Electra / Eclogae

Electra. Epigrammata Graeca ex florilegio selecta. Virgilii Eclogae a Daniele Alsvorto Graecis versibus redditae. [Printed in Greek]. — Romae, Apud Aloysium Zannettum. M.D.XCIII. Superiorem permissu [Rome, Zannetti, 1593].

8vo (162 x 101 mm). A-G⁸H²: 115 pp. A few spots, quire F a bit browned. Contemporary vellum. 

The translation of Vergil’s ten Eclogae into Greek is by Daniel Halsworth or Holdsworth, a classical scholar. Born in Yorkshire about 1558, died in Rome in 1595; produced translations from Greek into Latin and vice versa, many of it unpublished.

Not in Hoffmann. USTC 857029 (5 copies) and Edit16 47849 (6 copies). Rare.