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Zu den ersten Drucken, die Aldus Manutius der Ältere (1449/1450-1515) in seiner venezianischen Offizin herstellte, gehört die illustrierte Ausgabe des von Musaios (5. Jahrhundert n. Chr.) stammenden Epyllions (episches Gedicht), das in 343 Hexametern die tragische Liebesgeschichte von Hero und Leander erzählt. Der Text ist im Druck in griechisch und in lateinischer Übersetzung enthalten. Strittig ist das Erscheinungsjahr der undatierten Inkunabel - die Jahre 1494, 1495, 1497 oder 1498 kommen in Frage - und auch, ob die Aldine vor oder erst nach der Musaios-Ausgabe von Lorenzo de Alopa in Florenz erschien. Aldus Manutius, innovativer Typograph und exzellenter Philologe, war zu seiner Zeit - neben Filippo Giunta - der bedeutendste Verleger klassischer, vor allem griechischer Werke und schuf 31 Editionen, die durch relativ großen Auflagen - insgesamt 60.000 Exemplare - auch ein breiteres Publikum erreichten. Manutius entwarf und benutzte insgesamt vier verschiedene griechische Drucktypen, für die er jeweils den Duktus eines zeitgenössischen Kalligraphen zum Modell nahm. // Autor: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Abteilung für Handschriften und Alte Drucke // Datum: 2019 Englische Version: This illustrated edition of the epyllion (epic poem) by the Greek poet Musaeus (also seen as Musaios, late fifth century-early sixth century) relating the tragic love story of Hero and Leander is one of the first editions produced by Aldus Manutius the elder (1449/1450-1515) in his Venetian printing workshop, the Aldine Press. The book contains the text of the poem in the original Greek in 343 hexameters, and a Latin translation. Aldus Manutius was an innovative typographer, an excellent philologist, and, together with Filippo Giunta, one of the most important early printers of classical literature. He specialized in the editing and publishing of ancient Greek texts (31 editions). His relatively large print-runs, amounting to a total of around 60,000 books produced by his press, made these texts available to a wide public. Manutius worked closely with Francesco Griffo, a punch cutter and type founder from Bologna, to create their first Greek fonts. They designed and used four different sets of Greek printing types, each of which was modelled on the characteristic hand, and sometimes idiosyncratic abbreviations, of a contemporary calligrapher. The types used for the edition of Musaeus's verses are Manutius's earliest Greek font, which imitated the handwriting of Immanuel Rusotas, a Greek professional scribe who worked in Venice beginning in 1465. The respectable philological quality of the Aldine editions is partly due to Manutius's cooperation with the scholar Markos Musuros (or Mousouros), but modern research has shown that the constitution of Musaeus's text was the work of the printer himself. Which manuscripts he used is unknown. The Latin translation of the work also can be attributed to Manutius, as is attested by an autograph preserved in France. The copy presented here belonged to the library of Hartmann Schedel and came to the Munich Court Library in 1571 as part of the collection of Johann Jakob Fugger. // Autor: Kerstin Hajdú
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