</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the Benedictine abbey at Ottobeuran; subsequently in the
great private collection of Heinrich, Graf von Bünau (1697-1762), largely
destroyed in the Allied bombing of Dresden, and with later bookplates of
Horatio Williams, fourth Earl of Orford (d. 1894), T. J. Coolidge, jr, and
Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">See Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Leipzig [etc.], 9367; F. R.
Goff, Incunabula in American Libraries: A Third Census. Millwood (N.Y.), 1973,
E-64.</span></p><p></p>

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