Catullus, Tibullus, et Propertius, Pristino nitori restituti, & ad optima Exemplaria emendati. Accedunt Fragmenta Cornelio Gallo inscripta

12mo. f. [1] (blank), pp. xvi, 344, f. [1] (blank), ff. [3] (plates). Calf. Gilded filets on boards, gilded spine, worn (red?) lettering panel, gilded edges. Marbled endpapers. Includes frontispiece, printer’s device on title page, engraved plates, head- and tailpieces, and engraved initials. Each section has special title page. Manuscript signature on title page. Stamp of "Bibl. Rhet. Prov. Franc. S. J."

Includes forgeries of Catullus by the editor, the Venetian poet and classicist Giovanni Francesco Corradino Dall’Aglio. There is also another edition published in 1743 in Paris, by Coustelier. An earlier edition by Corradino of a ‘manuscripto nuper Romae reperto,’ i.e. an imaginary ‘newly-discovered’ codex, from which many new readings were miraculously recovered (Venice, 1738, see Bib# 7138282/Fr# 1442.1 in this collection) was detected soon after publication. Nevertheless, his text was reprinted in smaller format in the present volume, in 1754, and in 1792, which eliminated Corradino’s lengthy commentary, although they contained a convenient assembly of the spurious readings in a ‘Specimen Emendationum’ prefixed to each.

Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.