Lot n° 315

MOSCHOPOULOS, Emanuel De Ratione examinandae orationis libellus. [Graece.] Paris, Robert Estienne, …

Estimation : 600 - 800 EUR
Adjudication : 632 €
Description
MOSCHOPOULOS, Emanuel De Ratione examinandae orationis libellus. [Graece.] Paris, Robert Estienne, 31 décembre 1545. In-4
(228 x 150 mm) de 216 pp., 26 ff.n.ch. Veau moucheté, dos à nerfs orné, roulette sur les coupes (reliure anglaise du XVIIIème siècle).
Renouard, Estienne, 64:11; Schreiber, 86; Adams, M-1838.
Edition princeps de cette importante grammaire byzantine, que
Renouard identifie comme «savant Opuscule».
“Important Byzantine grammatical text, the second in Robert
Estienne's program of printing important unpublished Greek texts from manuscripts in the Royal Library” (Schreiber).
“At the very beginning of his [Henri Estienne's] adult life he had before his eyes the example of the remarkable output of editiones principes that marked Robert's last years in Paris: the ecclesiastical history of Eusebius in June 1544, followed by two more works of his shortly afterwards; the De Ratione of the Byzantine grammarian
Moschopoulos in December 1545; the Antiquitates romanae and many of the opuscula of Dionysios of Halicarnassus in early 1547...” (Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe). Bel exemplaire.
Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield (ex-libris, South Library).
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