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61 - VARRON. De lingua latina. S.l.n.d. [Venice, Johann of Cologn…
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VARRON. De lingua latina. S.l.n.d. [Venice, Johann of Cologne and Johann Manthen, c. 1474-1475]. In-4 of [86] ff. (sign. a10 a-b10 d10 e8 f6 g-k8); stiff vellum with covers (modern binding). Third edition of Varron's great treatise on linguistics, published by Giulio Pomponio Leto (1428-1497). It is a reprint of the first Roman edition, published around 1471. It contains a dedication from the publisher to the Italian humanist and gastronome Bartolomeo Sacchi, known as Platina. Varron (116-27 BC), author of a famous treatise on agronomy (De re rustica), was "the most learned of the Romans" according to Plutarch and Quintilian. His treatise De lingua latina, which long remained a reference for Latin grammarians, comprised twenty-five books, of which only books V to X have survived. It is followed in this edition by the Analogia by the same author. A precious and rare Venetian incunabulum printed in Roman type on the presses of Johann of Cologne and Johann Manthen, active in Venice since 1471 and partners since 1474. The two German typesetters had first been associated with the brothers Johann and Wendelin from Speyer, who had introduced printing to Venice in 1468. The CIBN dates the edition to around December 1474 and Goff to around 1475. A copy with good margins, not rubricated, and complete with the blank leaves f6 and k8. Booklet c does not exist in the edition, but the binder, believing it to be missing, has bound in 8 blank pages between booklets b and d. A few wormholes in the last leaves. ISTC iv00096000 - CIBN V-64 - BMC V 230 - Hain 15858 (I) - Copinger 5953 - Goff V-96 - GW M49462.
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