Sententiae … — Strasbourg 1515

Senarii Graecanici Quingenti & eo amplius versi, Singuli moralem quandam sententiam, aut typum proverbialem prae se ferentes, Othmaro Nachtgall Argentino, metaphraste. — Ioannes Knoblouch notis aereis excepit Argentoraci.

[Strasbourg, Johannes Knobloch, 1515].

First edition of any Stobaeus fragments.

4to (208 x 147 mm).

a,b⁶ c,d⁴ e⁶: 49, (2) pp.

Woodcut title-border. Titel printed in red & black. Rubricated in red and yellow.

Quarter calf, gilt, ca. 1900. Outer edge untrimmed. Printed in Greek & Latin on opposite pages. Ed. by Ottmar Nachtgall (1480-1537). A beautiful piece of early Greek printing in Germany.

VD16 J 767; Hoffmann III², 451 („Die Sententiae, welche dies Buch enthält, sind aus der Sammlung des Johannes Stobaeus entnommen.“)