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List of editiones principes in Greek
...In classical scholarship, the editio princeps (plural: editiones principes) of a work is the first printed edition of the work, that previously had existed only in manuscripts, which could be circulated only after being copied by hand. The following is a list of Greek literature works.
Greek works
15th century
| Date | Author, Work | Printer | Location | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| c. 1474[1] | Batrachomyomachia[1] | Thomas Ferrandus[1] | Brescia[1] | Undated and without place or printer. The book carries an interlinear Latin prose translation together with the Greek text on one page and on the opposite one a metrical Latin translation.[1] The first edition with a date is the 1486 edition by Leonicus Cretensis. |
| 1478[2]-1479[3] | Aesopus, Fabulae[4][2] | B. & J. A. de Honate[4] | Milan[4] | Edited by Bonus Accursius. Undated, the book contained also a Latin translation by Ranuccio Tettalo. These 127 fables are known as the Collectio Accursiana, the newest of the three recensions that form the Greek Aesopica. The oldest Greek recension is the Collectio Augustana, in 231 fables, that was published only in 1812 by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider in Breslau. The last recension is the Collectio Vindobonensis, made of 130 fables, that was first edited in 1776 by Thomas Tyrwhitt.[5][3][6][7] Concerning The Aesop Romance, of it also three recensions exist: the one printed in this edition is the Vita Accursiana, while the second to be printed was in 1845 the Vita Westermanniana, edited in Braunschweig by Anton Westermann. The Last recension to be printed was the Vita Perriana, edited in 1952 in Urbana by Ben Edwin Perry.[4][8][9][10] |
| Vita Aesopi[4][8] | ||||
| c. 1482[2] | Hesiodus, Opera et dies[4][2] | B. & J. A. de Honate[4] | Milan[4] | Edited by Bonus Accursius.[4] Undated, only Theocritus' first 18 idylls are contained in this edition.[2] A wider arrange of idylls appeared in the 1495–1496 Aldine Theocritus which had idylls I-XXIII.[11] A further amount of yet unpublished idylls were printed in Rome together with their old scholia by Zacharias Calliergis in his 1516 edition of Theocritus.[12] |
| Theocritus, Idyllia[4][2] | ||||
| 1488–1489[13] | Homerus, Ilias and Odyssea[13] | Florence[13] | Edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles, the book was printed with the help of Demetrius Damilas that reelaborated the Greek types he had previously used in Milan. The editorial project was completed thanks to the financial support of Giovanni Acciaiuoli and the patronage of Neri and Bernardo de' Nerli together with, the latter also author of an opening dedication to Piero de' Medici. The edition includes also the previously printed Batrachomyomachia. As for the typography the volume has traditionally been attributed to the prolific printer Bartolomeo de' Libri, attribution denied by recent scholarship. The issue thus remains unresolved.[13][14][15] | |
| Hymni Homerici[13] | ||||
| Ps.-Herodotus, De vita Homeri[16] | ||||
| Ps.-Plutarch, De vita et poesi Homeri[16] | ||||
| Dio Cocceianus, De Homero[16] | ||||
| 1493[13] | Isocrates, Orationes[13][17] | Ulrich Scinzenzeler & Sebastianus de Ponte Tremulo[18] | Milan[13] | Edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles. The edition also contains 3 ancient lives of Isocrates written by Plutarch, Philostratus and Dionysius of Halicarnassus.[13][17][19] |
| Dionysius Halicarnasseus, De Isocrate[20] | ||||
| 1494[21][22] | Anthologia Planudea[21] | Laurentius de Alopa[21] | Florence[21] | Edited by Janus Lascaris.[21] In this occasion Lascaris used as a typographic font exclusively small capitals in an archaistic effect created so to recapture the feeling of ancient epigraphy. This was to be a characteristic aspect of all the Greek books published together by Lorenzo de Alopa and Lascaris.[23] |
