Title of Book: 1513 Aldine Cornucopia Classic Latin Encyclopedia Dictionary P.-Incunabula Aldus
Price: $4,237
Seller: lux-et-umbra
Description: “Collectible printed in Venice by Aldus Manutius and Andreas Torresanus, 1513. (First colophon (on K8r) dated September 1513; second colophon (on Y7v) dated November 1513.) Latin text in fine Aldine italic with numerous brief passages in Greek. SCARCE SECOND ALDINE EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, of this towering monument of Renaissance classical philology and Latin lexicography! Perotti’s exhaustive commentary on the first book of Martial’s epigrams, consulted long after as a Latin dictionary. A veritable storehouse of linguistic material, Perotti’s Cornucopia was extensively mined (sometimes unscrupulously) by subsequent generations of writers and scholars, including Calepinus for his famous dictionary”.
Definitely a very nice Book that brought a lot of attention and a great price.
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