11th Sep, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 191
 

191

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.

Sold for £80
Estimated at £80 - £120


 

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