| c. 1494[23] | Euripides,[21] Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis and Andromache[24] | Laurentius de Alopa[21] | Florence[21] | Edited by Janus Lascaris. The volume, undated, was printed sometime before June 18, 1494.[21] The typographic font was, as usual with Lascaris, only made of capital letters.[23] |
| 1494[25] | Menander, Monosticha[22][23] | Laurentius de Alopa[23] | Florence[23] | Edited by Janus Lascaris.[23] |
| 1494–1496[23][26] | Musaeus, Hero and Leander[23][27] | Laurentius de Alopa[23] | Florence[23] | Edited by Janus Lascaris.[23] About the same time Aldus Manutius printed in Venice another edition of Musaeus, also undated, but probably published in 1495.[26][28] |
| c. 1494[29] | Theodorus Prodromus,Galeomyomachia[30] | Aldus Manutius[30] | Venice[30] | Edited by Arsenius Apostolius. Undated.[30] |
| 1494[23]-1496[21] | Callimachus, Hymni[22] | Laurentius de Alopa[21] | Florence[21] | Edited by Janus Lascaris. Undated.[22] |
| 1495[31][32] | Ps.-Pythagoras, Aurei Versus[31] | Aldus Manutius[31] | Venice[31] | Also contains Constantine Lascaris' Erotemata. This edition is also notable as Manutius' first publication.[33] |
| Ps.-Phocylides, Sententiae[33][32] | ||||
| 1495–1498[34][35] | Aristoteles[34] | Aldus Manutius[34] | Venice[36] | An edition in five volumes in folio of the complete works of Aristotle. The first volume was printed in November 1495 while the last came out in 1498. Theophrastus' works came out together in 1497.[36] Notably absent in this edition of Aristotle's works are the Rhetorica and the Poetica and also the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum.[37][38] Concerning the Problemata, they came out in 1497 in its shorter recension in two books; the longer recension in four books came out in Paris in 1857 due to Hermann Usener.[39] As for Theophrastus, all his published works came out in 1497 dispersed through the second, third and fourth volumes.[35] |
| Theophrastus, De signis, De causis plantarum, De historia plantarum, De lapidibus, De igne, De odoribus, De ventis, De lassitudine, De vertigine, De sudore, Metaphysica, De piscibus in sicco degentibus[35][40][41] | ||||
| Porphyrius,[34] Isagoge[42] | ||||
| Philo, De mundo[43] | ||||
| Ps.-Alexander Aphrodisiensis, Problemata[44][39] | ||||
| Diogenes Laërtius, Vita Aristotelis and Vita Theophrasti[45] | ||||
| 1495[46] | Apollonius Dyscolus, De constructione[47][46] | Aldus Manutius[46] | Venice[46] | Contained together with Theodorus Gaza's Grammatica.[46] |
| Aelius Herodianus, De numeris[46] | ||||
| 1495–1496[48][49][50] | Bion, Adonis[48] | Aldus Manutius[48] | Venice[48] | The edition contains also the idylls I–XXIII attributed to Theocritus.[11][48] It must be also noted that only Theognis' first book of elegies is printed here.[51] |
| Moschus, Europa[49] | ||||
| Hesiodus[49] | ||||
| Scutum Herculis[49][51] | ||||
| Theognis[50] | ||||
| Ps.-Moschus, Epitaphium Bionis[11][51] | ||||
| Ps.-Moschus, Megara[11][51] | ||||
| 1496[21][52] | Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica[22] | Laurentius de Alopa[21] | Florence[21] | Edited by Janus Lascaris. Present in the book are also the so-called Florentine scholia, contained in the manuscript used by Lascaris for this edition.[22][52] |
| 1496[53] | Lucianus[21][22] | Laurentius de Alopa[21] | Florence[21] | Edited by Janus Lascaris.[22] |
| 1494–1496[54][55] | Plutarch, De liberis educandis[54] | Laurentius de Alopa[54] | Florence[54] | Edited by Janus Lascaris.[56] |
| Ps.-Cebes, Tabula Cebetis[55] | ||||
| Xenophon, Hiero[56] | ||||
| Basilius Magnus, De liberalibus studiis | ||||
