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In classical scholarship, editio princeps is a term of art. It means, roughly, the first printed edition of a work, that previously had existed only in manuscripts, which were therefore circulated only after being copied by hand.
For example, the editio princeps of Homer is that of Demetrius Chalcondyles, now thought to be from 1488. The most important texts of classical Greek and Roman authors were for the most part produced in editiones principes in the years on either side of 1500.
The picture is complicated by the possibilities of partial publication, of publication first in translation (for example from Greek to Latin), and of a usage that simply equates with first edition. For a work, such as Piers Plowman, with several strands of manuscript tradition that have diverged, it is a less meaningful concept.
The term has long been extended by scholars to works not part of the Ancient Greek and Latin literatures. It is also used for legal works, and other significant documents.
List to 1500 (incunabula, incomplete)
Date
| Author, Work
| Printer (or location)
| Comment
|
1455
| Bible (Latin)
| Johannes Gutenberg, Mainz
| Biblia Sacra Vulgata, 2 editions: 42 line and 36 line, see Gutenberg Bible.
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1465
| Cicero, De officiis
| Mainz
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1469
| Apuleius
| Sweynheym and Pannartz
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| Livy
| Rome
| Books 1-10, 21-32, 34-39.<ref>Gian Biagio Conte, Latin Literature: A History (1999 translation), p. 375.</ref>
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| Lucan
| Sweynheym and Pannartz
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| Virgil
| Rome
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| Caesar, De Bello Gallico
| Rome
|
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| Pliny the Elder
| Johannes de Spira
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c.1469
| Aulus Gellius
| Sweynheym and Pannartz
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1470
| Sallust<ref>http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Sallust</ref>
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|
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| Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum
| Rome
| Edited by Giannantonio Campano
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| Terence
|
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?1468-1470
| Tacitus
| Venice<ref>http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/tacitus/index.htm</ref>
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1471
| Ovid
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1471
| Pomponius Mela, De Chorographia libri tres
| Milan, Antonius Zarotus<ref>http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost01/Pomponius/pom_f.html</ref>
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|
1472
| Diodorus Siculus
| Poggio Bracciolini
| partial Latin translation; complete edition 1559<ref>http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Diodorus_Siculus</ref>
|
| Cato Maior, De Agri Cultura
| Venice, Nicolaus Jensonus
| Edited by Georgius Merula
|
| Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
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| Plautus
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| Varro, Rerum Rusticarum libri tres
| Venezia Nicolaus Jensonus
| Edited by Georgius Merula in the same volume as the above.
|
1473
| Lucretius
| Brescia
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c.1473
| Marcus Manilius, Astronomicon
| Regiomontanus
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|
1474
| Valerius Flaccus
| Bologna<ref>http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Gaius_Valerius_Flaccus</ref>
|
|
| ClaudianTemplate:Fact
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1475
| Historia Augusta
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1478
| Aulus Cornelius Celsus
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1482
| Horatius
| Firenze
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c. 1483
| Tertullian
|
| Complex history<ref>Tertullian : Early Printed Editions, Translations and Studies</ref>
|
c.1484
| Serenus Sammonicus
| Sulpitius Verulanus
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1488
| Avienus
|
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|
| Homer
| Demetrius Chalcondyles
|
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c.1493
| Hesiod, Works and Days
| Demetrius Chalcondyles
|
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1493
| Isocrates
| Demetrius Chalcondyles
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1495-1498
| Aristotle
| Aldus Manutius<ref>http://www.nls.uk/collections/rarebooks/collections/aldus_manutius.html</ref>
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1496
| Apollonius of Rhodes
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|
| Lucian
| Florence<ref>http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Lucian_(Satirist)</ref>
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1497
| Terentianus<ref>http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Textual_Criticism</ref>
|
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1498
| Aristophanes
| Aldine Press
|
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1499
| Alciphron
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| Martianus Capella
| Vicenza, F. Vitalis Bodianus<ref>http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Martianus_Minneus_Felix_Capella</ref>
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From 1501 to 1600
Date
| Author, Work
| Printer (or location)
| Comment
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1502
| Sophocles
|
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1503
| Euripides
| Aldine Press
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1504
| Quintus Smyrnaeus
| Aldus Manutius
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1513
| Lysias
| Aldus Manutius
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1513
| Lycophron
| Aldus Manutius
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| Plato
| Venice, Aldine Press<ref> Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge, The Son of Apollo: Themes of Plato (1972), p. 32.</ref>
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1515
| Jordanes, Romana
| Konrad Peutinger
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1516
| New Testament (Greek)
| Desiderius Erasmus, Basel
| 2nd ed. 1519, 3rd ed. 1522, see Textus Receptus.
