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2 unusual facts about Editio princeps


Aimoin of Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Both of these were first edited in the second volume of Historiae Francorum Scriptores, published at Paris in 1639–49.

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De Administrando Imperio

The editio princeps, which was based on V, was published in 1611 by Johannes Meursius, who gave it the Latin title by which it is now universally known, and which translates as On Administering the Empire.

Devanagari transliteration

The editio princeps of the Rigveda by Max Müller was in Devanagari, a typographical tour de force at the time.

Isaac Casaubon

This was followed by the text of Polyaenus, an editio princeps, 1589; a text of Aristotle, 1590; and a few notes contributed to Estienne's editions of Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Pliny's Epistolae.

Stephan Bergler

In addition to writing numerous articles for the Leipzig Acta Eruditorum, Bergler edited the editio princeps of the Byzantine historiographer Genesius (1733), and the letters of Alciphron (1715), which contained 75 letters published for the first time.


see also

Marcus Manilius

The editio princeps of Astronomicon was prepared by the astronomer Regiomontanus, using very corrupted manuscripts, and published in Nuremberg about 1473.

Marquard Gude

Mention may also be made of his editio princeps (1661) of the treatise of Hippolytus the Martyr on Antichrist, and of his notes on Phaedrus (with four new fables discovered by him) published in Pieter Burmann's edition (1698).

Order of Mass

Facsimile: Manlio Sodi, Antonio Maria Triacca, Missale Romanum. Editio princeps (1570), Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 1998, ISBN 88-209-2547-8), but in later editions Ordo Missae in more classical Latin was used.

Papyrus 49

The text of the codex was published by William Hatch and Bradford Welles in 1958 (editio princeps).