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Breuissima introductio ad litteras græcas.

Accession number
PML 21863.1
Creator
Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515.
Object title

Breuissima introductio ad litteras græcas.

Published

[Venice] : [Aldus Manutius, Romanus], [1497].

Description

[16] leaves : 1 woodcut ; 11 cm (16mo)

Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Manuzio's types 2:114R and 7:114Gk.
Signatures: a-b⁸: 16 leaves, leaf b8 blank.
Paper format: Median half-sheet 16mo.
Apparently issued to accompany Aldus' Greek Horae, Goff H-391.
Aside from half-title, Latin text printed in red and Greek in black.
Woodcut of Annunciation, leaf a1v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 11.7 x 8.3 cm.
Binding
19th-century gilt-tooled reddish-brown calf over paper boards (12.5 x 9 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; yellow edges.
Variant title
Brevissima introductio ad litteras graecas
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubication not required. Annotations: 19th-century manuscript notations of Greek grammar and alphabet (leaf [xi]8v of Horae and rear endleaves 1-4).
Provenance
Filippo F[????]ietti, signature, 19th century (rear endleaf 6 verso); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Jan. 1923.
Classification
Century
Department