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Venetiis, 1553. Apud Gualterum Scottum. 286+(1)p. With large, engraved vignette on title page.
Early, collected Janus Pannonius edition, based on publications by Beatus Rhenanus and Adrianus Volphardus.
Among the works of Janus Pannonius, only the 8th elegy of the first book of the Elegies (Kolozsvár, 1565, in Heltai's Bonfini edition, RMNy I. 209.) and the Eranemos (Debrecen, 1594, with an improved text compared to the Vienna one, RMNy I. 743.) were published in Hungary in the 16th century, so those early editions, which were published abroad, play an essential role in the textual tradition. The "Guarino-panegyricus" was first published in a separate edition with one elegy in 1512 in Vienna, and later, in addition to these two works, two epigrams were printed in 1513 in Bologna. In 1514, ten of his elegies were published in Vienna, and two editions are known from 1518, one in Krakow and the other in Basel by Frobenius. In 1522-1523, Adrianus Volphardus also published three Janus volumes in Bologna.
Among the early editions, this Venetian edition published by Hilarius Cantiuncula, is of great importance, as it can be considered the most complete collection of Janus volumes up to that time. Cantiuncula based the text on the 1518 Basel edition by Beatus Rhenanus but expanded its content with the texts of the Bologna volumes of Adrianus Volphardus: six elegies (changed in their order), Janus Pannonius' longest poem, the Marcellus-panegyricus, and one of his Homer translations (Diomedes and Glaucus). The same edition was published two years later in Basel by Oporinus with a minor change in the order (see our next item).
Contemporary vellum.
RMK III 418., EDIT16 CNCE 32721.