Author: Latino Latini (ca. 1513-1593).
Title: Bibliotheca sacra, et profana sive observationes, correctiones, conjecturae, & variae lectiones in sacros, et profanos scriptores e marginalibus notis codicum ejusdem. A Domenico Macro...collectae. Et nunc primum, e Bibliotheca Brancaccia in lucem editae.
Description: Romae : sumptibus Pontii Bernardo (typis Angeli Bernabò), 1677. Contemp. vellum over paper binding. (16), 213, (1); (1), 79, (1 errata) pp. Title-page printed in red and black with large allegorical printer's device. Fine engraved portrait of the author by Catherina Ang. Bussi as frontispiece. Head- & tail-pieces. 2 volumes in 1. Folio 31x21 cm. Nice copy. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. Latino Latini (ca. 1513-1593), Italian humanist, member of the commission for the revision of the Corpus Juris canonici. He is known for his lifelong research into the texts of the fathers of the church and his critical editions thereof (Cyprian). He also superintended the production of the classic Roman edition of the Septuagint Version which appeared in 1587. This book contains his collected filological and critical remarks to texteditions of various classical authors in an edition edited by Domenico Magri (1604-1672). An earlier version had appeared in 1659. The chapter of the Cathedral of Viterbo acquired Latini's important library wich contained many annotated copies. Graesse, IV, 119. Small old libray stamp on title-page and half-title. Shelf-mark on first free endpaper. Occasional browning; small tear in one page; some marginal worming without touching the text.

Keywords: CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY,