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EUNAPIUS SARDIANUS

De vitis philosophorum et sophistarum, nunc primum Graece & Latine editus, interprete Hadriano Junio Hornano [...]

Antwerp
Chr. Plantin
1568, 18 February

€500 - €600

8vo: 2 parts, 194-[6], 213-[2, 1 bl.] pp. Part I (Latin texts) in italics, part II in Greek. Woodcut mark on titles. The text was taken from a manuscript in the possession of the Austro-Hungarian humanist Johannes Sambucus, 19th-c. marbled leather, gilt flat spine with morocco label, marbled edges, marbled endpapers (1 corner sl. def.). Very good copy

Editio princeps of the original Greek text of biographies of 24 philosophers and sophists by Eunapius from Sardis (4th-5th c.), edited by the Dutch scholar Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575). These lives are a unique source of later Neoplatonism. With a Latin acrostic poem for Elizabeth I of England Ref. Voet (Plantin Press) 1142-1143. - Sorgeloos 218-219. - BT 1074. - Adams E-1028. Prov. Monastic ownership entry on title

Humanism