Live auction - Lot 659
[Aldine Press - Biblical commentary]
3 Latin translations of Bible commentaries, two in first edition.
Rome, P. Manutius, 1562-1563
Hammer price: €
400
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
Bound in one vol., folio (foxing, sometimes extensive).
Contemp. limp vellum, ink-titled flat spine (soiling on front cover, pastedowns and endpapers renewed).
1. Beati Theodoriti [sic], episcopi Cyrensis, in canticum canticorum explanatio, interiectis Maximi, Nili, Pselliq. notationibus, Francisco Zino interprete [...]. 1563. [4]-61-[7] ff. (marg. burning hole in f. 38, occ. sl. marg. soiling or staining). First edition by Francesco Zini with notes of Sts Maximus and Nilus, and Michel Psellus. - 2-3. Translated by Giovanni Battista Gabia: [...] In Ezechielem prophetam commentarius [...]. Ibid. [4]-111-[7] ff. (upper margin of ff. 85-90 browned). First edition; [...] In visiones Danielis propheate commentarius, Ioanne Baptista Gabio Veronensi intreprete [...]. Ibid., 1562. [8]-144-[11] pp. (occ. pp. browned, sl. marg. damp stain p. 129).
Each title with the Aldine anchor; some dotted initials (incl. large ones).
Ref. EDIT16 27798, 27802 & 27790. - Renouard 188:1, 184:1 (dated 1562) & 188:2. - STC Italy 101 (n. 2). - Not in Adams, STC Italy.
Prov. Ms. entry from a Verona owner. - Benoît-Agathon Haffreingue (1785-1871), French priest based in Boulogne-sur-Mer, reconstructor of the Basilica of Notre-Dame from 1827 to 1857. - Libr. stamps.