Aristophanous Kōmōdiai ennea = Aristophanis Comoediae novem.

Accession number: 
PML 1123
Author: 
Aristophanes.
Published: 
Venetiis : apud Aldum, M.IID. Idibus Quintilis [15 July 1498].
Description: 
[348] leaves ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [*]/1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf [Tau]5v): Venetiis apud Aldum. M. IID. Idibus Quintilis. In hoc idem quod in aliis nostris impetrauimus.
Printed in Aldus's types 1:146Gr, 2:114R, and 7:114Gr.
Signatures: [*⁸] [alpha-gamma]⁸ [delta]¹⁰ [epsilon-xi]⁸ [omicron]¹⁰ [pi-upsilon]⁸ [phi]⁶ [chi-omega]⁸ [Alpha]⁸ [Beta-Epsilon]⁸ [Zeta]⁶ [Eta-Lambda]⁸ [Mu]⁴ [Nu-Omicron]⁸ [Pi]¹⁰ [Rho-Sigma]⁸ [Tau]⁶: 348 leaves, leaf [Tau]6 blank. Quire [*] numbered on leaves 2-4.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio
Text and scholia in Greek.
Edited by Marcus Musurus.
An epigram (three elegiac distichs) by Antipater Thessalonicensis (leaf [*]1r).
Letter, dated Venice, 13 July 1498. from Manutius to Daniel Clarius Parmensis (leaves [*]/1v-2r).
Letter from Markos Mousouros to the reader (leaves [*]/2r-v).
Epigram (four elegiac distichs) from Scipione Forteguerri (Carteromacho) to Aldus Manutius (leaf [*]/2v).
Prefatory material also includes commentaries by Hephaestion, Demetrius Triclinius, Platonius, Thomas Magister, and Aristophanes Grammaticus in addition to a life of Aristophanes. Thomas Magister or Aristophanes Grammaticus also authors of the argumenta to some of the individual comedies.
41 lines of scholia surrounding text, headlines. Woodcut capitals, borders, capital spaces with guide letters in preliminary gathering, catchwords, signature register.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.1 x 21.4 cm.

Binding: 
16th-century French gilt-tooled black morocco over paper boards (33 x 22 cm.), sewn on 6 supports by Claude de Picques. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; gilt and gauffered edges.
Variant Title: 

Kōmōdiai ennea

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication (where needed) unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Charles Monatgu, Earl of Halifax (1661-1715), armorial bookplate, 1702 (leaf [*]/1r); Richard Heber (1773-1833), Bibliotheca Heberiana stamp (front fly leaf recto); Bibliotheca Heberiana sale, Part II, Sotheby's, 1834, lot 464 to Payne and Foss for Acheson; Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased from Payne and Foss for £13.9.6, 1834, armorial booklabel, bibliographic note, and shelf mark: B5 (front pastedown); James Toovey (1814-1893), purchased Gosford's library en bloc in 1878, Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Department: 
Printed Books