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EUCLID (fl. c. 300 B.C.E.)

Lot 95
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Lot 95 | EUCLID (fl. c. 300 B.C.E.)
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EUCLID (fl. c. 300 B.C.E.)

Elementa geometriae, in Greek. Edited by Simon Grynaeus (1493-1541). Commentary by Proclus (c.412-485). Basel: Johann Herwagen, September 1533.

Editio Princeps with extensive early annotations showing close engagement with the text; the first edition to inset Euclid’s diagrams in the text. The commentary by Proclus on the first book of the Elements is 'the earliest contribution to the philosophy of mathematics and a valuable source for the history of science' (Norman). For his edition of Euclid, Herwagen employed some of the leading scholars of the period; Grynaeus, the editor of the Greek text, was a friend of Melanchthon, Thomas More and Cuthbert Tunstall, to whom he dedicated the edition. The text of the Elements was a recension of a manuscript sent from Venice by Lazarus Bayfius and a second sent from Paris by John Ruellius, with occasional references to Zamberti's printed Latin translation (Venice: 1505). The commentary was taken from a manuscript supplied by John Claymond, President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Grynaeus's was the only complete edition of the Greek Euclid to be printed before the 18th century. The close annotations in Greek in Book 1 and in the commentary, many illustrated with precise geometric illustrations, make this an interesting copy revealing how both texts were first used. Adams E-890; Hoffman II, p. 165; Brunet II, 1087; Thomas-Stanford 7; Norman 730.



Folio (307 x 212mm). Woodcut and type-rule geometrical diagrams in the text, woodcut printer's device on title and final verso, 8-part woodcut border on r recto, woodcut headpieces, woodcut and metalcut historiated initials (occasional light marginal dampstaining). 18th-century russia, black morocco label gilt (corners worn, chipped at head of spine). Provenance: extensive early Greek and Latin ms. annotations and corrections on the first 61 pp. (Book I) and the last 115 (Proclus’ commentary in Greek and Latin) with numerous ms diagrammatic worked examples – stamp removed from title verso (resultant small hole repaired).





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