Complvres Lvciani dialogi / à Desiderio Erasmo Roterodamo utriusque linguæ doctissimo in latinum conuersi ; & à Nicolao Buscoducensi illustrati ; Additis Fabularum & difficilium uocabulorum explanationibus cum tabula. Distichon ab Hadriano Barlando lusum Græcia me genuit, nuper facundus Erasmus Trastulit in latium, munere plaude puer. Leuini Linii Endecasyllabon ad puerum emptorem.
Title
Complvres Lvciani dialogi / à Desiderio Erasmo Roterodamo utriusque linguæ doctissimo in latinum conuersi ; & à Nicolao Buscoducensi illustrati ; Additis Fabularum & difficilium uocabulorum explanationibus cum tabula. Distichon ab Hadriano Barlando lusum Græcia me genuit, nuper facundus Erasmus Trastulit in latium, munere plaude puer. Leuini Linii Endecasyllabon ad puerum emptorem.
Date
1524
Place
Antuerpiæ [Antwerp]
Publisher
Michael Hillenius Hoochstratanus Antuerpiæ excudebat Sub intersignio Rapi [Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten]
Language
Latin
Contributor
Hadrianus Barlandus (Hadrianus Cornelii)
Editor
Nicolas Buscoducensis
Translator
Desiderius Erasmus
Note
FORMAT:
26, [2] leaves ; 15 cm. (small octavo).
26, [2] leaves ; 15 cm. (small octavo).
TYPE:
With 2 decorated woodcut initials, white on black with a stippled background.
With the main text set in an Aldine-style italic, the long commentary following each dialogue in a "Basel"-style roman (with guide words in the shoulder margins) and 2 words in Greek.
With 2 decorated woodcut initials, white on black with a stippled background.
With the main text set in an Aldine-style italic, the long commentary following each dialogue in a "Basel"-style roman (with guide words in the shoulder margins) and 2 words in Greek.
CONTENT:
Includes index.
Imprint from colophon.
Includes index.
Imprint from colophon.
MARGINALIA:
Victoria University Library copy has some contemporary marginal annotations, extensive on a few pages, and Latin proverbs and sayings on the blank verso of the last leaf.
Victoria University Library copy has some contemporary marginal annotations, extensive on a few pages, and Latin proverbs and sayings on the blank verso of the last leaf.
BINDING:
Victoria University Library copy bound in 18th-century half vellum, sewn on 2 tapes, the vellum taken from a 17th-century manuscript with an elaborate penwork-decorated D wrapped around what is now the spine, marbled sides.
Victoria University Library copy bound in 18th-century half vellum, sewn on 2 tapes, the vellum taken from a 17th-century manuscript with an elaborate penwork-decorated D wrapped around what is now the spine, marbled sides.
Archive Location
Library Catalog
Num Pages
56
Call Number
PA4231 .A2 1524
Erasmus Rare
References
OCLC: (OCoLC)150451511
OCLC: (OCoLC)ocn150451511
OCLC: (OCoLC)ocn150451511
Files
Collection
Citation
Lucian of Samosata, “Complvres Lvciani dialogi / à Desiderio Erasmo Roterodamo utriusque linguæ doctissimo in latinum conuersi ; & à Nicolao Buscoducensi illustrati ; Additis Fabularum & difficilium uocabulorum explanationibus cum tabula. Distichon ab Hadriano Barlando lusum Græcia me genuit, nuper facundus Erasmus Trastulit in latium, munere plaude puer. Leuini Linii Endecasyllabon ad puerum emptorem.,” Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies (CRRS) Rare Book Collection, accessed July 5, 2026, https://crrs.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/10369.