Accession number
PML 199027
Creator
Clénard, Nicolas, 1493 or 1494-1542, author.
Published
Venetiis : In aedib. Manutianis, M DLXX [1570]
Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper D-1 Fund, 2023.
Notes
Date (in which an infinity symbol used for roman numeral "M") follows place of publication on title page.
Publisher/printer from Renouard.
Accompanied by the commentary of the French scholar Pierre Antesignan.
Signatures: *⁸ 2*⁴ A-Z⁸ Aa-Nn⁸.
Page [23] of first sequence, and pages [1]-[6], [32], and [34]-[38] of third sequence are blank.
Woodcuts: Aldine dolphin-and-anchor device on title page, featuring a right-facing dolphin curled around an anchor, flanked by printer's name "Aldus" and "Iunior" (mistakenly identified as A28 in the Ahmanson-Murphy catalog); portrait of Aldus Manutius on verso of title-page, with title "Effigies Aldi Senioris."
Text printed in italic and Greek types; spaces left for capitals, with guide letters.
Includes index.
Not in USTC.
Publisher/printer from Renouard.
Accompanied by the commentary of the French scholar Pierre Antesignan.
Signatures: *⁸ 2*⁴ A-Z⁸ Aa-Nn⁸.
Page [23] of first sequence, and pages [1]-[6], [32], and [34]-[38] of third sequence are blank.
Woodcuts: Aldine dolphin-and-anchor device on title page, featuring a right-facing dolphin curled around an anchor, flanked by printer's name "Aldus" and "Iunior" (mistakenly identified as A28 in the Ahmanson-Murphy catalog); portrait of Aldus Manutius on verso of title-page, with title "Effigies Aldi Senioris."
Text printed in italic and Greek types; spaces left for capitals, with guide letters.
Includes index.
Not in USTC.
Description
[24], 538, [38] pages : 1 portrait (woodcut) ; 16 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Vincenzo Moranae, signature: Di Don. Vincenzo Moranae, SJ (title page); J. Compain, embossed name stamp (title page); Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Libri Orsi on the Lathrop C. Harper D-1 Fund, 2023.
Summary
First Aldine edition of the popular Greek grammar of the Flemish humanist Nicolaus Clenardus (Cleynaerts), accompanied by the commentary of the French scholar Pierre Antesignan.! Renouard calls attention to two important features of this volume: it contains the earliest appearance of the Aldine dolphin device using the words "Aldus Iunior"; heretofore, the same device bore the name "Aldus," written in two parts "AL" and "DUS," flanking the device. This edition also contains the first appearance of the small woodcut portrait of Aldus Manutius.
Binding
19th/20th-century quarter vellum with mottled paper sides.
Classification
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