Alphabetum graecum & Alphabetum hebraicum. Graecum alphabetum. De potestate literarum, ac divisiones earundem. Abbreviationes, quibus Graeci frequentissime utuntur. Oratio Dominica, cum aliis quibusdam precatiunculis grece, versione latina è regione posita. Quibus adiectum est Hebraicum alphabetum. Et de pronunciatione punctorum. Venice: [heirs of Melchiorre Sessa, ca. 1563]
[Bound with:] Manuzio, Aldo. [Alphabetum hebraicum. Venice: Giovanni Nicolini da Sabbio for Melchiorre Sessa, 1530s]
An uncommon pair of grammatical texts. The Pegasus device which appears in the first work (CNCM 324) was in use by the heirs of Melchiorre Sessa between 1558 and 1597.
The Hebrew section is a very close copy of the final quire from the 1533 and 1539 Sessa editions of Constantinus Lascaris's Greek grammar (Edit16 30000 and 32044) and was presumably printed around the same time.
The earliest known owner of this book, Costanzo Crizi (d. 19 May 1653), was a nephew of Cardinal Costanzo Torri. He studied at the Archiginnasio di Bologna (1620-1621) and thereafter at the Collegio serafico San Bonaventura di Roma, where he obtained the title of sacrae theologiae doctor on 19 June 1625. Crizi started his career as a lecturer in philosophy in Venice, and afterwards taught at Franciscan convents in Assisi and Sarnano. The municipal library at Sarnano preserves five manuscripts and 48 books that belonged to him, including the Institutiones in Graecam linguam by Nicolas Cleynaerts and the Erotemata Guarini edited by Manuel Chrysoloras, which further attest to his interest in the Greek language. Crizi usually personalized his books by adding the Franciscan symbol of a seraphim, drawn on the spine, endpapers, title page or next to the colophon, sometimes combined with other decorative elements.
2 works in one volume, 8vo (152 x 100 mm). Roman, Greek and Hebrew type, 30 lines. collation: A8: 8 leaves; a4: 4 leaves. Woodcut Sessa device on first title-page.
binding: Modern carta rustica (157 x 105 mm).
provenance: Costantino Crizi (d. 1653), of Sarnano (Macerata), inscription on title-page. acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer, Inc., New York, 1994. references: No exact match found for either work.
Alphabetum graecum & Alphabetum hebraicum. Graecum alphabetum. De potestate literarum, ac divisiones earundem. Abbreviationes, quibus Graeci frequentissime utuntur. Oratio Dominica, cum aliis quibusdam precatiunculis grece, versione latina è regione posita. Quibus adiectum est Hebraicum alphabetum. Et de pronunciatione punctorum. Venice: [heirs of Melchiorre Sessa, ca. 1563]
[Bound with:] Manuzio, Aldo. [Alphabetum hebraicum. Venice: Giovanni Nicolini da Sabbio for Melchiorre Sessa, 1530s]
An uncommon pair of grammatical texts. The Pegasus device which appears in the first work (CNCM 324) was in use by the heirs of Melchiorre Sessa between 1558 and 1597.
The Hebrew section is a very close copy of the final quire from the 1533 and 1539 Sessa editions of Constantinus Lascaris's Greek grammar (Edit16 30000 and 32044) and was presumably printed around the same time.
The earliest known owner of this book, Costanzo Crizi (d. 19 May 1653), was a nephew of Cardinal Costanzo Torri. He studied at the Archiginnasio di Bologna (1620-1621) and thereafter at the Collegio serafico San Bonaventura di Roma, where he obtained the title of sacrae theologiae doctor on 19 June 1625. Crizi started his career as a lecturer in philosophy in Venice, and afterwards taught at Franciscan convents in Assisi and Sarnano. The municipal library at Sarnano preserves five manuscripts and 48 books that belonged to him, including the Institutiones in Graecam linguam by Nicolas Cleynaerts and the Erotemata Guarini edited by Manuel Chrysoloras, which further attest to his interest in the Greek language. Crizi usually personalized his books by adding the Franciscan symbol of a seraphim, drawn on the spine, endpapers, title page or next to the colophon, sometimes combined with other decorative elements.
2 works in one volume, 8vo (152 x 100 mm). Roman, Greek and Hebrew type, 30 lines. collation: A8: 8 leaves; a4: 4 leaves. Woodcut Sessa device on first title-page.
binding: Modern carta rustica (157 x 105 mm).
provenance: Costantino Crizi (d. 1653), of Sarnano (Macerata), inscription on title-page. acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer, Inc., New York, 1994. references: No exact match found for either work.
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