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Commentaries and scholia on the Greek orator Demosthenes & the dictionary of Harpocration: second edition of Aldus' editio princeps
ULPIANUS of Emesa (or: of Antioch) & Valerius HARPOKRATION[Greek text: Oulpianou rhetoros, prolegomena eis te tous olunthiakous, kai philipikous demosthenous logous - Exegesis anankaiotate, eis dekatreis tou demosthenous logous - Harpokrationos, lexikon tou deka rhetoron] Commentarioli in olynthiacas, philippicasque Demosthenis orationes. Enarrationes saneque necessariae in tredecim orationes Demosthenis. Arpocrationis dictionarium decem Rhetorum.     Venice, 'In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Asulani Soceri' (André d'Asola & sons), June 1527. Folio. Later overlapping limp vellum. With Aldus' famous printer's device (in border, 108 x 78 mm, with text 'Aldus') on title-page and on the verso of the last leaf (with text 'Aldus. M.D.'). 120 ll. Second edition of the editio princeps, edited by Aldus in 1503 (Renouard, p. 41, nr. 6), of the commentaries and scholia on Demosthenes, written by Ulpian of Emesa who taught rhetoric at Antioch in the reign of Constantine (324-37 AD) and wrote a number of declamations and rhetorical works. Above all, he is the reputed author of these scholia to the speeches of the greatest of all Ancient Greek orators, Demosthenes (384-322 BC). A year after the editio princeps of these scholia, Aldus edited and published the editio princeps of Demosthenes himself, one of the most important books Aldus has ever printed. Demosthenes' writings provide a very interesting insight into the life and culture of Athens at this period of time, in which he constantly attempted to rally the Athenian people against Philippus and Alexander the Great, the rulers of Macedonia, using all his gifts as an orator. Demosthenes's speeches are: Olynthiacs 1-3, Philippics 1-4, For the freedom of the Rhodians, For the Megapolitans, On the Chersonese, On the Crown, On the Naval boards, and On the Peace. After the title-page with a short preface in Latin by Franciscus Asulanus on its verso, follows the text of Ulpian on f. 1-88. On f. 89-119 follows the 'Lexicon of the ten orators' by Valerius Harpocration of Alexandria, also as the second edition of the editio princeps of his dictionary of 1503. The dates of this lexicographer are not certain; some plave him under Tiberius. The 'Lexicon' contains words, including proper names, and phrases, mainly from the orators in alphabetical order, generally assigned to their sources, with explanations of points of interest or difficulty. Besides stylistic details he has valuable notes on architectural, religious, legal, constitutional, social and other antiquities. The book is nicely printed in Aldus'Greek characters (Harpocration's dictionary in two columns), leaving spaces with guide letters for initials. Title-page and last pages slightly browned. Good copy.
Ahmanson-Murphy 213; Adams U-50 & H-69; Hoffmann I, 537; Renouard, p. 104, nr. 4; STC Italian, p. 704; UCLA 245.
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