Chrysoloras, Erotemata, Venice, Aldus, 1517, later mottled calf, Giustiniani copy

Chrysoloras, Manuel. Erotemata Chrysolorae. De anomalis uerbis. De formatione temporum ex libro Chalcondylae. Quartus Gazae De constructione. De encleticis. Sententiae monostichi ex variis poetis. Cato. Erotemata Guarini. (Venice: in the house of of Aldo Manuzio and Andrea Torresano, November 1517)

A reprint of the 1512 Aldine edition, but with Guarini's epitome of Chrysoloras included for the first time.

8vo (155 x 90 mm). Greek type, 27 lines plus pagination. collation: a-s⁸ t⁴ v-z⁸ A-C⁸ D⁴: 208 leaves (u8 blank). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. (Without blank leaf u8, final leaf slightly damaged and repaired).

binding: Eighteenth-century marbled calf gilt (160 x 103 mm), flat spine gilt with navy morocco lettering-piece, gilt edges. (Extremities slightly rubbed, lacking one lettering-piece.)

provenance: "N 59 Bessewicz"(?), ink note on flyleaf — Bibliotheca Giustiniani, armorial bookplate. acquisition: Purchased from Erasmushaus, Basel, 1972. references: UCLA 157; Edit16 12131; Renouard 80/6; Botley, Learning Greek in Western Europe 1396-1529, Appendix 1:85