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Wednesday 18 November 2020, 10:30 AM • Rome

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Budé, Guillaume

Commentarii linguae Graecae, 1530

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[Venezi, Lucantonio Giunta], 1530. In 2 °. Typographic mark on the title page and at the end, figured drop caps and woodcut friezes, space for drop caps with guide letter, Roman and Greek font, underlining in brown ink, at the edges of some papers slight halo, burnished title page, on A2 paper tear along the inner margin , restoration of the A1-2 and L7 papers, the white L8 paper is missing, back binding in half leather with corners, on the back worn gusset with author and titles engraved in gold. To the front counterplate ex libris.

Specialist Notes

Very important work for the studies of Renaissance Greek language and literature. Budé, a French Greek scholar who lived between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, composed this commentary at the request of Erasmus for the preparation of a Greek dictionary. The first edition of this work was published only the year before in Paris.