Aiskhylou Prometheus Desmotes, hepta epi Thebais, Persai, Agamemnon, Eumenides, Hiketides.

Aeschylus

Edité par Adrien Turnebus, 1552

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Aiskhylou Prometheus Desmotes, hepta epi Thebais, Persai, Agamemnon, Eumenides, Hiketides. (Paris, Adrien Turnebus, Printer to the King, 1552). 8vo (172 x 114 mm), [8], 211, [1]. Garamond's grecs du roi type. Woodcut printer's basilisk device to title page, woodcut foliated headpieces and initials throughout. Old calf, rebacked. Boards somewhat worn. Housed in a custom blue cloth solander case with gilt-lettered red morocco labels. Title page and preliminary leaves browned at top and bottom, rarely affecting text. Bookplate of Albert H. Howard (AHA) at rear of book and case. The editio princeps of Aeschylus, edited by Franciscus Asulanus, was printed by the Aldine press in 1518. Asulanus' text is notoriously desultory, and it was not until 1552, when two editions-Turnèbe's and Robortello's (Venice)-were printed simultaneously and independently, that material advances were made in the constitution of the text. Turnèbe corrected the text in no fewer than 191 places, a record not surpassed by any subsequent editor (see M. L. West, Studies in Aeschylus, Stuttgart and Leipzig [1990], 357). Adrien Turnèbe (Latenised as Turnebus) succeeded Robert Estienne as Professor of Greek at the College Royale and as Royal Printer. One of the greatest scholars of the French Renaissance, he edited many obscure and difficult texts. His Adversaria, published in three volumes, rank alongside Bude's Commentaria and Estienne's Thesaurus Linguae Graecae as monuments to the apogee of Greek scholarship in Renaissance France.

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• Titre: Aiskhylou Prometheus Desmotes, hepta epi Thebais, Persai, Agamemnon, Eumenides, Hiketides.
• Éditeur: Adrien Turnebus
• Date de parution: 1552
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Good