Accession number
PML 23641
Creator
Nicander, of Colophon.
Published
Coloniae : Opera Joan. Soteris, 1530
Credit line
Purchased in 1926.
Notes
Text and scholia in Greek.
Both Greek titles precede the Latin titles.
Title continues: hermēneia tou anōnymou syngrapheōs eis Thēriaka = interpretatio innominati autoris in Theriaca : scholia diaphorōn syngrapheōn eis Alexipharmaka = co[m]mentarii diuerso[rum] auto[rum] in Alexipharmaca.
Dedication by Joannes Soter.
Woodcut initials.
Collation: Aa2, Bb-Oo4, (Ff3 lettered Ff5). F. 1b: Letter of Gerard Bucoldianus to the printer, l. 34, Calend. Septemb. Anno. MDXXX.; f. 2a: Genos Nikandrou; f. 2b: Bios Nikandrou ek ton souida. L. 20: Ad lectorem; f. 1-62: Theriaca (text and commentary); f. 63-103: Alexipharmaca (text and commentary); f. 103b: printer's mark, with his motto in 4 languages; f. 103 is inserted from another copy.
In 1531 a Latin translation was issued.
Both Greek titles precede the Latin titles.
Title continues: hermēneia tou anōnymou syngrapheōs eis Thēriaka = interpretatio innominati autoris in Theriaca : scholia diaphorōn syngrapheōn eis Alexipharmaka = co[m]mentarii diuerso[rum] auto[rum] in Alexipharmaca.
Dedication by Joannes Soter.
Woodcut initials.
Collation: Aa2, Bb-Oo4, (Ff3 lettered Ff5). F. 1b: Letter of Gerard Bucoldianus to the printer, l. 34, Calend. Septemb. Anno. MDXXX.; f. 2a: Genos Nikandrou; f. 2b: Bios Nikandrou ek ton souida. L. 20: Ad lectorem; f. 1-62: Theriaca (text and commentary); f. 63-103: Alexipharmaca (text and commentary); f. 103b: printer's mark, with his motto in 4 languages; f. 103 is inserted from another copy.
In 1531 a Latin translation was issued.
Description
[4], 103, [1] pages ; 21 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
Pierre de Ronsard's copy with his signature (Ronsart) on title page, and interlinear Latin translation throughout, in his autograph. For an account of the annotations, see Isidore Silver, Ronsard and the Hellenic Renaissance in France, new edition (1981-1985 2: 77-81.
Provenance
From the libraries of Pierre de Ronsard, (before 1585), A.A. Renouard (cat. 1819, vol. 2, p. 188), and Pierre Louys (sale, Paris, 1926, this volume not included); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Seymour de Ricci, May, 1926.
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