Lycophronis Lycophronis chalcidensis Alexandra, cum graecis Isaacii Tzetzis commentariis....
Lycophronis Lycophronis chalcidensis Alexandra, cum graecis Isaacii Tzetzis commentariis. Accedunt versiones, variantes lectiones, emendationes, annotationes & indices necessarii. Cura & opera Johannis Potteri & Collegii Lincolniensis Socii. Oxonii, E Theatro Sheldoniano. Oxford, Sheldonianus, 1697. Folio, full calf, sometime rebacked, spine with contrasting morcco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers; eng. frontis., eng. tit. First ed. A deliberately (wilfully) obscure proto-Mannerist poem, full of obscure, doubtful archaicisms, practically impossible to understand without a commentary, for which obscurantist snobbery maybe the best explanation for its popularity. This Oxford edition by a future Archbishop of Canterbury includes the Tzetzes scholia and a Latin translation by Joseph Scaliger, along with an extensive commentary.