Pindar, Odes, Venice, Aldus, 1513, later calf gilt

Property of Ampleforth Abbey Trust

Pindar

[Odes] Ολυμπια, Πυθια, Νεμεα, Ισθμια. Callimachus, Υμνοι [and other works]. (Venice): Aldus (in the house of Aldus and Andrea Torresani, January 1513)

8vo (148 x 95mm.), text in Greek, woodcut Aldine device on title-page, without final blank leaf, annotations in Greek, early nineteenth-century calf, gilt edges, first quire slightly browned, flyleaves detached, spine defective, upper cover detached

EDITIO PRINCEPS, dedicated to Aldus' friend Andrea Navagero, and a respected edition of a difficult text.

LITERATURE:

Aldo Manuzio tipografo 110; Edit16 37448; Renouard 64/9; Texas 105; UCLA 108

PROVENANCE:

monogram ΦΚ dated February 1514, inscription on flyleaf with Greek verses written in three different hands; Ex libris Caroli Scarellae, inscription on verso of flyleaf; Gregorius de Paduanis and Bartholomeus de Paduanis, signatures at foot of title-page