Opera in Greek/Commentary on Timaeus — Basel 1534

Ἅπαντα Πλάτωνος μεθ‘ Ὑπομνημάτων Πρόκλου εἰς τὸν Τίμαιον, καὶ τὰ Πολιτικὰ, θησαυροῦ τῆς παλαιᾶς Φιλοσοφίας μεγίστου. Platonis opera omnia cum commentarii Procli in Timaeum & Politica […]. – Basilea apud Ioan. Valderum. Mense Martio. Anno M. D. XXXIIII.

Basel, Johannes Walder, March 1534

Editio princeps of Proclus‘ commentaries, second edition of Plato in Greek.

Folio (322 x 210 mm). 

Plato: 1⁸ 2-6⁶ α-ω, Α-Ω ΑαΑ-ΗηΗ⁶ ΘθΘ, ΙιΙ⁸: (38) leaves, 690 pp., 1 blank leaf.

Proklos: Α-Ω ΑΑ-ΛΛ⁶ ΜΜ⁸: (1) leaf, 433 pp.

Title-page doubled and dusty, first 8 and last 3 leaves with watermargin at upper outer corner, a number of leaves with very faint toning of the type area and minor foxing. 18th century calf, spine gilt; rubbing and scratches to the binding. 

Provenance: Ex-libris „Ex Bibliotheca Minoris Seminarii Verrierensis“. Bibliographical notes on fly-leaf, 18th c.

The colophon says: Ἐντυπωθὴ ἐν Βασιλείᾳ ἀναλώμασι καὶ ἐπιμελείᾳ Ἰωάννου Βαλδιέρου, ἔτει τῷ ἀπὸ τῆς ἐνσάρκου οἰκονομίας τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, χιλιοστῷ πεντακοσιοστῷ τριακοστῷ τετάρτῳ, θαργηλιῶνος τρισκαιδεκάτῃ. 

Θαργηλιών is the penultimate month of the attic year. Some say it starts on 16 May, others on 18 May, others at the end of April, etc. I think that Johannes Walder used it simply for May 13.

VD16 P 3275; Adams P-1437 und P-2139; Hoffmann III, 118.