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CALLIMACHUS. Hymni . . . cum scholiis nunc primum aeditis. Sententiae . . . non ante excusae. Greek text, edited by Sigismund Gelenius. Woodcut white-on-black historiated initials, including 2 larger ones depicting Diogenes and Aristippus and David and Goliath. 245, [3] pages, including last leaf with printer's device on verso. 4to, 211x149 mm, 18th-century mottled sheep; minor marginal stains and soiling at beginning and end, old label remnant on front pastedown, top portion of front free endpaper excised and restored, outer half of rear free endpaper excised; title in ink on fore edges. Inscription on title page of Pedro de Carvajal, Predicador General, noting the absence of the book from the 1640 Index. wide-margined copy. Basel: (Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius, June) 1532
Third edition in the original Greek, and first to include previously unpublished scholia and short moral texts by other Greek authors. Hoffmann I, 428.
