880-01 Epistolai diaphorōn philosophōn = hex pros tois eikosi hōn ta onomata en tē hexēs heurēseis selidi = Epistolae diuersorum philosophorum, oratorum, rhetorum sex & uiginti : quorum nomina in sequenti inuenies pagina.

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PML 434
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Venetiis : Apud Aldum, [1499].
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[532], [276] pages ; 21 cm (4to)
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Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
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Title in Latin and Greek; text in Greek only.
Imprint from colophon to part 1: Venetiis apud Aldum mense Martio M. ID. cum priuilegio ut in caeteris.
Colophon to part I dated [29] March 1499; part II dated [not before 17 Apr. 1499] (colophon for part II: Venetiis apud Aldum mense Martio M.ID. cum priuilegio ut in caeteris)
Printed in Manuzio's types 2:114R and 7:114Gr.
Edited by Marcus Musurus.
Also known by title: Epistolae Graecorum collectio.
Signatures: pt. 1: *⁶ [alpha]-[epsilon]¹² [digamma]¹² [zeta]-[eta]⁸ [theta]¹⁰ [iota]-[tau]⁸ 2[tau]⁶ [upsilon]-[omega]⁸ [Alpha]-[Gamma]⁸ [Delta]⁴ ([zeta]8 blank); pt. 2: [alpha]-[episilon]⁸ [zeta]-[eta]⁶ [theta]-[rho]⁸ [sigma]⁶ ([sigma]6 blank).
Paper format: Super-Chancery quarto.
26 lines; area of text: 148 x 100 mm. With initial spaces, guide-letters, signatures and catchwords; without foliation. Registers on leaves [Delta]3-4 (pt. 1) and [sigma]5 (pt. 2).
"Epistolares stili & nomina eoru[m] qui co[m]posueru[n]t quas hoc uolumen continet epistolas: Synesius, Demosthenes, Plato, Aristoteles, Philippus, Alexander, Hippocrates, Democritus, Heraclitus, Diogenes, Crates, Anacharsis, Euripides, Theano, Melissa, Mya, Alciphron, Philostratus, Theophylactus, Aelianus, Aeneas, Procopius, Dionysius, Lysis, Amasis, Musonius"--Leaf *2r. Also cf. GW. Many of the letters ascribed to pre-classical or classical authors are not genuine
Includes in Part I: Greek exercise letters and letters, genuine and supposititious, of Synesius, Demosthenes, Plato, Aristoteles, Philippus Rex Macedonum, Alexander Magnus, Hippocrates, Heraclitus, Diogenes, Crates, Anacharsis, Euripides, Pythagoraei, Alciphron, Philostratus, Theophylactus Simocatta, Aelianus, Aeneas Gazaeus, Procopius Gazaeus, Dionysius Antiochenus, Lysis Pythagoraeus, Amasis, Musonius. Part II: Basilius Magnus, Libanius, Chion, Aeschines, Isocrates, Phalaris, Pythagoras, Brutus, Apollonius Tyaneus, Julianus imperator, and Lex de archiatris
Part II title: Epistolai basileiou tou megalou Libaniou tou sophistou. Chionos tou Platonikou. Aischinou kai Isokratous tōn Rhētorōn. Phalaridos tou Turannou Broutou Rhomaiou. Apolloniou tou Tyaneos. Ioulianou tou Parabatou. (col. 2) Epistolae basilii magni Libanii rhetoris. Chionis Platonici, Aeschinis & Isocratis oratorum Phalaridis Tyranni. Bruti Romani. Apollonii Tyanensis. Iuliani Apostatae.

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16th-century Italian blind-tooled morocco over Greek-style wooden boards (22 x 16 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands. 2 clasps, 1 missing.
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Epistolae diuersorum philosophorum, oratorum, rhetorum sex & uiginti

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

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[Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853) -- ownership identified in Toovey catalogue (Renouard's two copies were bound in 2 vols. each in russia and blue morocco, sold Bibliotheca Aldina: Evans, 26 June 1828, lots 444-45)]; Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823), armorial booklabel (front pastedown), his sale: Evans, 11 May 1824, lot 1160, to Thorpe for £3.3.0; Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), shelfmark: D5 (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1878 by: James Toovey (1814-1893), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1899 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
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