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Anthologia Graeca — Basel 1549

Epigrammatum graecorum libri VII. Annotationibus Ioannis Brodaei Turonensis illustrati … — Basel, Hier. Froben u. Nic. Episcopius, 1549.

 

Folio (322 x 212 mm). (4) leaves, 627 pp., (10) leaves. Printed in Greek. Faint toning. Contemporary limp vellum lacking ties, later paper label on spine. – Hoffmann I, 168; VD16 E 1639; Hieronymus, Griech. Geist aus Basler Pressen, no. 302.

 

¶ First Brodaeus edition of the Greek Anthology. „Brodaeus Turonensis Canonicus, vir maximus ac doctissimus fuit, cuius commentarios in Epigrammata Graeca pluris facio, quam quorundam scripta plurima.“ (Scaliger, quoted from Hoffmann I, 169)