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CHRYSOLORAS (EMANUEL) Ἐρωτήματα [Erotemata. Incipit:] '[Ε]ἰς πόσα διαρου̂νται τὰ εἰκοσιτέσσερα γράμματα...', [colophon:] Florence, Lorenzo di Alopa, [c.1496]
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A FINE AND RARE COPY OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL GREEK GRAMMAR OF THE RENAISSANCE. The Byzantine scholar Emanuel Chrysoloras (c.1355-1415) was born in Constantinople, and came to Florence in 1397 to teach Greek, where his pupils included Leonardo Bruni and Palla Strozzi. His Erotemata ('Questions') was the first basic Greek grammar in use in Western Europe, and was first printed in Venice by Adam de Ambergau around 1471. There are nine incunable editions listed on ISTC, but only four copies in total have appeared at auction in the post war period, none of which were the present edition.





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