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CATULLUS - TIBULLUS - PROPERTIUS

Catulli, Tibulli, Propertii nova editio, Iosephus Scaliger [...] recensuit. Eiusdem in eosdem Castigationum liber. Ad Cl. Puteanum [...]
Paris
Mamert Patisson at the Estienne Press
1577
€260 - €400

8vo: 2 parts, [16]-174 [= 274]-[2 bl.], 252-[1, 1 bl., 11, 1 bl.] pp. (missing blank r6, including blank E7, S2; usual toning or spotting). 18th-c. mottled leather, richly gilt spine with 6 raised bands and morocco label, red edges, green silk marker (head def., flyleaves gone). Very good copy

First Scaliger edition of the three great Roman elegiac poets (Schreiber). Also the ""first and most successful of Scaliger's early text-critical editions, partly occasioned by the happy find of a Tibullian ms. owned by Cujacius"" (Smitskamp).
Ref. Renouard 179:1. - Schreiber 248. - Smitskamp (Scaliger) 37. - Adams C-1154. Prov. A number of contemp. annotations in a tiny humanist hand. Old ownership entry on title (partly deleted)

Humanism