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133
May '82
Mein wil am see
Dr Eichenberger
85 SF = $44.04

Etymologicum Magnum Graccum
(Ed. Marcus Musurus) Venice: Zacherias Callierges
for Nicolaus Blastus + Anna Notaros. 8 July 1499. F"
Ref: HC 6691 BMC V 580 GW9426 Goff E112 Eseling 1184.
Cop: Stan UL, HEHL. PML Pell 4629 folio p 100 NB
409x279mm
224 leaves, 2 col. 50-51 lines, 302x183(187)mm.
Type:121 Gk. Red printed woodcut capitals + borders, headings
and initial capitals of paragraphs (set out).
The poem of Muscures on 1a which deals with the technicalities
oof type casting is dicussed at length in Proctors Printing of Greek
in the 15th C. opp121-4 23 woodcut head-pieces
Cursive text type, delicate + regular, small face with accents,
breahings, ligature + contractions. The capitals are in
the Byzantine style + one tall + thin.

(ca. 1473-1524) Zacharias Callierges from Rethymno. for Nicolaus Blastus - this press
produced in 1499+1500, 4 Greek books beginning with the
Etymologicum.
- a fomidable rival of Aldus - a Creator of aristocratic
connetions, all of whose work in the 15th C was done on
commission for a wealthy fellow contryman, the book seller
N. Blastus. Like Aldus the partners had devoted 5 yrs.
to perfecting their Greek type before putting it into practical
use in the Etymologicum - very fine Greek Type, in one
piece with its accents, + setting the found quite apart from all
those cast on the Aldine principle with separate accuntuation.
Unfortunately some mischance, most probably the death of
his patron put a stop to the activities of Callierges just
before the close of the century + he does not appear in the
history of printing until 1509 at Venice + at Rome in 1515-23.
The press of Callierges was the last of any consequence
to be established in Venice before the close of the
century.

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