| 1496[57] | Joannes Philoponus, De dialectis[57] | Aldus Manutius[57] | Venice | Found in the Thesaurus cornu copiae et horti Adonidis.[57] |
| 1497[14][58] | Zenobius, Proverbia[14] | Benedetto Filologo[14] | Florence[14] | Edited by Philippus Junta.[14][58] |
| 1497[59][60] | Ammonius Grammaticus, De adfinium vocabulorum differentia[59] | Aldus Manutius[61] | Venice[59] | Edited by Giovanni Crastone together with his Lexicon graeco-latinum.[59] |
| Joannes Philoponus, De vocabulis quae diversum significatum exhibent secundum differentiam accentus[62][60] | ||||
| 1498[63] | Aristophanes[63] | Aldus Manutius[63] | Venice[63] | 9 of Aristophanes' 11 surviving comedies were printed; together with them were Marcus Musurus' metric scholia. Missing in the volume were the Lysistrata and the Thesmophoriazusae which would appear only in 1515.[28][63] |
| 1498[64] | Ps.-Phalaris, Epistolae[64] | Johannes Bissolus & Benedictus Mangius[64] | Venice[64] | Edited by Bartholomaeus Pelusius and Gabriel Bracius.[64] |
| Apollonius Tyaneus, Epistolae[65] | ||||
| Marcus Junius Brutus, Epistolae[64] | ||||
| 1499[12] | Etymologicum Magnum[12] | Zacharias Calliergis[12] | Venice[12] | Published at the expense of Nikolas Vlastos, the volume was probably edited by Marcus Musurus.[12] |
| 1499[12][66] | Simplicius, In Aristotelis Categorias commentarium[12] | Zacharias Calliergis[12] | Venice[12] | |
| 1499[67][68] | Dioscurides, De materia medica[67] | Aldus Manutius[67] | Venice[67] | |
| Nicander, Theriaca and Alexipharmaca[69] | ||||
| 1499[13] | Suda[13] | I. Bissolus & B. Mangius[64] | Milan[13] | Edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles.[13] |
| 1499[70] | Aratus, Phaenomena[70] | Aldus Manutius[70] | Venice[70] | Present in a bilingual miscellany titled Scriptores astronomici veteres which included also works by Firmicus Maternus, Manilius, Germanicus, Cicero and Avienius.[70][71] |
| Ps.-Proclus, Sphaera[72] | ||||
| Theon Grammaticus, Commentaria in Aratum[71] | ||||
| Leontius Mechanicus, De Arati Sphaerae constructione[73] | ||||
| 1499[74] | Plato, Epistolae[74] | Aldus Manutius[74] | Venice[74] | Edited by Marcus Musurus. All these letters are contained in a compilation titled Epistolae diversorum philosophorum, oratorum, rhetorum.[74][28] Many of these epistolary collections are incomplete in this edition: for example, only 21 letters by Basil were printed. A larger collection of 61 of his letters was edited by Vincentius Obsopoeus in 1528 in Hagenau.[75][76] Concerning Alciphron, 44 letters are available in the Aldine and it was only in 1715 in Leipzig that Stephan Bergler edited other 72 letters, printed by Thomas Fritsch. Further discoveries were made until Ernrst Eduard Seiler in 1853 in Leipzig first edited Alciphron's full extant corpus of 123 letters.[77] |
| Ps.-Diogenes Cynicus, Epistolae[67] | ||||
| Libanius, Epistolae[53] | ||||
| Synesius, Epistolae[78] | ||||
| Isocrates, Epistolae[19] | ||||
| Claudius Aelianus, Epistolae[79] | ||||
| Alciphro, Epistolae[77] | ||||
| Demosthenes, Epistolae[76] | ||||
| Ps.-Demetrius Phalereus, Epistolae[76] | ||||
| Ps.-Aristoteles, Epistolae[76] | ||||
| Ps.-Hippocrates, Epistolae[76] | ||||
| Ps.-Crates Thebanus, Epistolae[76] | ||||
| Ps.-Heraclitus Ephesius, Epistolae[76] | ||||
| Ps.-Anacharsis, Epistolae[76] | ||||
| Ps.-Euripides, Epistolae[76] | ||||
| Philostratus Atheniensis, Epistolae[76] | ||||
| Theophylactus Simocattus, Epistolae[80] | ||||
| Aeneas Gazaeus, Epistolae[76] | ||||
| Procopius Gazaeus, Epistolae[76] | ||||
| Dionysius Sophista, Epistolae[76] | ||||
| Basilius Caesariensis, Epistolae[76] | ||||
| Ps.-Chion Heracleensis, Epistolae[76] | ||||
| Ps.-Aeschines Orator, Epistolae[76] | ||||
| Julianus Apostata, Epistolae[76] |