Prisciani grammatici caesariensi Libri omnes. De octo partibus orationis XVI. Deg, constructione earundem -De XII. Primis Aeneid. Librorum carminibus. -De accentibus tam nominum quam uerborum -De ponderibus & mensuris -De praexercitamentis rhetor. Ex Hermog. -De uersibus comicis -Rusini item de metris comicis & oratoris numeris -Cum indice copiosissimo

New edition. Although we have found no trace of this Basel edition, the first edition was published in Venice by Aldus in 1527 (with a different collation). Not held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and absent from French catalogues. Oxford holds an edition with the same date. English catalogues mention several copies at different dates. Printed in italic type.
Fine contemporary German binding on pigskin with clasps in perfect working order. Spine with 3 raised bands, unlettered, with handwritten paper lettering piece, boards stamped in blind with decorative rolls in frames (leafy designs with medallions representing Erasmus of Rotterdam and Philip of Milan, Martin of Paris, John of ??). Central rectangle with interlacing foliate mirror patterns. 2 dampstains on the upper board (one 2cm in diameter and the other 4cm extending outward). Fresh paper.
Priscian was a Roman grammarian of the 6th century AD, whose Latin name was Priscianus Caesariensis (named after his native city of Caesarea, in Mauritania). Little is ultimately known of his existence, except that he taught in Constantinople, and above all that his major work to which he owes his fame, the Institutiones Grammaticae (in 18 books), became the reference for Latin grammar until the end of the Middle Ages. The present work is a collection that brings together different works by Priscian, linguistic studies or translations of Hermogenes and Dionysius Periegetes.