<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 2 parts in one 12mo. ff. [8], pp. 238, f. [1]; ff. [4] (including last blank), pp. 784. Signatures: *⁶ A-P⁸ )(⁴; 2A-3C⁸ ()(4 blank). Contemporary limp vellum with overlapping blue edges. Title printed within lavishly copper-engraved border representing various figures. Includes headpieces, initials, and marginal notes. Early library stamp of the ‘Herzogl. Karls-Gymnasium Bernburg Leher-Bibliothekon’ on second leaf and inside front cover, marked "ausgeschieden" (withdrawn). Ownership inscription of ‘Ansgari Raith Ratisponae’ dated 1974 on first binder's blank.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition of Petronius with the extensive commentary of Melchior Goldast (1576-1625) which is known as "by far the most bulky edition of Petronius that had yet appeared" (S. Gaselee, The Bibliography of Petronius. London, 1910, no. 23, p. 149). Besides the text it contains an extensive 784 page second part with the notes of more than twenty commentators, named and anonymous, including those of Pierre Pithou, Henri Estienne, Joannes Sambucus, Janus Dousa, et al. The most extensive and elaborate notes are those of "Georgius Erhardus," which was a pseudonym adopted by Goldastus himself. See also G.L. Schmeling &amp; J.H. Stuckey, A Bibliography of Petronius. Leiden, 1977, no. 36.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/t3c16/alma991003268589707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>