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1518
| Aeschylus
| Aldine Press
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1520
| Marcus Velleius Paterculus
| Beatus Rhenanus<ref>http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/excat/berlin/classica.html</ref>
|
|
1520
| Rutilius Claudius Namatianus
| J. B. Pius
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|
1520
| Septuagint
|
| Complutensian Polyglot Bible
|
1520-3
| Talmud
| Daniel Bomberg, Venice
|
|
1524–25
| Bible (Hebrew)
| Daniel Bomberg, Venice
| Edition included masoretic notes, Aramaic targums and Rashi's commentary, see Mikraot Gedolot.
|
1525
| Galen
| Venice, Aldine<ref>http://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/histmed/medica/galien_va.htm</ref>
|
|
1526
| Irenaeus
| Erasmus, Basel<ref>Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 620 (v. 2)</ref>
|
|
1527
| Philo (Latin)
| Sichardus
| first part published by Iustianus (1520)<ref>David T. Runia, Philo in Early Christian Literature: A Survey</ref>
|
1533
| Diogenes Laertius
| Basel, Froben
| Complete Greek text<ref>http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/diogenes_laertius.htm</ref>
|
| Euclid, Elements
| Simon Grynäus
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|
1544
| Sozomen
| Robert Estienne
|
|
1544
| Josephus
| Hieronymus Froben
| Edited by Arnoldus Arlenius; first Greek edition
|
1552
| Philo (Greek)
| Turnebus
| for works only extant in Latin mss see 1527, works only in Armenian Aucher (1822–26)
|
1549
| Optatus of Milevis
| Johannes Cochlaeus, F. Behem<ref>http://ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/2373.html</ref>
| Mainz; 7th book printed 1569<ref>http://www.forum-hes.nl/forum/main_stocklist.phtml/subject/85/1/Africa.html</ref>
|
1553
| Synesius
| Adrianus Turnebus
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1558
| Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
| Xylander
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1562
| Sextus Empiricus
| Geneva
| Latin translation of Sextus's "Outlines", published by Henricus Stephanus, followed by a complete Latin Sextus with Gentian Hervet as translator in 1569.<ref>Richard Popkin (editor), History of Western Philosophy (1998) p. 330.</ref> Petrus and Jacobus Chouet published the Greek text for the first time in 1621.
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| Sefer Yetzirah
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1569
| Nonnus
|
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1572
| Plutarch
| Henri Estienne<ref>http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Plutarch_(Biographer)</ref>
|
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1575
| Diophantus
| Xylander
|
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1583
| Martyrologium romanum
|
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1598
| Longus
|
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From 1601
Date
| Author, Work
| Printer (or location)
| Comment
|
1615
| Laonicus Chalcondyles
| J. B. Baumbach
|
|
1644
| Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
| Abraham Wheelocke<ref>Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - LoveToKnow 1911</ref>
|
|
1655
| Theophanes the Confessor
| J. Goar<ref>CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Theophanes</ref>
|
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1661
| Hippolytus, Antichrist
| Marquard Gude
|
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1733
| Genesius
| Stephan Bergler
|
|
1750
| Chariton
| Pierre Mortier
|
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1841
| Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Trattato di Architectura
| Carlo Promis
| Promis, however, published only six of the seven books. The last book which deals with all kinds of mechanical devices was omitted and subsequently escaped the notice of historians of technology for the next hundred years.<ref>Ladislao Reti, “Francesco di Giorgio Martini's Treatise on Engineering and Its Plagiarists”, Technology and Culture, Vol. 4, No. 3. (Summer, 1963), pp. 287-298 (288)</ref>
|
1850
| Hypereides
| Churchill Babington
|
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1897
| Bacchylides
| F. G. Kenyon
|
|
| Rigveda
| Max Müller
|
See also