[Rarebooks] FS: 1st printing of Hierocles of Alexandria's commentary on Pythagoras' "Golden Verses" Paris: 1583

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Hierocles of Alexandria. ...HIEROCLIS PHILOSOPHI COMMENTARIUS in Aurea Pythagoreorum Carmina Joan. Curterio Interprete... Paris: Nicolaum Nivellium. 1583. 12mo. xxiv,247(i.e. 347),(1)pp. Index. Title and text in Greek and Latin. Woodcut device on title. BOUND WITH: Pythagoras. AUREA PYTHAGOREORUM Carmina Latine Conversa... Auctore T. Marcilio. Paris: Nicolaum Nivellium 1585. (2),11,(11),90,(6)pp. Greek & Latin. With both blank leaves, e4 and H4. 17th century calf, neatly rebacked, with red morocco label.    $1,250.00
I: This work is sometimes listed under Pythagoras. It is the first printing of Hierocles' commentary on the "Golden Verses" of Pythagoras. This Latin translation and editing is by Joannes Curterius. Graesse III, p. 272 (under Hierocles). See Adams P2312. BL French STC p. 368.
II: The first edition of this Latin translation and commentary by Theodorus Marcilius (Theodore Marcile) on the Golden Verses. Adams P2314. BL French STC p. 368. Graesse V, p. 516.
These two works are found separately as well as bound together. Certainly after 1585 the publisher would have offered these two complimentary texts together.

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