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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 34600
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

[142] leaves ; 33 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1938.
Notes
Head-pieces; woodcut initials; catchwords; initials of interlocutors.
Imprint from colophon on leaf [epsilon]e8 recto.
Imprint uses Venetian dating (calendar year begins on March 25).
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.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio
PML copy is second setting.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.5 x 21 cm
Printed in Aldus's types 1:146Gk, 2:114R, and 6:83R.
Register (leaf [epsilon]e7 verso).
Signatures: [Alpha]A-[Delta]D⁸ [Epsilon]E-[Theta]G⁶ ([Theta]G6 + 2) 4[Alpha]-4[Delta]⁸ 4[Epsilon]⁶ 4[Zeta]¹⁰ [alpha]a-[beta]b⁸ [gamma]c¹⁰ [delta]d-[epsilon]e⁸: 142 leaves. Second setting has two leaves from first setting added at end of quire [Theat]G to make up for missing text.
The Disticha of Pseudo-Cato are given in the Greek translation of Maximus Planudes.
The Idylls of Theocritus with numerous other works in Greek.
Title from contents, leaf [Alpha]A1 recto; Greek title appears in Greek characters.
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.
Binding
Uncovered original beach boards (33 x 21 cm), sewn on 3 supports; 18th-century German white pigskin rebacking. Plain paper fly leaves; plain endbands. Manuscript waste visible at interior hinges. 4 clasps, 2 missing.
Variant title
Title in ISTC: Idyllia
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Printed initial and head-piece with background painted (leaf 4[Alpha]1r). Annotations: Contemporary Greek manuscript notations throughout, extensive at times. Additional leaf added after [Alpha]A1 with manuscript.
Provenance
Unidentified shelf mark: [delta]6 (front fly leaf) and 752 (spine label); unidentified Swiss sale catalogue lot description (in dept. file); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from L.C. Harper, Jan. 1938.
Classification
Century
Department