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EURIPIDES.
Tragoediae septendecim.
Greek text, edited by Marcus Musurus.
[268]; [190]
leaves. 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 161x100 mm, contemporary limp vellum with
remnants of thong ties, medieval manuscript vellum strips used as internal spine reinforce-
ments; light marginal dampstaining toward end; cloth folding case.
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Venice: Aldus, February 1503
[20,000/30,000]
FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK
of the extant plays, with the exception of the 4
plays (Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, and Andromache) previously published circa 1495, and
Electra, which first appeared in 1545; issue with preface on A1v and epigrams on A2r.
Renouard, page 43(10); New UCLA 69; Hoffmann II, 68; Fletcher, In Praise of Aldus
Manutius, page 51 (“not superseded until the eighteenth century”).
