Priscianus [Incl. Dionysius Periegetes].

Opera. [De Octo Partibus Orationis; De Constructione; De Duodecim Carminibus; De Numeris; De Ponderibus Et Mensuris; De Versibus Comicis; De Declinationibus. [Also Contains: ] (Pseudo-) Priscianus: De Accentibus; (Pseudo-) Hermogenes: De...

      [Jacobus De Fivizzano, Lunensis] for Marcus De Comitibus and Gerardus, 1476. Benedictus Brognolus, ed. Chancery Folio. 266 x 190mm. a-n10, o-y, aa-ll8, kk-oo10, pp-qq8, rr10. [-a1 blank]. 349 [+2 = 351] leaves of 350 without initial blank leaf, but with duplicate of conjugate leaves t4-5 bound with first t4-5). 19th calf by Hatton of Manchester with blind rules and devices, spine banded title label, spine lightly faded, minor rubbing, red edges, marbled endpapers; bookplate and stamp of Earls of Macclesfield, early manuscript annotations (some on folding sections of the margins, where the rest of the margin has been trimmed), bb1-2 and ll4 slightly stained, occ. damp and mold staining in upper corner, last 3 leaves damaged and repaired with some loss of text (not affecting colophon). A very clean copy with ample margins. 35 lines, roman letter, 2-to 7-line initials supplied in red and blue Lombard letters. “ Priscianus, Latin grammarian, born at Caesarea (Mauretania), taught at Constantinople under Anastatius I (491-518). He delivered the panegyric of the Emperor Anastatius about 512; we possess this work in 312 hexameter verses, preceded by a prologue of 22 iambic senarii. Besides this he composed a "Periegenis" is 1087 hexameters; a translation of the work of the same name written under Hadrian by Dionysius of Alexandria; three works, dedicated to a certain Symmachus (perhaps the consul of 485), on numbers, numeration, and coins, on the metrical character of Latin comedies, on rhetoric according to the "Progymnasmata" at Hermogenes; the "Partitiones XII versuum Aeneidos" (on the versification of the Aeneid); a treatise "De aecentibus"; a compendium on declensions ("Institutio de nomine et pronomine at verbo"). But he is chiefly celebrated for a great work of which the last-named is an extract, the eighteen books of the "Institutiones Grammaticae", the most important grammatical work of antiquity which we possess. Each of these eighteen books has its own special title and subject. The first sixteen, often separately copied (...