Dictionarium Graecum copiosissimum secu[n]dum ordinem alphabeti cum interpretatione Latina ; Cyrilli opusculum de dictionibus quae uariato accentu mutant significatum secundum ordinem alphabeti cum interpretatione Latina ; Ammonius de differentia dictionum per literarum ordinem ; Vetus instructio & denominatio[n]es praefecto[rum] militu[m] ; Significata tou hē ; Significata tou hōs ; Index oppido quamcopiosus, docens Latinas dictiones ferè omneis Graece dicere & multas etia[m] multis modis.

Accession number: 
PML 1334
Author: 
Crastonus, Johannes, active 15th century.
Published: 
Venetiis : in aedibus Aldi Manutii, Romani, Decembri mense M.IIID [1497].
Description: 
[244] leaves ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes: 

Title from contents list (leaf a1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf t7v): Colophon: Venetiis in aedibus Aldi Manutii, Romani Decembri mense MIIID. Et in hoc quod in caeteris nostris ab Ill. S.V. concessum nobis.
Printed in Aldus's types 2:114R, 7:114Gr, and 8:87R.
Signatures: a-k⁸ l¹⁰ A-K⁸ L-O¹⁰·⁸ p-r⁸ s⁶ t⁸: 244 leaves, leaf t8 blank.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio
Cyrilli opusculum de dictionibus quae uariato accentu mutant significatum secundum ordinem alphabeti has been variously ascribed to Saint Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, to Cyrillus Glossator, and to John Philoponus. Ammonius de differentia dictionum per literarum ordinem has been ascribed to the 2nd cent. B.C. grammarian Ammonius.
Letter of Aldus Manutius, addressed to "studiosis omnibus," and two elegiac distichs in Greek by Scipio Carteromachus (Scipio Forteguerri) and by Marcus Masurus on t.p. verso Letter from Manutius "ad lectorem" on fol. O4v.
Two columns, index in 3 columns. 42 lines. Woodcut initial on fol. O1r; spaces with guideletters elsewhere. Catchwords at ends of quires. Register (leaf t7v).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.2 x 21 cm. (trimmed)

Binding: 
19th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (32.5 x 22 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853); his sale, Evans (London), 23 June 1834, lot 623 to Payne for £4.1.0 for Acheson; Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased from Payne & Foss for £6.6.0, armorial booklabel (front pastedown) and shelf mark: B5 (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.
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