ZENOBIUS (fl. early 2nd century A.D.). Epitome proverbiorum Tarrhaei et Didymi , in Greek. \kEpitomh tvn Tarraioy kai Didymoy paroimivn\K. Edited by Benedictus Ricardinus (fl. late-15th and 16th century). Florence: [possibly Bartolommeo di Libri for] Philippus Giunta, [not before 23 September], 1497. Chancery 4° (208 x 135 mm). Collation: [1 4 ] (1 blank, 2r-3r editor's Latin dedicatory letter to Georgius Dathus, Florentine canon, 3r-4r errata in Greek, 4v blank); α-υ 8 (Zenobius's text, υ7v Latin colophon, υ8 blank). 66 leaves (without the two blanks). Types 3:114G (dedication), 4:121Gk (text). 25-28 lines. Initial-spaces. (Outer blank corners of 1/2 renewed, as well as the upper outer blank corners of 1/3 and υ7, quires δ and ζ and three bifolia in quires α and β misbound, washed and pressed, υ7 limp through lack of resizing, affecting a few letters.) Crimson morocco gilt, edges gilt, [by C. Smith]. Provenance : Richard Heber (collection stamp). EDITIO PRINCEPS of an obscure collection of proverbs compiled by a Greek writer who lived at Rome. FILIPPO GIUNTA'S FIRST PUBLICATION. The text was reprinted in the Aldine Aesop of 1505 (Ren. 49.6). BMC and CIBN assign the printing of the book and of the Orpheus (lot 48) to Ricardinus, but this humanist was the editor of the text and corrector at Giunta's shop until 1507. The gothic type in Zenobius and the roman in Orpheus belonged to Di Libri, whereas the greek type is a recast of Damilas's ubiquitous fount, originally designed for Paravisinus of Milan (1476), shortly afterwards employed by Accursius at Florence (see lots 37 and 40) and later found in the editio princeps of Homer (with which Di Libri also had a connection, see lot 46). However, Giunta may already have had his own press at this date; a notarial document of the same year records the sale and loan of typographical material from Giunta to Lucius Bellantius, whose sole work was printed by Gerardus of Haarlem (see W.A. Pettas, The Giunti of Florence p. 33-35). Ricardinus in his dedicatory preface refers to the inexperience with which this first work was printed, and the Zenobius colophon specifically states that it was printed Cura Phylippi de zunta and not just at his expense. Although there are four copies in the British Library, only two are located in American and seven in Italian libraries, and the book is OF CONSIDERABLE RARITY on the market. HC *16283; BMC VI, 690 (IB. 28061 and 28061a-c); Goff Z-24; IGI 10440; CIBN Z-11; Flodr, Zenobius 1; Renouard XXXIII.1; Pettas p. 194; Proctor, Printing of Greek p. 69-70. Botfield 213-14.
ZENOBIUS (fl. early 2nd century A.D.). Epitome proverbiorum Tarrhaei et Didymi , in Greek. \kEpitomh tvn Tarraioy kai Didymoy paroimivn\K. Edited by Benedictus Ricardinus (fl. late-15th and 16th century). Florence: [possibly Bartolommeo di Libri for] Philippus Giunta, [not before 23 September], 1497. Chancery 4° (208 x 135 mm). Collation: [1 4 ] (1 blank, 2r-3r editor's Latin dedicatory letter to Georgius Dathus, Florentine canon, 3r-4r errata in Greek, 4v blank); α-υ 8 (Zenobius's text, υ7v Latin colophon, υ8 blank). 66 leaves (without the two blanks). Types 3:114G (dedication), 4:121Gk (text). 25-28 lines. Initial-spaces. (Outer blank corners of 1/2 renewed, as well as the upper outer blank corners of 1/3 and υ7, quires δ and ζ and three bifolia in quires α and β misbound, washed and pressed, υ7 limp through lack of resizing, affecting a few letters.) Crimson morocco gilt, edges gilt, [by C. Smith]. Provenance : Richard Heber (collection stamp). EDITIO PRINCEPS of an obscure collection of proverbs compiled by a Greek writer who lived at Rome. FILIPPO GIUNTA'S FIRST PUBLICATION. The text was reprinted in the Aldine Aesop of 1505 (Ren. 49.6). BMC and CIBN assign the printing of the book and of the Orpheus (lot 48) to Ricardinus, but this humanist was the editor of the text and corrector at Giunta's shop until 1507. The gothic type in Zenobius and the roman in Orpheus belonged to Di Libri, whereas the greek type is a recast of Damilas's ubiquitous fount, originally designed for Paravisinus of Milan (1476), shortly afterwards employed by Accursius at Florence (see lots 37 and 40) and later found in the editio princeps of Homer (with which Di Libri also had a connection, see lot 46). However, Giunta may already have had his own press at this date; a notarial document of the same year records the sale and loan of typographical material from Giunta to Lucius Bellantius, whose sole work was printed by Gerardus of Haarlem (see W.A. Pettas, The Giunti of Florence p. 33-35). Ricardinus in his dedicatory preface refers to the inexperience with which this first work was printed, and the Zenobius colophon specifically states that it was printed Cura Phylippi de zunta and not just at his expense. Although there are four copies in the British Library, only two are located in American and seven in Italian libraries, and the book is OF CONSIDERABLE RARITY on the market. HC *16283; BMC VI, 690 (IB. 28061 and 28061a-c); Goff Z-24; IGI 10440; CIBN Z-11; Flodr, Zenobius 1; Renouard XXXIII.1; Pettas p. 194; Proctor, Printing of Greek p. 69-70. Botfield 213-14.
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