The earliest Greek editions and their cost in the Iberian Peninsula: evidence from the copies of the first Greek press (Venice, 1486)

The current survival of pre-Aldine Greek editions in the Iberian peninsula is limited to ten editions and thirty-six copies. Significantly, among these, only one was issued in Venice prior to 1495, when Aldus Manutius opened shop: a Psalterium, published by two Greek clerics, Laonikos and Alexandros, in 1486. Two copies of this edition are currently in Madrid, Biblioteca Complutense, and Salamanca, Biblioteca Universitaria, while a third copy, now in Cambridge, Trinity College was once in the Augustinian monastery of Santa Cruz in Coimbra. All three copies are rich in provenance history, but the copy currently in the Biblioteca Complutense is also likely to bear unique information to the cost of this edition, thus making it a crucial piece of evidence for the history of early Greek book trade