Euripidou tragōdiai heptakaideka : ōn eniai met'exēgēseōn, eisi de autai Hekabē, Orestēs, Phoinissai, Mēdeia, Hippolytos, Alkēstis, Andromachē, Iketides, Iphigeneia en Aulidi, Iphigeneia en Taurois, Rēsos, Trōades, Bakchai, Kuklōps, Hērakleidai, Eelenē, Iōn = Euripidis tragoediae septendecim : ex quib. quaedam habent commentaria. & sunt hae. Hecuba, Orestes, Phoenissae, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, Andromache, Supplices, Iphigenia ī Aulide, Iphigenia inTauris, Rhesus, Troades, Bacchae, Cyclops, Heraclidae, Helena, Ion.

Accession number: 
PML 199246
Author: 
Euripides.
Published: 
Venetiis : Apud Aldum, Februario, MDIII [1503]
Credit: 
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description: 
2 volumes in 1 ([536], [380] pages) ; 18 cm
Notes: 

Title romanized from Greek; text and signatures in Greek; contents listed on t.p. in Greek and Latin.
Imprint from colophon.
Vol. 2 has no. t.p.; the signatures are continuous, but each volume has its own register of quires, where it is called, respectively, "primum volumen", and "secundum uolumen."
First collected edition of Euripides. The "commentaries" mentioned on the t.p. (meaning probably the scholia by Arsenius) were not published in this edition, but were printed in Venice by L.A. Junta in 1534.
Title page lists seventeen tragedies, but a manuscript source for "Hercules Furens" was rediscovered after the book went to press, and this eighteenth play was appended at the end of the second volume.
Signatures of volume 1: [Alpha]-[Gamma]⁸ [Delta]⁴ [Epsilon]-[Eta]⁸ [Theta]⁶ [Iota]-[Lambda]⁸ [Mu]⁶ [Nu]-[Xi]⁸ [Omicron]¹⁰ [Pi]-[Rho]⁸ [Sigma]¹⁰ [Tau]-[Upsilon]⁸ [Phi]⁶ [Chi]-2[Beta]⁸ 2[Gamma]⁶ 2[Delta]-2[Zeta]⁸ 2[Eta]⁶ 2[Theta]-2[Iota]⁸ 2[Kappa]¹⁰ chi⁴; signatures of volume 2: 2[Lambda]⁸ 2[Mu]¹⁰ 2[Nu]-2[Rho]⁸ 2[Sigma]¹⁰ 2[Tau]⁸ 2[Upsilon]⁶ 2[Phi]-2[Chi]⁸ 2[Psi]⁴ 2[Omega]⁸ 3[Alpha]-3[Beta]⁸ 3[Gamma]⁶ 3[Delta]-3[Zeta]⁸ 3[Eta]⁶ 3[Theta]-3[Kappa]⁸ 3[Lambda]⁴.
Volume 1: 268 leaves (Delta4, Phi6, 2Eta6 blank); volume 2: 190 leaves (2Sigma10, 2Upsilon6 blank). Woodcut Aldine device on Chi4v and 3Lambda4v, section-titles, four-line initial spaces with guide letters.

Binding: 
German sixteenth-century blind-tooled pigskin over beveled wooden boards (181 x 125 mm) by Thomas Kruger of Wittenberg, border roll of floral design, L [fleuron] S [fleuron] N above central panel and 1568 below, stamp (94 x 53 mm) on upper cover of Fortuna with FORTVNA VITREA EST CUM MA | XIME SPLENDET FRANGITVR, in lower right corner initials T.K., lower cover stamp (92 x 54 mm) of arms of Holy Roman Empire flanked by columns of Hercules with DES*HEILEGE* ROMIS(CH)EN*KEIS | ERTVMS* WAPPEN*T*KRUGER, two brass clasps catching on upper cover.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Unidentified owner added "Hercules Furens" in ink in Greek and Latin to the contents on the title page; George Buchanan inscription on front pastedown.

Variant Title: 

Euripidis tragoediae septendecim

Provenance: 
Unidentified owner, supralibros, initials "L S N." and date 1568 on upper cover; George Buchanan (1506-1582), translator of Medea (Paris: Michel Vascosan, 1544) and Alcestis ([n.p.]: Henri Estienne, 1567); Charles W. Clark (1871-1933), The Library of Charles W. Clark (San Francisco 1914), I, p. 51; presumably The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia; acquistiion: John Fleming, New York, 1963; T. Kimball Brooker (b. 1939), Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library: The Aldine Collection D-M, October 18, 2024, Lot 708.
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