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Special Collections & Archives contains five books that were printed during Manutius' lifetime:

Title: Opera Graece
Author: Aristotle
Date: 1497
Language: Ancient Greek
Call Number: D0159

Opera Graece pagr 143.
Opera Graece page 144.
 

Two specimen leaves from the works of Aristotle in Ancient Greek. These leaves make up part of the works of Theophrastus, a student of Aristotle.

 

Demosthenous spine.Title: Demosthenous logoi
Author: Demosthenes
Date: 1504
Language: Ancient Greek
Call Number: D0161

A collection of 62 speeches by Ancient Greek orator Demosthenes. Demosthenes was the most widely read orator of the Middle Ages and Renaissance period and was celebrated for his eloquence, arrangement, and style.

 
Demosthenous page with Aldine press mark.
Demosthenous inner page with Aldine press mark.
 

This copy of the Aldus Demosthenes belonged to Charles James Fox, & it was given to me by his Widow.

 

Title: Pontani Opera
Author: Giovanni Gioviano Pontano
Date: 1505
Language: Latin
Call Number: A0174

A contemporary of Manutius, Pontano was an Italian humanist and poet whose works were printed at the Aldine Press. He later translated Quadripartitum by Ptolemy.

Pontani opera front cover.

Pontani opera inside page.

Pontani opera inside page.

 

         


Institutiones Oratoria spine.Title: Institutiones Oratoria
Author: Quintilian
Date: 1514
Language: Latin
Call Number: B0896

Quintilian was a Roman rhetorician from Spain who was active in the 1st century CE. Institutiones Oratoria, a twelve volume text on rhetoric, is his only extant work.

 

Institutiones Oratoria front cover.

Institutiones Oratoria inside page with Aldine press mark.

 

                  


Catullus spine.Title: Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius
Author: Catullus, Tibullus, Propertuis
Date: 1515
Language: Latin
Call Number: B0108

Catullus was a Roman poet who influenced Ovid, Horace and Virgil. This books contains works not only by Catullus, but also by Tibullus, and Propertius.

 

Catullus front cover.

Catullus inside front cover with insignia and notes.

Catullus inner pages.


   

Centre: the bookplate of Herbert Wilson Greene of Magdalen College.

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