Books printed in Greek in the sixteenth century

Titlepage of Herodotus' Histories, printed by Aldus Manutius (Venice, 1502) named after the nine muses whose names appear on the page in Greek and Latin.

Preface of Musaeus' Hero and Leander, printed by Aldus Manutius (Venice, 1495-1497). The preface is written by the printer, in Greek.

First page of Constantine Lascaris’s Greek Grammar book, explaining the Greek alphabet. Printed by Aldus Manutius (Venice, 1494-1495).

Page of Chrysoloras' Greek grammar book, bearing handwritten annotations. Printed by Arnao Guillén de Brocar (Alcalá de Henares, 1514)

Page of Girolamo Aleandro's Greek grammar book, with figures analysing the Greek alphabet. Printed by Gilles de Gourmont (Paris, 1518)

Greek grammar. The Greek Alphabet from Nicolaus Clenardus' Institutiones absolutissimae in linguam Graecam. Printed by Thomas Richard (Paris, 1557)

First page of the Lord's Prayer. Inter-linear, Latin-Greek text. in Nicolaus Clenardus, Institutiones ac Meditationes Graecanicae. Printed by André Wechel (Paris, 1566)

Titlepage of John Chrysostom's Opuscula Divi Chrysostomi Graeca, edited by Erasmus of Rotterdam and printed by Johannes Froben (Basel, 1529). It bears the title of the book in Latin and the printer's mark

Preface of Aristophanes Frogs, written in Greek. Printed by Johannes Froben (Basel, 1525)

Titlepage of Epistolae Graecae elegantissimae, ex diversis autoribus diligenter selectae. Printed by Thierry Martens (Leuven, 1520)

First page of text from Homer’s Ilias. Printed by Rutgerus Rescius voor Bartholomaeus Gravius (Leuven, 1535)

First page of Exodus in Greek, from Tης θείας Γραφής παλαιάς δηλαδή και νέας Άπαντα. Divinae scripturae, veteris novaeque omnia. Printed by Wolfgang Köpfel (Strasbourg, 1529)

The first page of the Greek text in Karl Kieffer’s Greek-Latin edition of Luther’s Catechesis from Martin Luther, Κατήχησις/ Catechesis. Printed by Karl Kiefer (Strasbourg, 1586)

Titlepage of Plato's, Σωκράτους Απολογία. Pro Socrate defensio. In usum scholarum seorsum excusa, in Greek and Latin. Printed by Antoine Bertram (Strasbourg, 1590)

First page of text of Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Περί συνθέσεως ονομάτων, προς Ρούφον. De compositione, seu orationis, partium apta inter se collocatione, ad Rufum. Printed by Robert Estienne (Paris, 1547)

First page of Pindar's Olympian odes interleaved and with annotations. In Olympia, Pythia. Nemea, Isthmia. Printed by Franciscus Raphelengius of the Plantin Press (Leiden, 1590)

Titlepage of Aristotle's On the Cosmos, written in Latin. Printed by Franciscus Raphelengius of the Plantin Press (Leiden, 1591)

Page of Euclides’s Optics and Catoptrics with mathematical theorems. Printed by André Wechel (Paris, 1557)

The first page of Aristotle’s Categoriae, Greek text and Latin translation in parallel columns and notes. In Organum: Hoc est libri omnes ad logicam pertinentes. Printed by the heirs of André Wechel (Frankfurt, 1592)

Titlepage of Gregory of Nyssa's Two Orations, bearing the title in Greek and Latin. Printed by Ernst Vögelin (Leipzig, 1564)

Titlepage of Synesius’s Liber De insomniis, with the title in Greek and Latin. Printed by Frederic Morel, whose mark can be seen in the middle of the page (Paris, 1586)

First page of text in Greek and Latin of Arrian, Περί αναβάσεως Αλεξάνδρου Ιστοριών βιβλία η’ / De Expeditione Alexandri Magni Historiarum libri VIII. Printed by Henri Etienne (Geneva, 1575)

One of the final pages of Eustathius’s Commentary on the Illiad, with the Greek script arranged in an interesting shape by the printer, Antonio Blado (Rome, 1542)

Titlepage of Plutarch's 'On Listening to Lectures', with the title of the book in Greek. Printed by John Legat (Cambridge, 1595)

Edward Grant, Της Ελληνικής Γλώσσης Σταχυολογία/ Grecae Linguae Spillegium, London, 1575, Henry Bynneman & Francis Coldock: titlepage bearing the title of the book in Greek and Latin