Author: BUDAEUS, G.
Title: Commentarii linguae graecae. Ab eodem accurate recogniti, atque amplius tertia parte aucti.
Description: Paris, Robert Estienne, 1548. Folio. (34x20, 6cm). 1112, [38 indices], [1 colophon] pp. Modern half morocco. (a few catalogue entries on paste-down; one small marginal wormhole in ca. the first 200 pp; a few pages with light marginal waterstain; very nice copy) ¶ Provenance: ms. owner's entries: "Ex libris Theodori Duntij (?) Venlonensis", and "B. Wolde". ¶ `The first full-scale analysis of Greek prose usage based on direct study of the whole range of accessible ancient sources". (Anthony .Grafton).Considered to be the most beautiful and best edition. Augmented greatly in comparison to the first editions (1529 and 1530), this work was used as a basis for Estienne's Thesaurus linguae graecae. Primarily meant to elucidate the legal terminology of Greece and Rome, the Commentarii soon became a veritable text book and common storehouse for succeeding lexicographers. Guillaume Budé thus gained a commanding reputation by this book. Budaeus was, beyond question, the best Greek scholar of his day in Europe. (Sandys II/ 170-171; The Quarterly Review 22, p.313; Cambridge Modern History I.612). "Edition la meilleure de ces disquisitions très savantes, qui ont été fort utiles à la science, mais dont on fait maintenant peu d'usage." (Renouard, Estienne 71/72.7). ¶ Adams B3096; Ebert 3115; Brunet I.1374; Graesse I.565.

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