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CATULLUS - TIBULLUS - PROPERTIUS

Catulli, Tibulli, Propertii nova editio, Iosephus Scaliger [...] recensuit. Eiusdem in eosdem Castigationum liber. Ad Cl. Puteanum [...]

Antwerp
Aegidius Radaeus
1582

€200 - €300

8vo: 3 parts, [12]-174 [= 274]-[2 bl.], 240-[7, 1 bl.], 192-[6, 2 bl.] pp. Printed in italics (poems) and roman type (notes). (including blank E7, S2 [pt. I] and N4 (pt. III]; toned, occasional minor soiling, spotting or staining; sm. hole in blank title margin). Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine titled in ink (soiled, tail def., ties gone). Good copy

Antwerp repr. of the 1577 ""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). Part I has the texts of the poets, part II Scaliger's Catigationes, part III the notes by M. A. Muretus. Ref. BT 607. - Adams C-1156. - Not in Smitskamp (Scaliger). Prov. Contemp. annotations or reader's marks in part I. A number of contemp. and later ownership entries on title and flyleaves

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