Mirandula De Floravantis, Octavianus

Viridarium illustrium poeta[rum] cum ipso[rum] concordantiis in alphabetica tabula accuratissime conte[n]tis

Venetiis: accuratissime impressum p[er] Bernardinu[m] de Vital' Venetu[m], 1507. 8vo, [62], 227, [1] leaves; collating: pi⁴ a-f⁸ g¹⁰ ²a-²g⁸ h-z⁸ A-E⁸ F⁴; printer's woodcut device on recto of final leaf, woodcut initials, 19th-century polished brown calf neatly rebacked, gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1; nice copy. First edition of what became a standard collection of classical Latin verse (including a 20-odd page section on Horace), for pedagogical purposes, compiled by Octavianus Mirandula. Drawn from the writings of 22 authors, the collection is alphabetically indexed with over 2100 key word entries to provide access to thousands of proverbs, popular sayings, apothegms, and current expressions. Each new idea or phrase in the text has a letter of the alphabet set opposite it in the margin, so the citation to it in the index--by folio and letter--allows for immediate location of the information. Not in Adams, Mills College Check List, or Riedel-Horatiana; BM-STC Italian, p. 440. Item #70322

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