EURIPIDES POETA TRAGICORUM PRINCEPS
Pivotal Renaissance-era edition of the complete extant plays of Euripides, the first to include a complete Latin translation alongside the original Greek text.
Very good.
Price: $4,000.00
EURIPIDES POETA TRAGICORUM PRINCEPS
"[A]n indispensable volume to a critical collector of the works of this fascinating Greek tragedian" — Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Among the greatest of the Ancient Greek playwrights of classical Athens, Euripides is one of only three tragedians (along with Aeschylus and Sophocles) for whom any complete plays survive. Scholar-printer Oporinus first printed selected excerpts from Euripides in 1559 (ARISTOLOGIA EURIPIDEA GRAECOLATINA), with this complete edition of the plays appearing shortly after in 1562 — significantly, marking the first complete Latin translation of the playwright's extant corpus to appear in print. While Oporinus is particularly well-known for his editions of classical texts and was famously jailed (and subsequently defended by Martin Luther) for printing the first Latin translation of the Quran, Oporinus is perhaps best-remembered as the printer of Andreas Vesalius's era-defining DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA LIBRI SEPTEM (1543). A handsome copy of a significant edition.
Read more: Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) 654877; Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent, E1036; Dibdin, Introduction to [...] Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics, 528.
The Object
Basilae [Basel]: Ioannis Oporini [Johannes Oporinus], (1562). Full title: Euripides poeta tragicorum princeps, in latinum sermonem conversus, adiecto eregione textu Graeco. Folio, 12.5'' x 8.5''. 17th-century brown speckled calf with blind rules, rebacked, gilt-stamped black calf spine label. All edges stained red, endpapers renewed. Text in Greek and Latin; translated by Stiblinus. Woodcut headpieces and initials. Index at rear. Lacking final blank (as common). 845, [24], [1]. Some edgewear and scuffing to boards. Title page with 18th-century ink owner name and a few small closed tears (not affecting text), text with a bit of marginal toning and scattered foxing, a few sections of faint dampstaining at lower margin. Firm.
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