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CLEONIDES, VITRUVIUS, POLITIANUS, FRONTINUS

Hoc in volumine haec opera continentur ... Harmonicum introductorium [translated by Georgius Valla]; VITRUVIUS, de Architectura; Angelus POLITIANUS, Panepistemon; Lamia ; FRONTINUS. De Aquaeductibus.
Venice
Simone Bevilacqua
1497
€24.000 - €30.000

In-folio (30 x 20,5 cm), [94] ff, Latin text in Roman type, 43 lines and head-line, beautiful woodcut initials. Woodcut diagrams. Some early marginal annotations. Lvs. 4-5 loose, some small wormholes in the first lvs, pale marginal damp staining on some lvs. Otherwise a fine copy. Bound with: DIO CASSIUS a.o. Imperatorum Romanorum Vite. Nervae Vita, Traiani Vita, Adriani Vita, Conflagratio ... [Venezia, Aldo I Manuzio & Andrea I Torresano, 1519]. [12] ff. Fragment only. 20th century calf binding, author's names gilt on front cover, titles in ink on fore-edge

Third edition of VITRUVIUS, and first edition of CLEONIDES' treatise on music theory, in the translation from the Greek by Giorgio Valla; Vitruvius discusses the science of harmonics in book V. The text is based on the second Vitruvius edition of 1495-1496, and also contains the same accompanying works by FRONTINUS on aqueducts and POLIZIANO's two orations on Aristotle, the first of which contained an overview of arts and sciences. Ref. Cockx-Indestege, Classica et Humanistica (Gulden Passer, 2003), nr. 48 ; Goff C742; HC 5451; BMC V 522; Bod-inc C-378; BSB-Ink C-461; GW 7123; Fowler 392; Sander 2017