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Tade enesti en tēde tē bibl[i]ō : Theokritou Eidyllia toutesti mikra poiēmata triakonta ; tou autou genos kai peri heureseōs tōn uoukolikōn [i.e. boukolikōn] ; Katōnos rhōmaiou Gnōmai parainetekai distichoi ; Gnōmai hepta sophōn ; Peri phtonou ; Theognidos Megareōs Sikeliōtou Gnōmai elegiakai ; Gnōmai monostichoi kata kephalaia syntetagmenai ek diaphorōn poiētōn ; Chrysa epē tou Pythagorou ; Phōkylidou poiēma nouthetikon ; Stichoi Sibyllas tēs Erythraias peri tou Kyriou hēmōn ; Diaphora phōnēs ; Hesiodou Theogonia ; tou autou Aspis Hērakleous ; tou autou Erga kai hemerai = Haec insunt in hoc libro: Theocriti Eclogae triginta ; Genus Theocriti & de inuentione bucolicorum ; Catonis Romani sententiae paraeneticae distichi ; Sententiae septem sapientum ; De Inuidia ; Theognidis Megarensis Siculi Sententiae elegiacae ; Sententiae monostichi per capita ex uariis poetis ; Aurea Carmina Pythagorae ; Phocylidae Poema admonitorium ; Carmina Sibyllae Erythraeae de Christo Iesu Domino N[ost]ro ; Differe[n]tia uocis ; Hesiodi Theogonia ; eiusdem scutum Herculis ; eiusdem Georgicon libri duo.

Accession number
PML 1635
Creator
Theocritus.
Object title

Tade enesti en tēde tē bibl[i]ō : Theokritou Eidyllia toutesti mikra poiēmata triakonta ; tou autou genos kai peri heureseōs tōn uoukolikōn [i.e. boukolikōn] ; Katōnos rhōmaiou Gnōmai parainetekai distichoi ; Gnōmai hepta sophōn ; Peri phtonou ; Theognidos Megareōs Sikeliōtou Gnōmai elegiakai ; Gnōmai monostichoi kata kephalaia syntetagmenai ek diaphorōn poiētōn ; Chrysa epē tou Pythagorou ; Phōkylidou poiēma nouthetikon ; Stichoi Sibyllas tēs Erythraias peri tou Kyriou hēmōn ; Diaphora phōnēs ; Hesiodou Theogonia ; tou autou Aspis Hērakleous ; tou autou Erga kai hemerai = Haec insunt in hoc libro: Theocriti Eclogae triginta ; Genus Theocriti & de inuentione bucolicorum ; Catonis Romani sententiae paraeneticae distichi ; Sententiae septem sapientum ; De Inuidia ; Theognidis Megarensis Siculi Sententiae elegiacae ; Sententiae monostichi per capita ex uariis poetis ; Aurea Carmina Pythagorae ; Phocylidae Poema admonitorium ; Carmina Sibyllae Erythraeae de Christo Iesu Domino N[ost]ro ; Differe[n]tia uocis ; Hesiodi Theogonia ; eiusdem scutum Herculis ; eiusdem Georgicon libri duo.

Published

Venetiis : ac studio Aldi Manucii Romani, MCCCCXCV, mense februario [February 1495, i.e. February 1496]

Description

[140] leaves ; 30 cm. (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
The Idylls of Theocritus with numerous other works in Greek.
Title from contents, leaf [Alpha]A1 recto; Greek title appears in Greek characters.
Imprint from colophon on leaf [epsilon]e8 recto.
Imprint uses Venetian dating (calendar year begins on March 25).
Printed in Aldus's types 1:146Gk, 2:114R, and 6:83R.
Signatures: [Alpha]A-[Delta]D⁸ [Epsilon]E-[Theta]G⁶ 4[Alpha]-4[Delta]⁸ 4[Epsilon]⁶ 4[Zeta]¹⁰ [alpha]a-[beta]b⁸ [gamma]c¹⁰ [delta]d-[epsilon]e⁸: 140 leaves.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio
Leaves [Zeta]F1.6, 2.5 and quire [Theta]G exist in two settings. In the first setting, the first hexameter of both idylls on [Zeta]F1r is printed in two lines, and [Theta]G6v is blank. In the second setting, the first hexameter of both idylls on [Zeta]F1r is printed in a single line, [Theta]G6v contains the idyll on the dead Adonis, and the idyll on [Theta]G6r is set within a goblet-shaped woodcut frame. Cf. BM 15th cent.
Head-pieces; woodcut initials; catchwords; initials of interlocutors.
Register (leaf [epsilon]e7 verso).
Title on verso of final leaf: In hoc uolumine continentur haec Hesiodi Ascraei poetae Theogonia. hoc e[x] de generatione deoru[m] opusculum. Eiusde[m] Aspis. hoc est de scuto Herculis opusculum. Eiusde[m] Georgicorum libri duo dicti Erga & Himerae. id est opera & dies.
The Disticha of Pseudo-Cato are given in the Greek translation of Maximus Planudes.
PML copy is first setting.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.6 x 21 cm.
PML copy with leaves [Delta]D4-5 bound after [Epsilon]E3.
Binding
19th-century French gilt-tooled blue, straight-grained morocco over paper boards (32.5 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Thouvenin. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbnads; gilt edges.
Variant title
Theokritou Eidyllia toutesti mikra poiēmata triakonta
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853); his sale, Evans (London), 23 June 1834, lot 1465 to Prince Cimitile for £5.0.0; Fabio Albertini, principe di Cimitile (1775-1848); Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased in 1837, armorial booklabel (front pastedown), bibliographical note (front fly leaf recto), and shelf mark: A5 (front fly leaf verso); 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
Century
Department